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Flower Power Helps To Buy Special Equipment For Care Home
Sainsbury’s supermarket at Hessle decided to “say it with flowers” when they stepped in to support the local HICA Riverside Grange care home.
Staff at the care home were able to sell hundreds of bunches of flowers donated by Sainsbury’s and raise money to help buy residents state-of-the-art equipment designed to stimulate their senses.
The flower sales raised half of the £2400 required to purchase a Vecta multi-sensory station, which can be moved from room to room at Riverside Grange, enabling residents to see and touch vivid moving colours in fibre optic cables, and also watch columns of colourful balls rise and fall.
Staff at the care home, on Hessle High Road, can also project rotating images onto walls to display calming scenes or photos from bygone years to help the elderly residents recall their past.
Riverside Grange Manager Nancy Brown said: “It’s wonderful that Sainsbury’s have stepped in with such a generous gesture. They are continuing to provide flowers so we will be able to raise more money and buy further sensory equipment. The flowers are on display throughout the home, and visitors and staff can buy them by making a donation.”
Sainsbury’s Hessle supermarket Produce Department Manager Danny Ruben said: “We are delighted that we have been able to develop links with Riverside Grange and look forward to providing continued support.”
Pictured here: Riverside Grange care home staff Josie Johnson and Barbara Smith are pictured with Sainsbury’s Produce Department Manager Danny Ruben.