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Hope
Hope
John Buxton
Dementia Concern Charity
Hope Springs Eternal
Dave Miller
Essex Equipment Services ( Essex Cares Limited)
Hope
Barbara Sheldrake
Unpaid Carer
Two Strangers Dance
Mariana Acosta
Care Professional
Colour the Rainbow
Amanda Clare
Barchester Health Care
The World Says Your Different
Rebecca Northcott
Potens UK
Today my Carer Visits
John Buxton
Dementia Concern Charity
I Heard the Birds Singing This Morning
John Buxton
Dementia Concern Charity
Margaret, Doris, Olive and June
Sam Bailey
Black Swan Care Group
Will You Hold my Hope?
Beth Hendry
Milestones Trust
Winner:
Hope Springs Eternal
Dave Miller
Essex Equipment Services ( Essex Cares Limited)
Humour
Hilda’s Pandemic Poem
Matthew Pound
Barchester Health Care
Isolation Musings
Elizabeth Murphy
Barchester Health Care
Hip Hip Horray Vera (a resident from Barchester Health Care)
Barchester Health Care
I’m Feeling Lost and Lonely
Angela Bookham
Care UK
A Time in Life
Team of residents led by Lifestyle Leader, Louise Light
Hallmark Care Homes
A Lancashire Lock Down
Derek Keever
Bethphage UK
Lockdown Loop
Debbie O’Hagan
No Place Like Home
How I Desire to Be Free
John Buxton
Dementia Concern Charity
A Cough
Nicola Hulland
Barchester HealthCare
Crescent Court Lockdown
Natalie Wedge
Caretech UK
Winner:
Isolation Musings
Elizabeth Murphy
Barchester Health Care
Isolation
I’m Busy Now
Kathrine Denton
Hill Care Group
Isolation
Carole Pearsall
Tixover Grange
Light
Carole Simpson
St Thomas Complex
Her Frail Hands Reach Out to Me
Sallie Brown
Care UK
Forget the Pain of Lonely Days
Jennifer Barry
Birtley House Nursing Home
Three Weeks into Lockdown
Butterfly White
Harlow Wellbeing Hub
Strange Times Part Four
Sarah Ward
London Borough of Newham Adult’s Social care
Alone in Isolation
Wendy Freeman
Isabel Hospice
Walk on
Stephen Taylor
CareTech Community Services Ltd
Indoors we Need You to Hide
Samera Jones
Black Swan
Winner:
I’m Busy Now
Kathrine Denton
Hill Care Group
Observation
Observation
John Buxton
Dementia Concern Charity
COVID Run
Theresa Mead
Care UK
Please Help This End…
Nicola Adams
Care Professional
I Wish I Could Show
Emma Spike
Potens UK
Snowdrop House
Michelle
Care UK
I Don’t Know Why
Julie Sixsmith RGN
Hill Care Group
A Hole in my Sock
Amanda Stuart
Potens UK
A Day at Cubbington Mill
Gerald Waterfield
Barchester Healthcare Cubbington Mill Care Home
These Last Few Months
Carole Pearsall
Tixover Grange
Thank you to the People
Samantha Bailey
Black Swan Care Group
Winner:
COVID Run
Theresa Mead
Care UK
Uplifting
Uplifting
Jackie Chillingworth
Barchester
The Window
Daniel John Lim
Lifestyle Lead
The Masks I Wear
Rachel Dark
Winash Rest Home
Together With Covid
Karen Olivant
Barchester Healthcare
The Beginning of the End
Heather Brown
No Place Like Home
Our Caring Army Still Fight Together
Annie Bardo
The Kent Autistic Trust
Whilst the Rest of the World Grinds to a Halt
Emma Rutterford-Dawkins
Care at Home Services
Another Day Begins
Nathan Scripps
Castlemead Court Care Home
Dear Friends
Sally Day
Barchester Healthcare
Trying Times of Covid19
Sarah Bhatti
Signature Senior Lifestyle
Winner:
The Window
Daniel John Lim
Lifestyle Lead
Reflections
Reflection of a Carer
Sharon Ireland
Guardian Homecare
Safe?
Zulekha Makda
St Annes community services
So This is How it Feels to be a Hero
Michael Beaney
Hill Care Group
Pride
Tom Lyons
Black Swan Care Group
COVID-19
Richard Blunden
St Annes community services
Looking Back
Lisa Cullen
Care UK
Life Before Lockdown
Gerard Wainwright
St Anne’s Community Services
Untitled
Angela Bookham
Care UK
I Want to be a Nurse
Maxine Noble
Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle
What Does it Mean to Care?
Lisa Stubbings
City Care Services Ltd
Winner:
Reflection of a Carer
Sharon Ireland
Guardian Homecare
Loss
Light in the Dark
Nicola Hulland
Barchester HealthCare
Memories
Resident of Alice Grange Care Home
Barchester
Fallen Angel
Wendy Freeman
Isabel Hospice
The Heart of the Tree
Geraldine Beaney
Hill Care Group
We Will Remember Them
Geraldine Beaney
Hill Care Group
Monday Mourning
Elspeth Newton
Barchester Health Care
COVID-19 You Crowned Yourself a King
Lidiya Chirisah
Vida Grange
Today This Room Is Vacant
Alison
Riverdale Court
She Wasn’t Alone
Chloe Booth
Barchester Health Care
The Night They Told Me, My Mind was Numb
April Place
Pallion Family Practice GP Surgery
Winner:
The Heart of the Tree
Geraldine Beaney
Hill Care Group
Bravery
A Nursing Managers Hardest Request
Sarah Milnes
Woodleigh Christian Care Home
Bravery
John Buxton
Dementia Concern Charity
Through a Resident’s Eyes
Sara Pierce
Black Swan Care Group
Please Don’t Forget Me
John Buxton
Dementia Concern Charity
I Am Not a Nurse
Nichola Cunningham
Care Professional
Vulnerable Hero
Joy Berdugo
Threshfield Court Care Centre
Covid – Here’s a Haiku
Nicola Hulland
Barchester HealthCare
There Was Not A Lot of Humour Then
Carole Pearsall
Tixover Grange
Yes There is Fear
Asad Bin Abdullah
Chosen Care Group Ltd
A Force Unknown was Coming…
Frances Burtt-Webb
The Abbeyfield St Albans Society Ltd
Winner:
A Nursing Managers Hardest Request
Sarah Milnes
Woodleigh Christian Care Home
Bereavement
The World is in Mourning
John Buxton
Dementia Concern Charity
I Knew That Day
Derek Keever
Bethphage UK
Angel
Jo Jordan
Care UK
Bereavement In Our Sorrow
John Buxton
Dementia Concern Charity
For Those Loved and Lost
John Buxton
Dementia Concern Charity
Tribute to My Residents
Colette Moreira-Henocq
Care UK
Pathway Way to the Light
Alan Bulmer
Palmersdene Care Home
COVID Not the Death of Us
Sue Ann Nnamani
PWH Nursing Home
Observation
Carole Pearsall
Tixover Grange
Winner:
Tribute to My Residents
Colette Moreira-Henocq
Care UK
Recovery
United Together
Kelly Sanders
Potens UK
Recovery
John Buxton
Dementia Concern Charity
Virus Has Shaken the World Totally
Aravindan Sumaithangi Sambasivam
Care Professional
Spirit in the Hills
Simon Whalley
Birtley house Nursing Home
A Journey Together
JoJo Beard
Birtley House Nursing Home
I Love What I Do
Monjila Khatun
Adult Social Care for London Borough of Newham
Hang on Positively Everyone
Caroline Whalley
Birtley House Nursing Home
Our Rainbow Will Shine
Dawn Borno
Vida Healthcare
Hope In Our Heart
Emma Burnett
Sunderland GP Alliance Medical Practice
Earth is Healing
Jude Emmanuel-Ukato
Care Professional
Winner:
Recovery
John Buxton
Dementia Concern Charity
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