Winter News 2023
As always, there’s plenty going on at Red Deer Village, the over 50s residential retirement park in Stepps, Glasgow. There’s been charity events, new staff, retiring staff, and of course, the epic annual Christmas lights switch on! So below are the highlights of our winter news update for 2023.
Christmas Lights Switch-on
Thank you to everyone who came to the Christmas lights switch-on on Friday 1, December. We hope everyone enjoys the park lit up for the festive season. We also hope everyone enjoys the new decorations around the park. These include a sleigh, deer, train and a new teddy! We were delighted to welcome special guest, Santa Claus, to the lights switch-on this year, and we hope everyone enjoyed bringing their grandkids to meet him. To watch the switch-on live, click below to see our YouTube channel!
Christmas Present Donation to Fare Scotland
As tradition, we donated our Christmas presents to be distributed to kids in the local area who otherwise may not get a gift. We donated £300 worth of presents to Fare Scotland on 1 December. We also received many donations from residents, so thank you to everyone who participated.
Christmas Lights Competition
We are blown away this year by everyone’s Christmas lights efforts! There were some excellent contenders, and it was almost too difficult to choose! After careful consideration, the winner for this year’s Christmas lights competition is, for the third year in a row, Roseann Anderson in Cedar Crescent! We’d also like to give special mention to some other amazing efforts that caught our eye this year, pictured below.
Top Left & Middle – Roseann Anderson, Top Right – Elaine & Cliff Collins
Centre Left & Middle – Raymond & Margaret Williams, Centre Right – Ian & Ellen Morton
Bottom Left – Ann & Arthur Glen, Bottom Centre – Ian & Roseanne Connell, Bottom Right – Margaret & John Daly
Macmillan Coffee Afternoon 2023
On 29 September, we celebrated our annual Macmillan Coffee Afternoon.The event was attended by residents, their families and friends. Tea, coffee, home baking and store bought goods were available to all. The event included a “Guess the Number of Faces” game, won by resident, Mary Shaw. We ended the afternoon with a raffle. We managed to raise £364.52. Red Deer Village donated an additional £300.00, bringing the total raised for Macmillan Cancer Support to £664.52. Thank you to everyone who donated, baked and participated, we couldn’t have done it without you all!
Charity Donations – Winter News 2023
This winter, we have managed to raise £35.95 for Alzheimer Scotland, £62.46 for British Heart Foundation, £68.19 for Butterfly Trust and £39.82 for Children in Need. Thank you to everyone who donated. Our charity boxes sit at our coffee bar. We welcome donations from anyone enjoying a beverage in the hub.
Staff Update
Alistair’s last bus trip destination was to Clyde Valley at the end of November. We hope you all enjoyed the day out. Alistair will be retiring from Red Deer Village at the end of December. We thank Alistair for all of his support and faithful service over the last 8 years, and wish him a happy retirement.
Our new office manager, Veronica, started with us on Wednesday, 6 December. You may have seen her if you have visited the hub recently. We wish her the best of luck, and hope you will all make her feel very welcome.
Hub Events
The hub has recently held a quiz night in both October and November, and a cheese and wine night in October, to allow new residents to get to meet their neighbours, and old neighbours to have a catch up. Our next hub event will be the residents’ Christmas party on Saturday, 16 December.
MSP Visit
Our MSP, Fulton MacGregor, visited Red Deer Village lately to hand out some letters to residents. If he did not catch you, he left some spares at the hub in case anyone would like to collect one. We hope many of you managed to spot him to catch up on anything you might have had outstanding, or just to say hello!
Nature Spotting – Goldfinches
One of our residents, Sandra Wilson, took this excellent picture of goldfinches at her feeding station. We love to see wildlife around Red Deer Village’s retirement park. It helps to see that our David Bellamy Conservation Scheme efforts are paying off.
Phase 4 Update
Red Deer Village have new residential park homes for sale, with phase 4 development running smoothly. We have welcome homes such as the Omar Ikon, Image, Colorado and Wessex Canford. As always, you can find out more about our over 50s retirement park by calling or emailing us. A member of our friendly team will be happy to help!
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