News 24-12-2020 Rapid antigen testing pilot restores 'human touch' for Christmas visits A rapid antigen test trialed at a St Monica Trust care home helped relatives reconnect with their loved-ones over Christmas.... Read Article
News 16-12-2020 National survey launched to learn pandemic's impact on retirement housing sector Ground-breaking research project launched to study impact of Covid-19 on retirement villages and extra care housing schemes across England.... Read Article
Blog 30-10-2020 Understanding Care: A Handy Guide to Care Types Residential care, respite care, nursing care – what’s the difference? With so many variations when it comes to the types... Read Article
News 27-10-2020 Community development funding to tackle pandemic’s hidden impact on older people’s lives Trust’s community development funding aims to help older people safely re-engage with their communities during the coronavirus pandemic.... Read Article
Blog 21-10-2020 What is a Retirement Village? The term retirement village can be quite confusing - what exactly does it mean? Here we explain what to expect... Read Article
Blog 12-06-2020 When Zoom Doesn't Fit: An Alternative to Video Calling Video calling doesn't suit everyone. We spoke to retirement village art tutor Onny about repurposing business teleconferencing favourite Meetupcall for... Read Article
News 12-06-2020 The Rainbow Letter Project: Intergenerational Penpals When Chloe returned from university to live with family in Bristol during lockdown she decided she would do something to... Read Article
Blog 28-05-2020 Celebrating Volunteers' Week - with Jane Langley Usually carrying out up to 100 visits to older people in our communities every week, our team of volunteers is... Read Article
News 14-05-2020 Old People's Home for 4 Year Olds repeats on Channel 4 Filmed here at the St Monica Trust, the award-winning first series of Old People’s Home for 4 Years repeats on... Read Article
Blog 23-04-2020 Social connection at St Monica Trust during COVID-19 We recently shared with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Integration about all the hard work our team is putting... Read Article