Rose Lodge Care Home in Wisbech welcomes firefighters for community coffee morning

Care home residents in Wisbech were pleased to hear more about what an average day looks like for the area’s firefighters during a recent visit.

Rose Lodge Care Home welcomed guests from Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service to its community coffee morning.

Firefighters met the home’s residents and visitors to speak about their day-to-day lives in the fire service and news from the local community while enjoying tea and cake together in the home’s café area.

The mayor of Wisbech Cllr Sidney Imafidon, Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, and parishioners from St Peter and St Paul Parish Church in Wisbech also attended the morning.

The guests enjoyed a selection of fresh cream scones and a variety of cakes prepared by the home’s head chef.

Meg Jones, general manager of Rose Lodge, has now extended the invitation throughout the local area.

She said: “We can’t thank the local fire brigade enough for visiting us today. It’s been a wonderful morning.

“To say thank you for all of the great work our emergency services do for us, we here at Rose Lodge are inviting all members of the police, ambulance and fire services to pop in and take their duty break on us for free.

“We are pleased to offer all of our local service workers who stop in tea, coffee, juice, chilled water, delicious homemade cake and biscuits and a healthy selection of fruit, available free of charge.”

The home provides residential care, nursing care and dementia care for 56 residents from short-term care to long-term stays.

Reporting by Cara Fiore