Service users at ASC are getting their creative juices flowing thanks to a new knitting and sewing group! Anne Foulds, Activities Coordinator, set up the group to help the service users socialise, enjoy a blether and a cup of tea and develop their skills. This week, they have loved taking [...]
The Hut at ASC is always a hive of activity – and service users have been getting busy giving old furniture a new lease of life. Lee and Raymond, two of the service users at ASC, transformed an old dining room chair with help of Jen and Anne, Activities Coordinators, [...]
ASC is supporting its service users to live independently within their communities thanks to cooking classes organised by staff. Laura McKechnie, Acting Senior Support Worker at the Dalguise centre, hatched a plan to host Come Dine With Us, where the service users are able to cook their own evening [...]
ASC service user, Danny, had a fantastic day out watching his beloved Celtic thanks to the club’s sensory room. Sponsored by Balhousie Care Group and operated by Celtic FC Foundation, the room in the Lisbon Lions Stand at Celtic Park provides a safe space for people who would not otherwise [...]
Our fantastic service-users at ASC have taken a little downtime after the busy-ness for their Christmas sale last week. Partytime took the form of singing, dancing... and festive food too of course, as it should! There was also a Christmassy Pass the Parcel and then, once their DJ Billy [...]
So many fabulously horrible halloween parties across Balhousie Care yesterday - we just had to share some of the spookily superduper photos. Including our unique specialist care facility, ASC in Balbeggie, Perthshire where our fantastic residents love to celebrate Halloween to the max - complete with coffin and a [...]
With the clocks going back soon we'll be heading into winter. Soon it'll be time to look towards the new year. And calendar time has long been on the minds of our fantastic service users at ASC. They've been drawing together some wonderful photos to capture the year for [...]
Team ASC are always up for a challenge and this Autumn is no different. A few weeks ago, with the leaves starting to turn and the hay bales ready for collection, Activities Coordinator Anne Foulds and two service users, Liam and Robert started their fitness journey, taking up the [...]
As part of award-winning Balhousie Care group, ASC enjoyed their 30th Birthday bonanza yesterday, but it also marked their goodbye to much-loved staff member, Lead Nurse, Jessica Reid, leaving to return to her native Australia. The party was set to mark the anniversary of Balhousie Care Groups' 30 years [...]
It’s almost time to join the next series of bakers in the tent for the Great British Bake Off (GBBO)! Yeay! But no one knows when yet. Boo. Going off the series in 2021, it' likely to be the end of next month. So if, like us, you can't [...]
