Residents came together to celebrate receiving a much-needed upgrade to their communal kitchen.
Mulberries in Braintree is one of Eastlight’s Housing for Older People schemes, offering accommodation to residents over 55-years-old. These apartments often include communal living facilities, such as a shared lounge, kitchen area and gardens.
Mulberries is home to more than 40 residents and overseen by on-hand Eastlight colleagues who make sure all their needs are met.
Although individual kitchens at the scheme were recently refurbished, Eastlight staff wanted to add a bit of flavour to the building’s communal kitchen.
Following ongoing feedback and engagement with colleagues, residents were thrilled to find out that work would finally begin in May earlier this year.
With a community barbeque planned for August, our teams got straight to work, doing all they could to make sure the kitchen was dished up just in time for the special event.
Completed on time and designed to meet their delights, residents loved the new look and equipment – which included fresh cupboards, decoration, a new oven and dishwasher – digging straight in to use the facilities for their summer celebration.
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"The kitchen is fantastic. We're over the moon"
said long-time scheme resident, Mo, at the barbeque.
Fellow resident, Wendy, said: “I’m planning on doing a Christmas dinner in the new kitchen – its good we’ve got the big dishwasher now. I like to celebrate any festival, weddings, bar mitzvahs, you name it!”
We can't wait to dig in at Wendy's future cook-outs...
