News & Insights

Partnership offers helping hand as retirement village residents provide grief response

As National Grief Awareness Week brings the eyes of the world on to the subject of grief, loss, and how we cope, we investigate the five-year National Lottery funded partnership between the ExtraCare Charitable Trust and Cruse Bereavement Support.

ExtraCare partner with West Midlands Fire Service

The ExtraCare Charitable Trust are delighted to announce that we have joined forces with West Midlands Fire Service and are now a recognised partner under the Primary Authority Scheme.

Retirement village residents honour bygone era with Remembrance Day display

An ExtraCare retirement community has honoured Remembrance Day with a collaborative display involving staff and residents.

Birmingham retirement residents are ‘proud to be’ this Black History Month

ExtraCare’s Pannel Croft Village came together to honour Black History Month this October with an emotional exhibition

Innovative palliative care findings discussed at European conference

ExtraCare's Head of Research, Innovation and Customer Insight, Shirley Hall, joined an online European conference on palliative care, submitting ExtraCare’s findings to attendees.

ExtraCare welcomes three new trustees

The three trustees will help guide the strategic development of ExtraCare by providing inspirational and insightful leadership as members of an enthusiastic and committed Board.

Compassionate Communities for Extraordinary Circumstances: Report into bereavement support during the Covid -19 pandemic launched.

The results of a project looking at bereavement during a pandemic have been released today. The Covid -19 pandemic has meant that our experience of grief may be different, particularly when our normal rituals are affected or unavailable.

£60m state-of-the-art care and health village in Bournville now complete

Following a seven year regeneration project, master-planned by Bournville Village Trust, College Green - a £60m state-of-the-art care and health village, that is home to ExtraCare’s Bournville Gardens Village - has now completed.

Why ExtraCare is encouraging people to talk about death and bereavement all this week

Dying Matters Awareness Week is a national campaign, encouraging people to talk about death, dying and bereavement.

Eighty-nine-year-old uses lockdown to craft over 250 bespoke door plaques for his Birmingham neighbours

A grandfather has created more than 250 bespoke wooden number plaques for each of the residents living at ExtraCare’s Longbridge Retirement Village in Birmingham. Each plaque features his own hand drawn and painted individual wildlife artwork.

ExtraCare joins coalition to urge the Prime Minister to make the UK a world leader in housing with care

xtraCare has joined a coalition of more than thirty charities, older people’s representatives, policymakers, academics, and private sector and civil society leaders to, this week, urge the Prime Minister to take immediate action to expand new options that sit between the traditional care solutions of care homes, and receiving care at home – with there now being “a new consensus that the 2020s need to be the decade of housing-with-care”.

Older people helped to reconnect with charity’s ten ‘Steps to Connection’

Older people across the country can now benefit from a new resource developed by The ExtraCare Charitable Trust. Produced in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Steps to Connection is an interactive guide to building stronger, more satisfying community for those aged 55+.