The Knowles / Services
Our Catering Service
 The Homes tasty and nutritious meals are freshly cooked in our kitchen along with delicious homemade cakes made by our caterers. Hot and cold breakfasts, 2 hot main meals and 2 hot desert choices, hot and cold tea choices are on offer daily.
The main meals, desserts and hot tea options are prepared by our catering partner, Apetito, who’s Head Chef, Phil Rimmer, won the Craft Guild of Chefs Award in 2010. The meals are prepared for The Old Vicarage using quality fresh ingredients in Apetito’s catering kitchen, then immediately fast frozen to lock in freshness and delivered to us to be cooked in our kitchen.
Apetito brings to the table a consistent high quality extensive menu, with their Dietician and Nutritionist ensuring that the National Association of Care Catering standards are met. Provision for a large variety of dietary needs, including special diet options is made, along with full nutritional declarations, and information on dietary suitability for all meals.
Your menu choice
The daily midday menu is displayed early in the day on the menu notice board in the entrance hall. The Menu is varied each day, we have a varied Menu choice for Breakfast, Lunch & High Tea. All our meals are freshly prepared in our own kitchens.
Other facilities we provide:
- Hairdressing salon
- Consultation room for meetings with Doctors etc, in privacy
- Landscaped gardens with seating
- Visitor parking
- Choice of assisted baths or assisted showers
- Regular mobile library visits including large print books
- In house laundry service for your personal washing
Sensory gardens
Our sensory gardens with lots of colours, shapes, movement, scents, tastes and textures, provide a tranquil, relaxing atmosphere. Professionally designed, in conjunction with the national disability and gardening charity Thrive, to benefit and enrich the lives of residents, especially those with dementia or Parkinson's who’s senses which may have dulled with age by stimulating: sight, sound, smell, taste and touch.
The garden is safe for the disabled with planting beds, pots, bird bath and bird table at a functional height for wheelchair users.
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