News & Events
We’ve learned that residents flourish when they can keep doing what they’ve always done, so our focus is on providing all of the facilities and opportunities for our residents to enjoy living their life to the full, their way.
Our wonderful facilities and varied Activity Programme allows our residents to try new things, meet new people, and create relationships with those in the local community. Keep up with the latest news and events at The Porterbrook Care Home.
Lots of Fun and Activities for The Queen’s Jubilee
In June, we really enjoyed celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee alongside our residents and all of their friends and family members. We really took full advantage of the […]
A Day of Seaside Activities
Typical British weather meant a change of plans for our seaside day and many of the activities had to be moved inside due to it being so windy, […]
Spring Has Sprung At The Porterbrook
The outside area surrounding The Porterbrook Care Home have become more colourful than ever now that spring is in full swing. Many of our residents have contributed to […]
Pancake Day Has Come to The Porterbrook
On Tuesday the 1st of March, the residents at The Porterbrook Care Home enjoyed celebrating Pancake Day by making pancakes, talking about their favourite traditional toppings and of […]
Completing the 28 Mile Challenge for Alzheimer’s UK
We are thrilled to announce that The Porterbrook Care Home successfully completed the 28 Mile Challenge for the Month of February by walking a total of 30.9 miles […]
A Love-Filled Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day was a special day at The Porterbrook Care Home. As Valentine’s Day is about showing your love and appreciation for those you care about, the staff […]
Interview with BBC Radio Sheffield
On Thursday 17th February 2022, we were delighted to have an interview with BBC Radio Sheffield at our home here at The Porterbrook. The purpose of the interview […]
Residents Enjoy an 80s Inspired Day
Towards the end of January, the residents and staff at The Porterbrook Care Home enjoyed an 80’s inspired day. The staff and residents dressed up in the brightest […]
Christmas at The Porterbrook
Everyone at The Porterbrook Care Home enjoyed many Christmas festivities throughout the month of December. The home has been beautifully decked out with Christmas decorations and we want […]
Staff profile: Head Housekeeper, Laura Liversidge
Laura has worked as Housekeeper at The Porterbrook since it opened in 2016, and now leads a team of five dedicated and professional domestic/laundry staff. Laura has gained […]
Brenda’s Reminiscence Road Trip
Brenda arrived at The Porterbrook earlier this year to recuperate following surgery with some respite care. Initially her stay was for four weeks. Brenda explained: “I was looking […]
Be on the look-out for our flyer…
Neighbours in our local community should keep their eye out this week for an informative leaflet coming through the door – telling you all about what you can […]
Delighted with our carehome.co.uk review score of 9.2!
At the Porterbrook, we offer exceptional levels of residential care every day. Person-centred care is at the heart of everything we do. Being part of carehome.co.uk means we […]
Our Chef “braves the shave” and raises over £700 for local cancer charity
We’re delighted to say a massive congratulations to one of our Chefs, Tina Carrick, who shaved her head in a bid to raise hundreds of pounds for Weston […]
The show must go on!
We have been finding new ways of keeping our residents entertained throughout the Coronavirus outbreak and we thought we would share it with you! We took the early […]
Celebrating Elf Day to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society
Porterbrook Staff dressed as elves to raise funds for charity. As part of the Alzheimer’s Society ‘Elf Day’, our staff unleashed their ‘inner elf’ by dressing as Santa’s […]
It will be homely this Christmas at Porterbrook
Our residents will be treated to a range of activities and events this Christmas! The festive activities will get under way when saxophonist Richard Francis plays on 17 […]
Bollywood comes to The Porterbrook
We had a taste of India recently when a Bollywood dancer came in to entertain our residents. Isha treated our residents to an afternoon of dancing, music and […]
Arts & Crafts
Our residents got their paint brushes out recently at a specially-organised arts and crafts day, culminating in a wonderful display of works. The day of sketching and painting, […]
Seaside Trip
Our residents had fun ‘beside the seaside’ recently on a trip to the seaside town of Cleethorpes. The residents enjoyed all the attractions of a traditional seaside resort […]
Green Fingers
Our residents are getting ‘green fingers’ at their new gardening club. They’ve been getting busy planting a range of trees, shrubs and flowers in the grounds. There are […]
Our Royal Wedding
Our residents got into the spirit of the Royal wedding last weekend. We held a Royal afternoon tea with entertainment and refreshments the day before Prince Harry wed […]
Supporting Our Local Hospital During Winter Pressures
We are helping our local hospital to beat the effects of winter pressures by making 10 of our 44 beds available to Northern General Hospital in Herries Road. […]
Audrey Is Our Number One!
When Audrey Denton needed residential care she came with her son Chris to visit The Porterbook and liked the place so much that Audrey became our first resident! […]
Creepy Crawlies
Our residents got up close and personal with some exotic visitors recently. Our Care Staff organised for ZooLab, a company which runs animal handling workshops, to visit our […]
Open Day Success
Our residents were in fits of laughter at our open day… Ventriloquist and comedian Andy Greaves, who has appeared on BBC’s ‘Families at War’ with Vic Reeves and […]
Open Day 21st November 2017
Join us at our open day on the 21st November 2017 between 10am-4pm To celebrate the relaunch of The Porterbrook we’re hosting an open day on the 21st […]
2017 Activities
We’ve had a busy time here at The Porterbrook! From museums to singers to pumpkin carving we’ve been having a great time! Take a look at our photographs […]
Cupcake & Care Day
To celebrate National Care Home Open Day and in association with The Alzheimers Society, we invite you to join us for Cupcakes and Care! We will be open […]
The Porterbrook named in top 20 recommended care homes by top care home website
We are very pleased to announce that a leading care home website has name our home in their Top 20 Recommended Care Homes in Yorkshire and The Humber […]
Doors Open Days: April 2017
We’re hosting a number of Open Days this month, taking place from 10am – 4pm on Thursday 27th, Friday 28th and Saturday 29th April. Join us for a […]
Easter at The Porterbrook
We were delighted to welcome visitors, residents and members of the community to The Porterbrook last weekend for our Easter Cream Tea and Children’s Easter Egg Hunt. The […]
Easter Family Fun at The Porterbrook
We’re delighted to open our doors to the local community for an Easter Family Day, with Cream Tea and Children’s Easter Egg Hunt, on Saturday 15th April from […]
Festive Lunch & Celebrations
We are delighted to host a free festive lunchwith all the trimmings along with some fantastic entertainment to our retired friends and neighbours, some of whom may be […]
Opening Soon!
Find out about the wonderful facilities we have at The Porterbrook. Situated in the leafy suburbs of Crosspool, Sheffield, The Porterbrook is a newly developed Care Home offering […]
We Welcome You to Contact Us
If you’d like to get in touch to find out more about our care services and life at The Porterbrook Care Home, we encourage you to contact our Manager, Sheilagh Sweeney on 0114 266 0808 or email manager@theporterbrookcare.com. You can also use our online Enquiry Form to send us a message and one of the team will be in touch. We look forward to speaking with you.