Services come together for VE Day celebrations
There was cause for reflection and celebration last Friday as our Your Choice Barnet services took part in VE Day celebrations. At Flower Lane, our service for people with Autism, staff and customers came together [...]
COVID-19 information for customers
The COVID-19 situation is changing regularly. Individual services will be in touch with parents and carers with the latest information that applies to them. For the latest on The Barnet Group's response to COVID-19, and [...]
Ansell Court shortlisted for design award
The Barnet Group's service for older people, Ansell Court has been shortlisted for a Housing Design Award. Ansell Court is a dementia-specific, housing with care development comprising 53 one and two-bedroom apartments and communal facilities. [...]
YCB now recruiting
Your Choice Barnet are now recruiting for a number of positions acroiss our services. Ansell Court Extra Care Service Three full time (equivilant) senior support workers Dell Field Court Care Home Three full time (equivilant) [...]
Service users bring the festive cheer
Service users from Your Choice Barnet's CommunitySpace service helped transform a Christmas tree at All Saints' Church in Childs Hill. All Saints' Christmas Tree Festival gives local people or organisations the opportunity to sponsor and [...]
Merry Christmas from Flower Lane
Recently, the nation got behind Christmas Jumper Day with great enthusiasm - and staff and service users from Flower Lane proved to be no exception... donning their most festive knits to raise money for Save [...]
Ansell Court development recognised for its beautiful design
Our flagship extra-care scheme Ansell Court has had a very busy 2019; being officially opened by the Mayor of Barnet; the stories of the residents moving in and now a shortlist for an award. If [...]
International Day of Disabled Persons – celebrating YCB’s Plot 52!
Across our Your Choice Barnet Services, there are many amazing stories about our staff and service users. Since as today is the International Day of Disabled Persons we thought it would be a good opportunity [...]
Something spooky going on at Your Choice Care residential home
Staff and service users at Apthorp Residential Home experienced some hair-raising sights last Thursday, but we are pleased to report it was all in…good humour. Residents of the care home were all geared up to [...]
Ansell Court resident celebrates the big 105
When you reach 100 years of age, the Queen sends you a birthday card and then one every year from that! One resident who recently moved in to a new extra-care scheme – is about [...]
Flower Lane at the Gamez
For the past nine years, the children and young people of the Grahame Park have enjoyed an annual sporting event on its Concourse. But in recent years, the flock from Flower Lane have been making [...]
CommunitySpace enjoy their summer party
CommunitySpace's parties are renowned at Your Choice Barnet for having some of the best entertainment and a real feel-good factor. This August, Community Space held their annual Summer Party, with an international twist! The service [...]
Eamon McGoldrick appointed as board Chair
The Barnet Group is pleased to announce that Eamon McGoldrick has been appointed as our new chair. Eamon has over 40 years’ experience in housing management, having started at the Greater London Council as a [...]
Wonderful times at Woburn
Flower Lane staff, parents and carers work hard throughout the year on fundraising, through fairs, raffles and other events. Some of the money raised, by Flower Lane Action Group, contributes towards trips for service users [...]
Fremantle care homes become Your Choice Care
From the 8th July, 3 Residential and 2 Day Care Services for Older People transferred from the Fremantle Trust to Your Choice Barnet and is now known as Your Choice Care. The services that have [...]
Friendly Fifty is a hit at Flower Lane
Golden Retrievers are dogs that are known for their sweet sociable temperament – which means they are a very popular choice as therapy dogs. One local resident, Rhona, has been visiting our Flower Lane Day [...]
R Bensons do a fine job for Rosa Morison
Barnet Homes contractors R. Bensons recently helped Rosa Morison get their Hydrotherapy pool up and running again by saving the day with a quick turnaround on an essential repairs job. The Hydrotherapy pool stairs at [...]
Young Onset Dementia Project launches at Ansell Court
As part of marking Dementia Awareness Week during 20-26 May, our new extra-care scheme Ansell Court launched the Young Onset Dementia Project. What is Young Onset Dementia? According to The Alzheimers Society, Young Onset Dementia [...]
CommunitySpace goes to market
For several months, green-fingered staff and service users from CommunitySpace have been growing plants, fruits and vegetables at an allotment in Barnet. The team have been hard at work and have actually turned the 'fruits [...]
Deaf Awareness Week at CommunitySpace
What it is like to exist in a world with no sound? What most people don't realise is that deafness affects a lot more than just your hearing - it can actually have an impact [...]