Floral gifts from a local supermarket are helping spread some Mother’s Day joy at a Solihull care home.

Sainsbury’s in Mell Square, Solihull, is donating free flowers to Royal Star & Garter, which are being used by residents and those using the care home’s Day Care service for flower-arranging activities.

Royal Star & Garter is a charity which provides loving, compassionate care to veterans and their partners living with disability or dementia. It also has Homes in Surbiton and High Wycombe, and services which reach out into the community.

The supermarket’s regular gifts to the Solihull Home comes after an approach by Day Care Coordinator Louise Taylor, who visited her local store in February. She said: “Sainsbury’s said they’d be able to donate flowers for our flower-arranging activities on a regular basis. It brings a lot of joy to the residents and Day Care users, and a lot of colour and enjoyment to the Home. We’re very grateful to Sainsbury’s for these ongoing donations and their generosity.”

The floral arrangements are taken home by Day Care users, while residents put them on display in their rooms, in communal areas, or gift them to other people living in the Home.

Day Care user Joyce said: “I really enjoy the flower-arranging sessions, I feel relaxed when I do it, and I think it boosts my sense of calm and wellbeing. It also brings so much colour and beauty to the Home.”

Day Care is available to Armed Forces veterans, including those who did their National Service, and their partners, and includes dedicated days for people living with early-stage dementia.

Royal Star & Garter in Solihull was rated as one of the best care homes in the country following its last Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection, and is welcoming new residents. For more information on this, Day Care and other services it runs, or to work at the Home, go to www.starandgarter.org/solihull.

Any businesses, community groups, schools, trusts and foundations that would like more information about supporting the charity can go to https://starandgarter.org/how-you-can-help/our-partnerships/