TWO multi-million pound care facilities are set to open in Flintshire in the near future. Almost £9m has been invested into a 32-bed extension at Marleyfield House care home in Buckley to boost the number of residential places Flintshire Council has available. The expansion will also provide additional beds to be used by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board for patients who are ready to be discharged from hospital but are unable to return home yet. Work on the project is expected to be completed in May, with new residents set to move into the facility in June. Meanwhile, Flintshire’s fourth extra care scheme in Holywell is due to open imminently.
A LOCAL social housing company has donated boxes full of food and other items to several North Wales foodbanks in its Reverse Advent scheme. ClwydAlyn Housing s Reverse Advent Calendar sees staff members and residents in supported living facilities donate an item each day throughout November ready to deliver to a local food bank in early December. This means food banks will have time to make up food parcels and distribute the contents before Christmas. This year s scheme has been a huge success, with enough items collected to benefit nine North Wales foodbanks. The company collected the items at each of its supported living facilities in North Wales, and to allow staff that have been working from home the chance to donate, the company set up a PayPal donation page - which raised over £70.