27/05/2026
South Tyneside Extra Care receive positive feedback
When you receive these pictures from one of your team you just can't help but smile and share 🙂
The Team at our South Tyneside Extra Care received this lovely handmade card from Tom one of our service users today and we do not think his words could say it any better in outlining a journey back to recovery. With his permission he has asked that we share this, in his words ‘tell the world’.
‘I really appreciate everything you've done since I moved here. I know it's been a journey and a half for all but otherwise we'd be knacked. 😂Life is like snakes and ladders, we roll the dice, sometimes go back to square one, it's testing right? I am so very grateful and can't thank you all enough for your professionalism, especially when you bend over backwards to help out. On the front page is where I need to get back to. You're all amazing and making the dream work.’
Tom is a service user who lives in our Bramble Court Extra care scheme. He was placed in a care home despite being only 50 years old following a stroke that left him with weakness,. He is an electric chair user and would ensure he was out of the care home most days, he was then relocated to Bramble Court as an Extra care setting was a better fit for him and his needs. He is a great singer and has an incredible career singing in lots of different locations and events. His main goal is to get back doing what he loves the most , which is to be on the stage.
He supports other service users in the scheme to get together by arranging events he has arranged the VE day celebrations, organises parties for other service users birthdays and he holds a karaoke night every Saturday he also organises singers to play in bramble every Monday. He is also currently organising a charity fundraising event at Bramble Court on 28.08.2026. The team have described him as a gentleman with a heart of gold.
Thank you to our Team in South Tyneside Extra Care scheme and to Tom for all the incredible things he also does 💜
