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2015.
NEWS RELEASE: Balhouse Ruthven Towers team up with Cheeky Monkeys for Zumbathon
MEDIA INVITE & PHOTO CALL: 2.00-3.00pm, Saturday 8th November 2015 at Balhousie Ruthven Towers Care Home, Abbey Road, Auchterarder, Perthshire, PH3 1DN.

·         Join the residents and staff at Balhousie Ruthven Towers Care Home as they host a sponsored Zumbathon with local nursery, Cheeky Monkeys.

Balhouse Ruthven Towers team up with Cheeky Monkeys for an extra special Zumbathon

 

It’s going to be Strictly Come Zumba at Balhousie Ruthven Towers Care Home in Auchterarder this Saturday as staff and residents team up with a local nursery, Cheeky Monkeys, for a sponsored Zumbathon.

 

The energetic event, taking place from 2.00pm – 3.00pm on Saturday 8th November, is being organised as part of Ruthven Tower’s intergenerational project, a community initiative to bring together the young and old so they can learn from each other and develop together. Any money raised will be split between funding for the nursery and a comfort fund for the residents at the Care Home.

 

Staff, residents, families as well as children and members of the Cheeky Monkeys team are looking forward to showing their Zumba moves at the event. Yvonne McKenzie, Home Manager at Balhousie Ruthven Towers Care Home, commented:

 

“Our intergenerational project is very important to us at Ruthven Towers and we are delighted to be able to host an event like this alongside Cheeky Monkeys Nursery to bring together the young and old for some dancing with a difference. Enabling generations to connect in this way offers the people involved an opportunity to build a knowledge and appreciation of each other that may not have been possible if not for initiatives such as this.”

 

Balhousie Ruthven Towers Care Home is a restored former country house hotel which has been lovingly converted to provide its residents with a spacious, comfortable and safe environment where they can feel at home. 

 

To find out more about Balhousie Care Group visit www.balhousiecare.co.uk

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For further information, contact Anna Gunn on 01738 700135 or email a.gunn@volpa.co.uk

NOTES TO EDITORS

Balhousie Care Group aims to become the most admired and respected provider of residential care in Scotland.

The group was founded in 1991 by Tony Banks, who recognised that the number of good care facilities available in the North-east at the time was limited and that the standards in some homes were below normal expectations.

Tony decided this was an opportunity to fill the void by opening a residential care home that provided undisputed excellence by way of the facility itself, the staff it employs, the management ethics, and most importantly, the level of genuine care that would aim to meet the expectations of both residents and family members.