Introduction from Peter Kinsey

Thank you for reading the first edition of our Iris Care Group newsletter.

It’s been an exciting time for all of us as we have been working hard to combine Holmleigh Care and Ludlow Street Healthcare to launch our new organisation, Iris Care Group.

While the process has been challenging at times, it’s been fantastic to see our staff working together to support this merger and form a strong foundation and vision for Iris Care Group. We were delighted to see the creative ways you celebrated the ICG launch in your services, and I’d like to thank you sincerely for your support and enthusiasm for our exciting new future.

This newsletter is shorter than our past newsletters, but this is only because there are still a lot of projects still to complete and these have to be our primary focus. However, we look forward to growing the newsletter. We have been really pleased to see how we are receiving more and more stories about the great work you have been doing and this is an area we will want to expand.

We also need to decide what we call our new newsletter. For the moment we have called it ‘In the Know’ but we want to hear what you think we should call it. Look out for the details of our newsletter naming competition which we are hoping lots of you will enter.

We are also launching a summer competition for the services which make the most use of their outdoor garden space, whether that be planting more flowers, growing vegetables, or decorating the space to make it a more fun place to be.

I’d like to thank you all for your continued hard work during this time –your support, dedication, and ideas have been instrumental in shaping our new organisation, and I am incredibly proud of everything we have achieved so far.

I am confident in the positive new direction Iris Care Group is already taking, and I look forward to a bright future improving the lives of the people we support with all our brilliant teams.

Peter Peter Kinsey Chair & Chief Executive