Berrystead Care Home Is Now Welcoming New Residents

and peaceful setting for all to enjoy. Loved ones of many families in Syston and the neighbouring towns and villages have enjoyed residing at the Home during the 58 years of its existence, many of whom reminisce about the good times their loved ones once enjoyed living at the Home. Similarly, individuals and families from the local communities have served and worked at Berrystead. The Home is located within a few minutes’ walk from Syston and is in a convenient location for family and friends to visit.

Long recognized as an integral part of the community, generations of families within Syston are no strangers to the name ‘Berrystead’. Set in over two acres of private grounds and off the main road, the Berrystead Care Home offers longterm Residential Care and also provides short-term Respite and Day Care.

In 1965, the original house became a care home for 12 residents. The Home today is registered to provide care for 46 residents. The current providers who have owned and run Berrystead for 22 years, having acquired it in August 2001, have taken pride in the Home’s long legacy of service to the community.

and privacy of the person being cared for. We offer choices in all aspects of personal care, home cooked meals, a wide range of activities and entertainment.

Our residents play an important role at Berrystead and are encouraged to personalise their rooms how they want it, so they feel very much at home. The original building already offers the feeling of `home’ in all places with the large and cosy lounge, the well-spaced dining room leading into a bright and well-lit veranda which offers a relaxing place to sit and look out into the garden and enjoy the sights and sounds of wildlife both day and night.

The long private driveway leading up to the building places the Home away from the main road and the

We look forward to continuing to provide loving care to all those who

The original building benefits from all of its historical features which have been sympathetically restored by the current owners for the enjoyment of residents. With its high ceilings, oak floors and stained glass windows, Berrystead gives its residents a nostalgic, homely feel from the moment they walk through the doors. Our ethos is that good and loving care is given with kindness and compassion, respecting the dignity vast mature, private gardens and landscapes offer a tranquil need it and we sincerely believe that their stay at Berrystead Care Home would create an endless ripple of an enriching life.

Our Team at Berrystead is always on hand to answer any questions and take enquiries. Please get in touch to find out more!

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Consider what would it mean to be able to cope with panic attacks or deal better with the challenges in life, control your weight with a virtual gastric band. Get on top of exam nerves, phobias, stop smoking or get rid of the fear of public speaking. Even the NHS and NICE recognise based on sound research, that hypnotherapy is effective in treating IBS, PTSDand other disorders.

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How would it feel if you could make a positive change in your life?

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This what clients have said about their experience.

Here’s what CK said about her experience of Solution focused therapy: I’ve suffered with severe depression for years. After a few sessions I felt alive again and I’m making positive changes in my life.

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About me, I’m Maxine Smith I’ve lived in Syston since 2005, with three decades of ironing starched hats, wearing capes and now scrubs it’s been a career fast forward of ‘Call the midwife’ in a nutshell. I’ve accumulated a wealth of experience working within the public sector, private businesses and manufacturing

Over the last 13 years English Couture Company has been trading from a little shop on the Green here in Syston.

I run the shop and have been living in Syston for most of my life. At the end of August I will be retiring. The shop will close on Friday 1st September at 4pm. I have loved trading here in Syston and it has been a joy to meet the residents of Syston either in the shop or on my sewing courses.

I will be open from Tuesday 29th August to Friday 1st September for you to come along for the last time to buy your sewing supplies.

Thank you to everyone who has shopped with me. I’m looking forward to my retirement and will probably still see people when I’m around the town.

Michelle Pye

Celebration for Fr. Clement

On Sunday 13th August, there will be a Mass for Fr. Clement to mark the occasion of his 20years of Priesthood.

The Mass will commence at 11.00am and will be followed with a grand celebration including light refreshments from 12.30pm in the Church Hall.

On Wednesday 5th July, I met with Fr. Clement Orang’o and Tony Monteiro, the chairman of the church celebration committee to talk about his time in the Priesthood and his eight years here in Syston.

Fr. Clement began by asking me to thank everyone he has met inside and outside the church here in Syston for making him feel very welcome and he is very happy to be working here. He said that when he first arrived he was nervous about how he would be received within the community. Being African he anticipated a negative reaction, particularly following in the footsteps of Fr. Anthony, but found quite the opposite.

He has found that every service he has officiated at whether it is a funeral or a baptism people appreciate him and thank him.

Fr. Clement was ordained on 16/8/2003 in the parish of Kisii in Kenya into the Comboni Missionary and he worked in

Fr. Clement showing the new roof the first time the whole roof has had to be replaced.

He feels privileged to be a part of the church and to have been able to enable the new roof to be put on that will out live us all.

Egypt for two years, Sudan and South Sudan for a further three years. Then Bishop Malcolm invited him to come to Syston to take over from Fr. Anthony. He has a profound need to serve people of the church across the world and found some cultural differences between here and other areas he had been, one was the length of Mass, in Kenya it is two hours whereas here it is an hour. He has a deep interest in all religions and likes to learn about them.

Since being at Syston he has taken part in three sponsored walks to raise funds for the church, the first was in 2016 when he walked 20 miles in Rutland and was joined by some parishioners for part of the way, he raised nearly £10,000 for the retired priest funds. His second and third walks were to raise £3,000/4,000 for roof repairs and then in 2023 he completed another 20 mile walk and helped raise a total of £45k with the aid of the wider community to enable a new roof to be put on the Church in May this year. Fr. Clement was so proud of the result of these fundraisers, he would like to thank everyone who sponsored or donated. He explained that the church was built in 1948 and that it was a straight building, later the wings were added and this is

He welcomes everyone to the sacraments whether they attend regularly or not. He also enjoys the social side of the church being involved with BBQs, Quiz nights, fairs, games and Bingo. During Covid he set up a live streaming from the church to the parishioners to help them through those difficult times, these have been appreciated by all. He wanted to thank his neighbours for being so good and he finished by saying how inspired he is by people’s faith, being strong and dedicated.

Tales from the plot August

August is the month when we start to notice the gradually shortening days. It can also be a humid month, creating ideal conditions for powdery and downy mildew to strike

Courgettes, sweet peas, lettuce and squash are all very susceptible to mildew,along with a number of other crops and fruit trees.If you mix one part milk with two to three parts water and spray liberally, while the science behind this solution isn’t fully understood, I’m told it works rather well, especially on courgettes, melons and cucumbers. It is believed that naturally-occurring compounds in the milk not only combat the disease, but also boost the plant’s immune system. We will see.

Now is the time to tidy up your strawberry bed and replace any plants that are more than three years old with fresh ones; also remove dead leaves to improve airflow around them. There are still quite a few things you should be sowing in August - spring cabbage and chinese cabbage which can be grown as late crops, as well as hardy lettuce. Although we think of lettuce as a summer crop, it is a surprisingly hardy plant and under a cloche or in the greenhouse can easily be available for a Boxing Day salad rather than some tasteless import from sunnier climes. Sow spring onions like White Lisbon which are winter hardy and will grow, albeit slowly, to add zing to that salad along with some fast growing radishes. Your runner beans will be at the top of the canes now so pinch out their growing tip to encourage bushier growth below, pick all runner, climbing and dwarf beans regularly except for the haricot varieties such as borlotti where we want the bean rather than pod for table.

Stop tomato plants now to encourage fruit to swell and ripen, stopping is the process of cutting off the growing tip so the plant’s energy is not diverted into foliage from fruit. Keep your tomato side shoots in check, you want tomatoes not masses of foliage, ensure they are watered regularly, drying out prevents the plant from taking up sufficient calcium and the deficit causes blossom end rot.

There’s a bountiful harvest to enjoy with a vast range of crops now in season, it’s a real joy to pick sun-warmed produce straight from your plot, giving an unrivalled feeling of satisfaction after months of sweat and toil. Happy growing!

Regards Richard Thorpe

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Syston Police News

Your local Beat team:

SERGEANT 4438 ATKINS

PC 1651 STOWELL

PC 4290 JOHNSON

PCSO 6053 KING

PCSO 6098 HARRISON (part time)

Greetings from your Beat team.

As we have now moved into the warmer part of the year, we would like to remind the community to keep good crime prevention habits.

Ensure your homes are left secured and locked up. Leave your home looking occupied. Look out for your neighbours. For parents/carers who have children ensure you know who they are with, where they are going out and what they are up to.

Warn them about the dangers of water and teach them to stay out of any kinds of water.

Warn them of the dangers of entering unknown property’s such as abandoned buildings, it may look tempting to your children but there are several health and safety risks and dangers of entering these types of derelict buildings.