Kirkby House Colleagues host Easter egg huntColleagues and friends of HC-One’s Merseyside care home. Kirkby House, have helped to organise a local event, an Easter egg hunt across two local parks in the community for the children. 

The inspiration came from a walk in the park where Colleagues noticed a child picking up a book and reading it after a lady left it there in the park for children to read. To see the joy on the child’s face finding the book, sparked an idea. After finding out more about it, they discovered that this happens regularly whereby people leave books around the park for other people to read and once read they would put them back.

As Easter was just around the corner, Colleagues used their own money and bought two hundred Easter eggs to hide in two of the local parks in the Kirkby area. Once the word spread about the idea, people started to donate Easter eggs for the massive hunt.

One local lady, who has four foster children, said "The children’s faces lit up when they saw the Raster eggs and realised the Easter bunny had been.”

The Residents at Kirkby House thought it was a wonderful idea and loved to see all the pictures of the children on their Easter egg hunt and findings

One Resident said, “So beautiful to see. Well done!”

Home Manager, Tracey Conlin, remarked, “I am so proud of the staff always working to help the community.”