Residents' Shed at Auburn House Wins Award
Posted by Ngaire Cannon
on Oct 17, 2012
Last Friday Gordon Cheyne, Brian Reid and I attended the presentation of the Better Projects Awards at Auburn House, along with dignitaries from Aged Care Victoria and St Vincent’s Hospital, and their photographer.
Auburn House was awarded two of the coveted Better Project Awards, one for their Residents' Shed and the other for a Tranquility Garden. There were more than 170 entries for the awards. Only 51 met all the criteria including 19 from Victoria, and so it was a significant achievement for Auburn House to win two awards, and they are understandably thrilled. RCH was recognised for making The Shed possible, and the management and staff are all hugely grateful to our club.
Auburn House is a Residential Aged Care Home for psychiatric and geriatric residents. The facility is colourful and inviting, and the environment is richly experiential and stimulating. The staff are angels, warm, cheerful and so very patient with their aging residents. The Shed project is managed by Bill, originally a volunteer at Auburn House and now employed to direct the Shed activities. They mostly concentrate on mosaic work, and evidence of their delightful art can be seen in the entrance foyer, on outside walls, and on pots and a pedestal in the Tranquility Garden.
Danielle Harris is the Lifestyle Coordinator at Auburn House and was the driver of both projects. She has a photo of Noel Halford on her wall, taken at the cheque handover in 2006. If he had been able to attend on Friday Noel would have been very proud, and we were honoured to accept the recognition on his behalf.
I would like to acknowledge PP Noel Halford for his support of the Auburn House project in 2006 and congratulate him on the very positive outcome, and the resultant benefit to the residents of Auburn House. Danielle is working on her future wish list and some of her plans sound very much like the kind of projects RCH could happily support.
Auburn House was awarded two of the coveted Better Project Awards, one for their Residents' Shed and the other for a Tranquility Garden. There were more than 170 entries for the awards. Only 51 met all the criteria including 19 from Victoria, and so it was a significant achievement for Auburn House to win two awards, and they are understandably thrilled. RCH was recognised for making The Shed possible, and the management and staff are all hugely grateful to our club.
Auburn House is a Residential Aged Care Home for psychiatric and geriatric residents. The facility is colourful and inviting, and the environment is richly experiential and stimulating. The staff are angels, warm, cheerful and so very patient with their aging residents. The Shed project is managed by Bill, originally a volunteer at Auburn House and now employed to direct the Shed activities. They mostly concentrate on mosaic work, and evidence of their delightful art can be seen in the entrance foyer, on outside walls, and on pots and a pedestal in the Tranquility Garden.
Danielle Harris is the Lifestyle Coordinator at Auburn House and was the driver of both projects. She has a photo of Noel Halford on her wall, taken at the cheque handover in 2006. If he had been able to attend on Friday Noel would have been very proud, and we were honoured to accept the recognition on his behalf.
I would like to acknowledge PP Noel Halford for his support of the Auburn House project in 2006 and congratulate him on the very positive outcome, and the resultant benefit to the residents of Auburn House. Danielle is working on her future wish list and some of her plans sound very much like the kind of projects RCH could happily support.