Persona Care and Support

13/11/2025

It's been over a week since Halloween and we still aren't over the fright!

Spooky baking, skeletal trifle and terrifying costumes....we urge viewers of a nervous disposition to take care and look at your own risk!

alt text: photos of people at halloween parties dressed up as witches, skeletons and axe murderers. Photo of a trifle with skeleton arms poking out the top, cupcakes and biscuits with spider, ghost and melted face decorations. Photo of a happy halloween wall display covered in handmade black cats, pumpkins and ghosts. Persona logo is at the bottom along with Elms and Hoyles Community Centres, Grundy Hub and Escape.

11/11/2025

Are you a carer for a friend or family member?
Find out if you can claim money to top up your income.

If you spend time looking after a relative or friend who has an illness or disability, you may be able to claim money to top up your income.

See if you can claim Carer’s Allowance:
https://bit.ly/CarersAllowanceGM

11/11/2025

These beautiful poppies were made by people at Hoyles to go on the wall of remembrance at Mill Gate, Bury.

You can visit the wall throughout November or go to Mill Gate's page for photos and video of the finished display.

Mill Gate have donated some money to the Royal British Legion for each poppy on the wall.

alt text: photo of a man and a woman holding poppies up and smiling to camera with more poppies on a table in front of them. Two photos of the poppies laid out on a table so you can see that some are felted, some covered in buttons, some made of paper, plastic and beads. One photo also shows a flyer explaining that the poppies will also raise money for the Royal British Legion.

10/11/2025

Are you a carer?
Know your rights, use your rights!
Get advice and support (and cake!) at this Bury Carers Rights celebration event on Wednesday 19th November.

🌟 Carers Rights Celebration Event 🌟 📅 Wednesday 19th November 2025 🕥 10:30am – 1:00pm 📍 Bury Masonic Hall, 25 Parson's Lane, Bury BL9 0LY

Bury Carers’ Hub will host a special event to mark Carers Rights Day – an annual opportunity to raise awareness of carers’ rights and the support available to them.

✨ This year’s theme: “Know your rights, use your rights!” ✨ It’s all about empowering carers to understand and access the help they are entitled to.
https://www.n-compass.org.uk/get-support/carers/bury-carers-hub Bury Carers' Hub

09/11/2025

What makes a good friend?
We've had lots of fun chatting about what we appreciate in our friends and decorating our friendship flowers at Grundy Hub Get Social.

If you're over 50, join us to meet new people, whether you want to get involved in the activities and outings on offer or just have a quiet chat or a read in the corner.

Refer yourself or a loved one, or contact us for more details. You can even come for a free taster session. https://www.personasupport.org/our-services/grundy-hub/

alt text: six photos showing men and women working alone and in groups, colouring in paper flowers and adding what makes a good friend to the petals. One photo is a close up of a woman holding her brightly coloured, finished flower and smiling to camera.

07/11/2025

When Alex was old enough to leave care, Bury Shared Lives and Children's Services worked with him to get support that was just right for him as he got his first job. His foster mother, Susan, is now his Shared Lives carer.

Along with Bury Council Children's Services and Shared Lives Plus Community, we're supporting young people leaving care.

Whether you're
- a young person in care
- a foster parent
- keen to support care leavers by becoming a Shared Lives carer
find out more here https://personasupport.org/news

05/11/2025

What a party!
Bolton Road shared these action shots of them celebrating our 10th birthday with dancing, balloons and very special decorations that everyone helped to make.

alt text: five photos, two slightly blurred and showing different groups of people dancing and one of people waving streamers and dancing while they sit in chairs. The other photos show a six foot tall ring of coloured balloons with a banner saying 'awesome since 2015' and one of some homemade bunting and a sequin design that spells BRCC 10. The Bolton Road and Persona logos are at the bottom

03/11/2025

Avril had a happy reunion with Kiki the parrot, when she visited her at Elmhurst.

Kiki brightened up everyone's day, not just Avril's, and she showed off some impressive dance moves too!

alt text: photo of a lady sitting in a chair with an African Grey Parrot on her shoulder and another photo of the parrot perched on the wrist of another person who is out of shot.

01/11/2025

Isaac's moved house and his new neighbours welcomed him with a party!
Congratulations Isaac, we hope you're happy in your new home!

30/10/2025

Spooky times this week at Elmhurst, when people from Elton came to join them in a Halloween pumpkin carving competition!
Congratulations to our winner, Joe and runner up Lynda.

alt text: two photos of a group of men and women sitting around a table carving pumpkins. Photo of a lady sitting behind her pumpkin with a runner up rosette on the image. Close up photo of a spookily ragged pumpkin with a winner rosette on the image. The Persona logo is at the bottom.

28/10/2025

This month's winners of our Living the Values Recognition award are:

Joanne Barnard
Lisa Edwards, Emma McBride and Steve Hannaby-Williams
The Ramsbottom Team
Regina Ogwuegbu

Congratulations to you all and to everyone who has had a High Five this month!

Our winners have been chosen (by a panel of people we support and managers) from everyone who was given a High Five over the past month.

Seen something amazing at Persona this month? Anyone can give a High Five here https://tinyurl.com/TellUsP

alt text: video with text appearing: congratulations to our High Five winners! Above the text is our REACH logo and in the background are faded blue diamond graphics. At the bottom is the 10 year Persona logo with a diamond.

26/10/2025

Elmhurst and Escape have raised £551.73 for Macmillan Cancer Support with their coffee mornings!

Well done to everyone who baked, organised and sold and thank you to the devoted cake lovers who supported the events and helped us raise these funds.

alt text: four photos of cakes laid out on tables for sale. One has a card on it that reads 'I'm hosting this coffee morning for all of our loved ones affected by cancer' . There are lemon drizzle cakes, brownies, mud cakes and raffle prizes on show too.