Welcome to Peregrine House Residential Care Home, Whitby.

Peregrine House exists to give fun, enjoyment and fulfillment to our residents, in a new chapter in their lives, whatever their capabilities.

Our team will, generally successfully, attempt to engage residents in a whole host of activities from craft activities, making everything from greetings cards to place mats and coasters and on to decorating pottery items and beyond.

These items are often given as gifts by the residents to relatives or may be sold by the residents at our annual garden fete held to raise money for St Catherine’s Hospice.

Some residents like to spend time with our gardener who has built raised beds for both flowers and for vegetables, to make it easier for residents to participate in gardening.

In the summer months and again at Christmas bus trips are organised in the summer out into the countryside with stops for and to enjoy the Christmas lights in the town in December.

Singers, theatre groups and other entertainers visit the home, some weekly, and we celebrate everyone’s birthday with a present from the Home, special birthday cakes and a get together.

Every day, in rotation, throughout the year is one individual resident’s “special day”. The individual resident can specify what they would like to do on that day and the staff will make this happen. Some gentlemen may like to go to the pub or to watch a football match. One lady likes to visit her sister in her home rather than always being the one who is visited at Peregrine House, easy to organise but very important to this lady. The requests are many and varied and we make things happen for the residents.

In addition to all of this, the staff, management and visiting professionals provide the necessary dietary, physical, mental and spiritual care required by residents. Oh, and behind the scenes, managers and staff maintain all our documents and records that are equally important in achieving our “excellent” and “three star” rating from The Care Quality Commission, which was retained at our most recent inspection in December 2009.