CARE HOME WORKER IS NAMED CHARITY CHAMPION

Staff and residents at Cubbington Mill care home in Royal Leamington Spa, are celebrating because their wonderful colleague, Amy Melia, has been named Foundation Champion for the Midlands and North West division in the Barchester Care Awards 2025. The Barchester Charitable Foundation supports older people and other adults living with a disability or mental health condition by helping them to connect or re-connect with others in their local communities.

The Barchester Care Awards celebrate the staff who go the extra mile for the benefit of the 13,500 residents living in Barchester’s 267 care homes and private hospitals across the country. Categories range from ‘Team of the Year’ and ‘Carer of the Year’ to ‘Dementia Care Champion’ and ‘Activities Coordinator of the Year’.

Over the past 12 months, brave Amy competed in not one but two gruelling challenges to raise funds for Barchester’s Charitable Foundation. In September 2024 she completed the punishing Great North Run, her first ever competitive race. Then in June 2025 she took part in the mammoth Tour de Barchester four day team cycling event which this year started in Dumfries, continued through Cumbria and Lancashire and finished in Cheshire covering over 225 miles via 17 different Barchester homes. Collectively through these two daunting events, Amy raised a whopping £3,880 for the Foundation.

Divisional Sales & Marketing Manager, Amy Melia, said: “I can’t believe I have been named the winner for the Midlands and North West! I am so proud and so thankful to everyone who nominated and voted for me. It means the world to be recognised for doing something I am so passionate about. The Foundation does such vital work, I’m so happy I was able to challenge myself to take part and in doing so help to support so many people.''

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