Care-home residents will enjoy an organ and hymn sing-along, visiting carol singers, a Christmas feast and a New Year’s Eve party.

The festive events have been planned at Meadowcroft Care Home in West Bowling, Bradford, with the help of a donation from the Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Founda-tion. Joanne Harris, of YBS, nominated the care home for a donation after she and her colleagues helped raise the funds by holding a quiz.

She said: “When a member of our team’s elderly mother came to stay with her, the staff at Meadowcroft couldn’t have been more helpful, providing advice and lending her equipment to make her mum’s stay more comfortable.

“This was just a small gesture to repay some of their kindness.”