Sunbeam News

This is a little musical video from the Outreach Programme South, (Tracey, Sally ,Mat, Trish, Larry, Marie, Catherine Rebecca and Anne Kavanagh) that the service users and families of the south outreach programme poured their hearts and hard work into.  Thank you all for all your support in having a great outreach programme which brought along a lot of learning, communication, fun and growth.

Recently received documents from the HSE around resumption of Adult Disability Services – Framework for the Resumption of Adult Disability Day Services and Reshaping of Disability Services for 2020 and Beyond, have been most informative and very useful to us. Sunbeam had already begun its planning for post Covid-19 services.

We have started reconfiguring our structures – where services are delivered from, who and how they will be delivered and what amount of services are possible given the distancing requirements we will be required to adhere to. Our team of professionals have stepped up to the immediate challenges imposed since March of this year and they are once again stepping up to the plate for the new reality of post Covid-19 life in residential, day and respite services.

Our clients are central to all our thoughts and we are working hard to ensure they will receive the best supports we can deliver in best way we can.

Thank you to all our valued clients, supporters, staff, HSE and HIQA, it really is very much appreciated.

Watch the 2 videos and try it for yourself!

Recipe underneath.

Banana Bread Recipe

Resources:

Mixer or hand mixer alternatively a bowl and wooden spoon

Standard loaf tin

Greaseproof paper

Ingredients

140g softened butter

140g caster sugar

140g self raising flour

1tsp baking powder

2 large eggs, beaten.

2 ripe bananas, mashed

50g icing sugar

Chopped walnuts / dried banana chips.

Method

· Preheat the oven to 180C fan or gas mark 4

· Grease and line a loaf tin

· Cream the sugar and butter together until light and fluffy

· Slowly add the eggs to the bowl. Add a spoon of the flour if the mixture starts to separate.

· Fold in the remaining flour, baking powder and the bananas.

· Pour the mixture into the tin and bake for 30 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.

· Allow to cool in the tin for 10 minutes then turn out on to a wire rack and leave until completely cool.

· Mix the icing sugar with 2-3tsp of water to make a runny icing.

· Drizzle the icing across the top of the cake and add walnuts/banana chips.

Ed made this for Hill view house out of pallets and put everyone’s name on it. He finally got to plant it today .
Stay safe everyone thanks ED.

Ed really wanted to say a brief message of courage during lockdown.

He also wanted to share one of his favourite songs.

We think Stephen did a great job to sign along to Katy Perry’s song ROAR while in lion costume.