Celebrating Summerset’s Frontliner Day 2025

Frontliner Day (21 March) is Summerset’s annual celebration day recognising the staff working in our villages. You can read why they’re so special on our live gratitude wall.

What is a frontliner?

A frontliner is anyone who works in a village and interacts with Summerset residents daily – our wonderful caregivers, nurses, diversional and recreational therapists, service coordinators, kaitiaki, office staff, property and gardening teams, activities coordinators, kitchen/café staff, housekeepers and those working in our laundries.

It takes many skilled and dedicated people to create an amazing retirement village, and even more to make it a home. From providing care to cooking tasty food, designing lovely gardens, organising activities and so much more. Our frontliners really do it all!

Along with some gifts that we’re giving out today, we’ve made a gratitude wall in each village for staff, residents and families to share heartfelt messages of thanks with our frontliners. We’ve also made a virtual wall so everyone can be involved in the day’s celebrations, from wherever they are. You can view the Summerset Gratitude Wall here.