Activities at Braeburn Lodge Care Home
Our dedicated activities team are constantly dreaming up new and wonderful ways to support and stimulate the residents we look after. From trips to crafts, parties to skittles, musical performances and quizzes, we include something for everyone and pride ourselves on including everyone into the fun. We have a brilliant team of volunteers who help us to deliver more trips, support us at events and pop in for a cup of tea and chat. We have pet therapy at least once per week (sometimes twice!) and we take advantage of every school break by holding large scale events that we can invite families with children to. We have been developing ties with our neighbours since we first opened and thanks to this, we have successfully brought together our residents with local churches, choirs, Brownies groups, and schools. Whatever your interests are, here at Braeburn, there's something for everyone.
Dee Tugluer
Hi, my name is Dee, and I am the Activities Coordinator at Braeburn Lodge.
I have over ten years of experience of working in events and activities. I also have extensive knowledge in people skills and project management. Together with my past skills and my friendly personality, i look forward to working with our lovely residents at Braeburn Lodge!
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Braeburn Lodge Care Home
Reading with our Nursing Community.
Reading aloud, whether to someone else or even to oneself, activates the frontal cortex and may have a role in helping to rehabilitate the cognitive functions of residents. Although many of them find it difficult in reading on their own, often due to reduced vision or chronic health concerns.
Today, it was a first for our lovely Nursing community. We created personalised bookmarks and selected a book each before sitting down to read with them. We tried to select novels or books that we thought may be of interest, some of which were selected based on the past careers of our wonderful residents. It was so wonderful to see the faces on our residents during this activity and we look forward to running a regular book club in the future.
National Bittersweet Chocolate Day!
Did you know that there is a National Bittersweet Chocolate Day? This is a national celebration of one of life's most delicious delights: chocolate with an edge! As part of this celebration the activities team invested in a chocolate fountain to treat all wonderful residents and staff members.
The morning was spent trying different kinds of fruits and snacks with the melted chocolate. It was a perfect opportunity for our residents to bond, engage in the conversation regarding the history of chocolate and trying out a new appliance, which some of them had never ever seen before. Overall, it was successful “chocolate” filled event.
Making memories with our residents
At Braeburn Lodge Care Home, we always try our very best to accommodate our resident’s needs. On this occasion we took some of our wonderful residents from our Memory Lane community on a lovely countryside ride in Lincolnshire. The weather was not the best, although our residents had an adventurous time, pointing out to all the floods around town.
Sometimes it is not possible to plan big events around our residents due to various reasons. However, we will always try to include them in some form of daily activity. Our mini outings have become quite a popular event in our home, especially with our Memory Lane residents. We always take a little picnic and make sure we park up, have a good chat, and indulge on some hot chocolate and treats.
Metal Detection Dogs
Across our services residents had a fantastic time during a special live virtual event, led by Emilia from Medical Detection Dogs.
Emilia took us on a journey to discover how the organisation began training dogs to support people with complex health conditions, saving their lives on a daily basis.
Using their amazing sense of smell, these dogs can identify odour changes emitted prior an episode and alert the person to take preventative action.
We were introduced to the wonderful dogs and the science behind the sniff. It was a delightful experience for everyone, especially our canine-loving residents.
Barchester’s Big Quiz of the year!
All over the country our care homes and hospitals linked up for Barchester’s Big Quiz of the year!
Residents tested their knowledge with a variety of questions, from historical humdingers and musical musings to pictorial puzzlers and connective conundrums.
Everyone who participated had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.
Braeburn’s Annual Christmas Fete
Wow.. what a successful event we had at Braeburn Lodge this year! We had a selection of festive external gift stalls, family tombola, Christmas raffle, mulled wine & cake, live music and also our very own Santa’s Grotto.
While our residents had the opportunity of looking through all the amazing gifts on sale, family enjoyed a glass of wine while also being entertained by our volunteer guitarist! Our raffle was certainly a big triumph, so many wonderful hampers gifted to all of our lucky winners.
It was amazing to see so many visitors from our local community, come together on this joyful event. Our residents really appreciate all the love and support they receive from friends and family, especially over the festive period.
Wishing everyone a joyful and peaceful Christmas this year.
