Activities at Chalfont Lodge Care Home
Chalfont Lodge is a large care home and we have a diverse range of groups and events to ensure that everyone feels welcome and included. In the Lifestyle team we work hard to create a sense of community and ensure there is always someone to talk to and something to do.
Our residents help us to plan the monthly lifestyle programme, making sure that everyone has something they like, enabling people to keep up with life long hobbies or pick up new ones. We have long term projects like our summer parties, car shows, BBQs, craft fairs, Christmas shows to mention a few and residents can be as involved as they would like in all stages of the planning or just come along and enjoy on the day.
We love going out on trips, to lunch, shopping or to socialise with other local groups, we also have many people who come into visit us with church services, music, talks and support for our bigger events.
We have a fantastic team of staff and every department is involved in making sure our residents get the most out of living here. We have a brilliant music therapist who works her magic 3 days a week, running group and individual sessions. Our Physiotherapy team keep everyone fit and active, working with us to make sure everyone has access to sports and team games.
We have a full programme groups, events and clubs but none of it would be possible without our residents and their families, we all work together to make this a home from home and to keep laughter and friendship at the heart of what we do.
Alex Perkins & Louise Doyle
Hello, I’m Alex the Activities Lead at Chalfont Lodge, working with me is Louise Doyle. I've worked at Chalfont Lodge for 8 years now. I originally started off as a volunteer and fell in love with the residents, families and staff. Since then, I've been an Activity assist, Activity Coordinator and now the head of the department! Activities are my passion and I love creating an environment where all of the residents can thrive and do what they love!
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Chalfont Lodge Care Home
A Sweet Tweet
Here at Chalfont Lodge our residents were delighted to welcome back the beautiful budgies with Performing Pets. We were lucky to have 9 birds come to see us today, with their beautiful colour feathers and lots of chirpy chat!
They were a great hit with residents, reminiscing of owning budgies as pets when they were young children. The experience brought happiness and smiles, and was truly enjoyed by all.
Barchester's Big Quiz
Concentrating faces were in full swing today at Chalfont Lodge! Everyone had fun joining in with all of our Barchester homes and hospitals across the country in the Barchester's Big Quiz of the Year. Residents and staff alike joined in the competition whilst having some lovely homemade treats to indulge on while they got focused and ready to win, with the concentration in the room you could hear a pin drop!
Community Knit and Natters
We have had a lovely coffee morning with the ladies and gentleman from our local community knit and natter group. They kindly brought along their Christmas knits to show our residents and gave us demonstrations on how they do their beautiful work which, including cosy warm blankets that they kindly knitted for some of our residents.
A Wonderful Wallaby
We were so excited when we got a lovely surprise visit from Performing Pets who came along with Wilson the White Wallaby. As you can imagine having a beautiful unique animal like this come to visit brought many shocked but happy faces! Everyone could not believe they were so close to the Wallaby and even more so that he liked a good cuddle!
Thank you Performing Pets for bringing extra Christmas cheer to Chalfont Lodge.
Raffle Winner
Congratulations to our Care Practitioner Cosmina who won our raffled Christmas Hamper! We raised over £110 for "Liberty's Legacy" which raises vital funds for life saving research into Ewing sarcoma.
Thank you to everyone who purchased a ticket for this great cause.
Cupcake Decorating
Here at Chalfont Lodge our residents enjoyed decorating their own cupcakes which were prepared and baked by our wonderful Chef. We then used different treats to make creative designs whilst we couldn't resist eating them at the same time!
They were very tasty we must say!
