Celebrating life at Barchester

Today our residents enjoyed a delicious Fish and Chips Day, freshly prepared by our wonderful chef, Alex. The meal was a huge success, with beautifully cooked fish, golden chips, and plenty of happy smiles around the dining room. 

A big thank you to our amazing chef, Alex, for creating such a fantastic dish and making mealtimes so special for our residents. The care, skill, and dedication that go into every meal are truly appreciated.

Good food brings people together, and today was a wonderful opportunity for residents to enjoy a traditional favourite and spend time together.

Our Bedewell bakers made Italian pizzas starting with our pastry mixing the ingredients before rolling out the dough. Our gents grated the cheese and cut up ham for our toppings. 

It's always lovely to hear stories of our residents baking with their parents on a Sunday in the good old days. 

There's always a lot of teamwork helping each other roll out the dough, and they look forward to the tasting session when they are fresh from the oven.        

Our ladies were thrilled to be invited to our local nursery for their graduation party. The children are regular visitors to Bedewell for our intergenerational dance classes with Little Movers and we have loved our classes which everyone looks forward to.

We watched the children play games, dance and we share a picnic.

We also met the childrens families who said they always go home with stories of the fun they have visiting our residents.     

Creativity was in full bloom here at Mount Tryon as we enjoyed a wonderful flower arranging afternoon, from choosing our flowers to creating them into beautiful colourful arrangements around our home.         

We were very lucky to have James from We Clothe For You pop-up shop visit us at Mount Tryon yesterday. They brought along some really lovely clothes and accessories. Our residents really enjoyed having a little nosey through them all and choosing a few new summer items. It was such a nice visit, and we look forward to welcoming him back in the future.

Thank you so much for bringing.

We enjoyed a fantastic outing again. This time we ventured to what could be our new favourite place, The Orange Elephant Ice cream Parlour.

Our residents and team members enjoyed taking in the wonderful views, reminiscing and, of course, the delicious ice cream.

We plan to return a few more times.    

Atfield House Care Home Summer Party was accompanied by splendid weather this year. Our chef and his team went out of their way to produce a splendid BBQ lunch for residents and their visitors to enjoy inside or in the garden.

Atfield House was buzzing with visitors, who enjoyed sharing this meal with their loved ones in the shade under a canopy or trees. We carried on the fun by watching our own private circus show, performed by the aerial Sabine at breathtaking heights and with graceful movements. She entertained us also with small tricks, and we all enjoyed a chat from table to table. To top the entertainment, Tracey sang for us her beautiful jazzy songs, enjoyed by all with tea, coffee and cake. The day was marked with a relaxing and joyful atmosphere and the perfect occasion for our new manager to spend quality time with our residents and their visitors, getting to know each other in such a beautiful setting.

Thank you to our chef and his crew, who worked tirelessly, to bring us such a delicious BBQ lunch. Thank you to the hospitality team, who served everyone with joy and delight! Thanks also to the care team, and all staff members who worked behind the scenes for assisting to assist our residents throughout the day. Thanks to our visiting entertainers! 

Thanks to our family members and friends and visitors too, who brought fun, laughter and joy to their loved ones, and to all of us too! 

May the summer continue with joy, fun and laughter for us all.      

We've had a fantastic week so far, embracing 'Get Barchester Moving' and incorporating our focus this month on 'Supporting and involving our residents, family, and friends.'           

This morning at our Care Home Lancaster Grange, we managed to enjoy a very gentle armchair workout in our air-conditioned cafe, we embraced a short walk into the grounds before it got too hot.

Our residents have really tried hard this week to build up their Barchester Get Moving  minutes and it was lovely to see so many residents eager to join in.

After lunch, we celebrated another meaningful birthday with a delicious lemon cheesecake, which was the birthday girl's favourite and was made by our chef Nomin.

To mark the occasion, we had a good old fashioned sing-along.

Our resident sunshine singers decided to stay indoors, keeping safe and hydrated, but still having lots of fun!

We have a great weekend planned and look forward to seeing all our visiting friends and family here at Lancaster.

What a fantastic morning we have had today at our Care Home, Lancaster Grange!!

Recognising our Care and Life Enrichment Pillar for July on 'Supporting and involving residents, families, and friends'.

What a better way to start the week with 'Family and Friends Community Walks'.

Also going hand in hand with taking part in our 'Get Barchester Moving Week'.

With our residents, families, and friends, our home joined together to make this happen.

With the support from our General Manager Sally Tebbet, our heads of Department, from Hospitality and Administration, our Life Enrichment Team, Care staff coming in on their day off and volunteers, we enjoyed a wonderful walk into our community village of Fernwood.

We all enjoyed a beautiful sunny stroll through the park, stopping off for an ice cream, a singalong, ball games, and finding a bug hotel !! What more could you ask for?

We have made cherished memories, experienced moments of magic, with sunshine, beautiful scenery and, most of all, we spent time with our residents, their family and friends and our Lancaster Grange Family.

A huge thank you to everyone who helped and took the time here this morning, to make this happen, for our wonderful Lancaster Grange residents.