Celebrating life at Barchester

Our home was filled with music, laughter, and smiles as residents, their families, friends, and members of our local community came together for a wonderful afternoon celebrating the swinging sixties.
Everyone enjoyed a delicious buffet prepared by our amazing kitchen team before singing and dancing the afternoon away to the brilliant entertainment from our favourite duo, Tracey and John, who had everyone joining in with the classic hits.
A huge congratulations to our lovely housekeeper, Claire, who was crowned our Best Dressed winner.

At Barchester homes we have resident ambassadors. They have various roles they can take on within the home.  Jean one of our resident ambassadors joined our Fire Marshall training to see what staff are taught to keep residents safe during a fire. She reflected on how different it was to when she worked in a school. I think she’ll be spotting green lights from fire lights and fire break doors everywhere now. It was nice to hear about the job fire break doors do and how the building is evacuated from around the fire first, to behind the fire break doors and not a total evacuation straight away.

Our residents had a fantastic afternoon visiting the Newton St Loe Bird of Prey Project, home to over 18 species of magnificent birds of prey and owls.
Everyone thoroughly enjoyed watching the incredible flight display, seeing these beautiful birds soar overhead and learning more about their unique characteristics. It was a truly memorable experience, with lots of smiles, laughter, and conversation throughout the day.
The bird of prey project for made us feel so welcome and gave our residents a wonderful afternoon. 

One of the cornerstones of our life enrichment program is live musical entertainment. Resident involvement in choosing genres along with feedback after each performance means that we are able to constantly improve our activities calendar.

Our Residents enjoyed a fully themed Western Wednesday. Cowboys hats on they enjoyed a special western menu and all our communities came together to enjoy some classic country and western favourites form one of thier favourite entertainers Ray. There were Yee ha's and yippee ki-yay's all around.

At Alice Garnge that's what we like to do - create memories, and ensure our residents are leading full enriched lives.

Our Activities Team is dedicated to ensuring that we organise events that encourage our residents to host their families and friends at Alice Grange. Our home is always to open to loved ones who wish to take part in our life enrichment program. 

Families and friends form the local community came together for a fun filled day. There were Entertainments, refreshments, BBQ and a well deserved Ice Cream. The weather was glorious and as you can see there were smiles all round.

Ensuring that we host events that relatives and friends can join is very important to us here at Alice Grange. 

Saturday 8th August, we held our annual Summer Fair, and we couldn’t have been happier with how the day went! The sun was shining, and the air was filled with music, laughter and a wonderful atmosphere. Our residents, families, friends and staff all had a fantastic time enjoying the games, stalls and entertainment.

A huge thank you to all our stallholders for bringing along such a wonderful variety of products and making the fair so colourful and enjoyable. A special thank you to Chris the Magician, who entertained and amazed us all with his fantastic magic tricks! 

Thank you also to everyone who took part in the raffle and tombola. Their support helped us raise valuable funds for our residents, and we are incredibly grateful for their generosity. Last but certainly not least, a heartfelt thank you to all our friends and staff members who gave their time, energy and support to help make the day so memorable. 

Thank you to everyone who made it so special, and we look forward to seeing you all again at next year’s Summer Fete!