Celebrating life at Barchester

We celebrate life through everything we do, from our thoughtful experiences and activities to our delicious food. We offer the latest technology as well as sensory engagement to nurture the wellbeing of our residents. With a wide variety of tailored activities and events we make sure our residents have the best physical, mental, spiritual and social stimulation, all bespoke to them. Take a look at what we’ve been up to…

Mallard Court Care Home

Puppy therapy

We love animals visiting, and the Puppy Therapy visits are very special, and these two are perfect lapdogs.

Archie and Chico are two Maltese twin brothers and they are now 6 months old, and so well-behaved, cute and loveable!

We welcome well-behaved pets to visit our residents as most of us have pets throughout our lives.

Mallard Court Care Home

Magic table!

We love our Magic Sensory Table for everyone to join in and have fun together.

The Magic Table is packed with nostalgic fun songs and beautiful moving visuals, for every age group to enjoy.

We encourage visitors, especially children, to join in this fun sensory activity with our residents.

Ashby House Care Home

Cook Off

We recently held a fun and flavour-filled cook off as part of the recruitment process for our second Chef .

Our wonderful Residents chose the meals they’d love to enjoy, and then had the very important job of taste testing the finished dishes .

Safe to say, it was a delicious day all round and our Residents loved being part of the decision-making!

A Delightful Afternoon by the Water

What a lovely time our residents had at Tides Coffee Shop in Fareham.

Everyone thoroughly enjoyed a relaxing treat of tea and delicious cake, along with plenty of smiles and good conversation.

Afterwards, we took a gentle stroll down to the waterside near the boats, where our residents had great fun feeding the birds and enjoying the fresh air and beautiful views.

Boroughbridge Manor Care Home

Trip to the Cafe

We took a lovely walk into town of Boroughbridge, where one of our residents has local connections and remembered some of the surrounding areas, we stopped off for a nice cup of tea and a hot scone at the Crown Hotel where the staff and atmosphere were lovely and very accommodating.

Bayleaf Care Home

Employee of the Month

It's Employee of the Month time and it gives us enormous pleasure to announce that the Bayleaf Employee of the Month is the amazing Lorraine.

Lorraine is the first face you see when you visit Bayleaf and the first voice you hear when you call and we could not ask for a better person to make the best possible first impression for our home.

Thank you Lorraine. We simply wouldn't be the same home without you.

A New Year, A Great Start!

A new year is always the time where people look at improving their lifestyle habits and health needs. This week we hosted our well being event, where our local Malvern community met health and wellbeing professionals full of useful advice and support.

From Wellbeing services, fitness tips and healthcare information, it was wonderful to see so many people attend our event who want to get the best out of life - there were even live exercise demonstrations courtesy from the Freedom Leisure team based at the Malvern Splash!!

Thank you to everyone who came and to the following organisations;

Malvern Social Prescribers,

NHS Health Bus,

Community Action,

Freedom Leisure,

Specsavers,

Age UK Wyvern

Malvern Community Action.

International Hug Day

Staff and residents chose to spread some joy on International Hugging Day which took place on January 21st.

International Hugging Day is an invitation to extend your arms and offer affection, understanding and warmth. The idea is that by promoting a simple but meaningful act of kindness in the form of a hug, we can transform people’s lives, one small gesture at a time.

The Tixover House team made up of staff covering all departments decided to come together to spread love, warmth and kindness through such a simple gesture of giving and receiving a hug, the smiles on the faces of all and how accepting of a hug show truly how well received this act was.

Maple Leaf Lodge Care Home

Happy New Year!

All the staff and residents wish you all a very happy and healthy New Year. We can’t wait for 2026 and all the exciting things it holds.

Residents throughout the home have welcome in the fabulous Steve Carmel for a party full of singing and lots of dancing to welcome in the New Year. The was full of celebrations, smiles and lots of confetti!