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…

Elgar Court Care Home

Sparkle for our 3 year Anniversary

Residents, staff and guests at our home enjoyed a visit from the Drag Queen Artists – Chrystal and Phill Mi Up and songstress Connie, to perform at our to celebrate Pride and our three year anniversary of opening on 28th July. Everyone had a fantastic time with the guest drag queens and hilarious audience participation from staff dancing and having a go at lip syncing like the drag queens!

It's so lovely to mark our three year anniversary of our care home of being open, and as always we always offer something a little bit different!

Miss Balloonatron Brought Magic to Collingtree Park

What a completely fantastic afternoon of pure fun and laughter our residents shared with the absolutely amazing Miss Balloonatron! Our residents were thoroughly entertained throughout the entire event as she sang beautifully while simultaneously creating incredible, intricate balloon models.

There were bright smiles and joyful laughter all around the room as she masterfully crafted a giant balloon diamond ring, a beautiful bunch of colourful flowers, a realistic bicycle, and even a majestic royal crown! It was truly wonderful to see everyone enthusiastically joining in, laughing, and enjoying such a unique, interactive performance. A huge thank you to Miss Balloonatron for bringing so much immense joy, wonderful music, and vibrant creativity to our home. We absolutely cannot wait to welcome you back!

Collingtree Park Care Home

Primary Pupils Bring Sunshine and Song to Collingtree Park

In mid-July, we proudly welcomed the wonderful children from Collingtree CE Primary School, who kindly came to sing for our delighted residents. Their truly beautiful musical performances brought immense joy, bright smiles, and pure happiness to everyone in attendance. Afterwards, the talented children thoroughly enjoyed a lovely lunch with us, giving us a perfect opportunity to wish all the Year 6 pupils the absolute best as they begin their next exciting academic chapter. We know you will all achieve truly amazing things! We already look forward to welcoming Collingtree CE Primary School back this coming September after the busy summer holidays, as another fresh chapter begins for everyone. Have a truly fantastic six-week summer break, Collingtree Primary—enjoy every single sunny moment!

Collingtree Park Care Home

July Fitness Fun

During this bright month of July, our amazing residents had a truly fantastic time during their lively fitness session, focusing closely on developing essential hand-eye coordination skills. These fun, engaging physical activities help greatly to improve coordination, mental concentration, and overall joint mobility while simultaneously bringing plenty of bright smiles and shared laughter directly to the room. It is always wonderful to see absolutely everyone getting fully involved, warmly encouraging one another, and thoroughly enjoying themselves together in a highly supportive group environment. We want to say a massive well done to all our brilliant residents for completing another exceptionally great, energetic morning workout session recently! Your incredible energy, stamina, and positive attitudes make these wonderful active exercises a total spectacular highlight for our entire care community.

Collingtree Park Care Home

Spectacular Summer Garden Transformation

The grounds at Collingtree Park Care Home are officially in spectacular bloom, completely transformed by a wonderful collaborative effort. A dedicated group of our incredible residents enthusiastically rolled up their sleeves to help us fill our shared outdoor space with a vibrant variety of beautiful flowers.

Everyone thoroughly enjoyed a lovely, sun-filled afternoon spent planting fresh soil, chatting happily about their favourite blossoms, and soaking in the crisp, refreshing air together. Thanks to their incredible hard work and green fingers, our back garden has truly come alive with brilliant pockets of colour and life.

Collingtree Park Care Home

Bridging Generations

At the beginning of July, the residents from Collingtree Park Care Home enjoyed a truly wonderful visit to Collingtree CE Primary School for a delicious roast chicken lunch alongside the local school children.

After finishing their lovely meal, everyone happily headed outside to the sunny playground area. The enthusiastic residents eagerly joined in the fun and laughter of outdoor play, instantly matching the children's bright energy. It was incredibly heartwarming to watch these different generations spending quality time together, sharing broad smiles, lively conversations, and creating special community memories.

A huge thank you goes out to the wonderful pupils and staff at Collingtree CE Primary School for providing such a warm, memorable welcome. We are already looking forward to our next great school visit together!

Highfield Care Home

Summer Fete

The end of July saw our home welcome relatives, friends, and the local community to join our residents for our annual Summer Fete!

Our wonderful team put on a fabulous display of delicious food, games, music, and fun, alongside stalls hosted by fantastic local business owners.

Richard and Honey were also on hand to provide the perfect musical entertainment, performing a selection of classic favourites.

Crafts and Beats

We love having Tracy from Crafts and Beats visit us.

A wonderful way to come together, enjoy music and to dance along!

Tracy is a firm favourite with the home she brings an uplifting and warm energy to Chestnut Garden that we all can't resist getting up to join in.

Westlake House Care Home

Newbridge Garden Centre

Mini bus outing to Newbridge Garden Centre.

Our ladies had a fabulous day out time shopping for a new Summer wardrobe, looking at the beautiful Summer flowers displays and pointing out all the wildlife they could see buzzing around.

After shopping we took a well-earned break in the lovely café, where we had coffee, delicious cake and a good natter!