Celebrating life at Barchester

Our community team joined our dear friend Amanda from Home Straight in Oakham for a local Veterans coffee morning with the Armed Forces and Veterans breakfast club.

It was a pleasure to meet and speak with our local veterans, as well as meeting local community champions, including Emma from Tesco.     

We were delighted to welcome Sarah Collins from Dementia Consultancy to our home.

Sarah led a dementia-focused morning of activities encompassing reminiscence, creativity, music and sensory experiences.

We were also joined by Ellen from Rutland County Council, who took part in the morning’s experience. We are looking forward to welcoming Sarah back in the near future.    

We had an absolute blast at our dementia disco.  Thank you for everyone that attended and took part.  Keep posted for news on our next one!

Tandridge Heights was delighted to welcome children from our local community, alongside our residents, to a wonderful sunshine art session led by the lovely Lucy Cahill. 

Lucy brings the beauty of seasonal nature and crafts into the home, creating fun and engaging activities that spark creativity and imagination in children. 

This session, everyone got creative, using fruit to create some beautiful artwork! It was a lovely opportunity for our residents and local children to come together, get creative and enjoy the sunshine.

Mary made us all laugh when she said, “I’m going to display my fruity artwork in my room.” 

We do love a shopping trip to M&S Exmouth. A lovely outing in our mini bus for a little bit of retail therapy is just what our residents needed this week. 

Did you know that there is the National Day of Arts in Care Homes? We had a wonderful time when we put on an art exhibition showcasing the fantastic artwork made by residents at Kernow House. 

Specially invited people came for a private viewing, and we were honoured to have the mayor, Nicola Gilbert, join us. It was a fantastic day filled with colour, imagination and plenty of smiles and a great opportunity to showcase some of the outstanding artwork created by residents.   

It was all aboard "The Good Ship Lucerne" for our Talk like a Pirate Day celebrations at the start of September.

Residents, visitors and team members had a great time, joining in with a variety of entertainment, hosted by Lucerne's own Captain Jack and first mate Kirsty, in our Memory Lane Community. We enjoyed singing, including some traditional sea fairing music, a quiz, pirate stand-up and our walk-the-plank game, which saw team members attempting to walk our "make-shift" plank all while being blindfolded and after being spun around.

It's been great fun, and we want to thank everyone for joining us today. We hope you all enjoy your pirate treasure but do eat it before it melts.     

It is always lovely to get together at our Nibbles and Tipples social evenings.

Our residents and visitors have had a great time, sharing stories and having a good laugh which was perfectly complimented by a variety of meats, cheeses, breads, sweets treats and a delicious wines. 

We thank you to everyone who joined us. We look forward to our next evening get together.