BayleafBarchester Healthcare

Activities at Bayleaf Care Home

Name: Bayleaf Care Home
Address: Sallowbush Road,, Huntingdon, PE29 7AF, GB
Telephone: 01480 802091

Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.

Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.

Read our brochure ‘Life-enriching activities’ for more information about life in our care homes.

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Celebrating life at 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.

Open Day

We had our first Open Day of 2026 on Saturday and it was another brilliant day for everybody at Bayleaf.

We welcomed a number of new visitors to the home and they, along with our residents and their families, enjoyed everything that Bayleaf has to offer.

We had some amazing home-made cakes and snacks courtesy of our catering team and we were also joined by RAW Theatre Productions for a 'Burns Night' themed afternoon of live music.

Thank you for everybody who worked so hard to make the day come together.

Bayleaf continues to go from strength to strength

Feed the Birds.......

In preparation for the Big Garden Birdwatch, which is happening at Bayleaf later in the week, our Ladies have been busy making home-made bird food and feeders.

Using a mixture of peanuts, seeds, suet, lard and mealworms we care blended everything together before putting the mixture into the feeders and left them to set.

It was messy work but everybody had a great afternoon and we very much look forward to seeing the different birds as they come to feast!!!

Clive's Bin

We had our regular Fitness Friday with Liam Rushmer PT but this one was a little bit more special than usual as today we were joined by former Professional Footballer, Junior McDougald, who grew up a few hundred yards away from Bayleaf and was here to meet life-long Tottenham Hotspur fan Clive and become the first person to sign 'Clive's Bin'.

Clive's Bin is a wellbeing initiative thought up by Liam aimed at bringing former or current athletes or celebrities to Bayleaf to meet the residents, share memories from their careers and then sign Clive's Bin before nominating the next person to come to the home.

As well as this Junior also joined Freda, John and Clive for a little bit of seated Football and seated Tennis before happily agreeing to have photos with residents and staff alike.

A big thank you to Liam for his initiative and Junior for making our morning such a memorable experience.

Employees of the Month

It's that time of the month again!!

After speaking with our residents and their families, it has been decided that this month, our Employee of the Month is not just one person. Our Employees of the Month go to our entire Housekeeping Team!!!!.

The feedback that was received highlighted how quick the housekeeping team were with the resident laundry and how spotlessly clean the home always looks.

Huge congratulations to Carol and the team and a massive thank you from all of us here at Bayleaf.

A Musical Journey

This morning we were joined by our friends from Hampton Grove Care Home - Barchester Healthcare for an unforgettable performance from the one and only Musical Journeys.

The residents from both homes were taken on a nostalgic journey through their musical past and there was a lot of singing, dancing and foot-tapping throughout the performance.

It was a memorable morning and we very much look forward to welcoming Musical Journeys back to Bayleaf in the not too distant future.

Cambridgeshire Deaf Association visit Bayleaf

We were joined yesterday by Riley and Lisa from Cambridgeshire Deaf Association for the 'Living Well With Hearing Loss' presentation.

It was a very well delivered and informative presentation which all of the people that were in attendance appreciated. There was a very useful Q&A session at the end and everybody took new information home with them.

We now look forward to welcoming CDA back on Tuesday 27th January for the Hearing Aid Maintenance Clinics, which are being held at Bayleaf and are running from 2pm until 3:30pm.

A Grand Day Out

We had a lovely day out yesterday as we took Freda and Joyce to the Wyton Garden Centre.

The ladies had a lovely time at admiring the beautiful displays, delighting in the giant fish in the aquarium, and enjoying some refreshments before heading back to the home to show the other residents the flowers and plants that they had brought.

Flower Power

Joyce, Margaret and Olivia were busy yesterday afternoon after a delivery of flowers arrived at the home.

They set about coming up with some utterly beautiful floral arrangements, carefully selecting which flowers went together to create their very own works of art.

The end result was a selection of stunning bouquets of flowers which are now placed in resident rooms and in our communal areas for all to see.

Introducing our Resident Ambassador

We are very proud to announce that our wonderful resident, Mary, has the honour of being the first ever Resident Ambassador for Bayleaf Care Home.

Mary first came to Bayleaf within a few weeks of our opening and has become such an integral part of life at our beautiful home. We could not think of a better person to call our Resident Ambassador and we know that Mary will do herself and Bayleaf very proud.

Well done Mary!!!

Freda's Memorable Afternoon

We had an absolutely lovely afternoon yesterday as we took a trip over to see our friends at Hilton Park Care Home.

We were invited to visit them as they being visited by Evie’s Owls and wanted us to be a part of it. Freda was incredibly excited when she heard about the visit, and was fascinated by the two beautiful birds: a Barn Owl named Sarah and a Bolivian Chaco Owl named Chico.

Freda then listened to an engaging talk about the birds before enjoying the unique experience of stroking them and feeling their soft feathers.

It was a truly wonderful afternoon and we are very grateful to Hilton Park for their generosity. We look forward to returning the favour very soon.

Retail Therapy

There's nothing like a little bit of retail therapy to soothe the mind so when Freda and Mary said that they would like to go and have a look around the local supermarket, we were only too happy to oblige.

We had a lovely wander around and after the ladies had bought what they wanted to we headed back to Bayleaf for a coffee and some cake.

Eyes Down and dabbers at the ready

It was Eyes Down at the home on Friday as we were joined by fellow keen dabbers from our local community as we hosted a fun-filled evening of Bingo at the home.

Refreshments were provided upon arrival and then it was eyes down for a full house as our residents and visitors battled it out to find out who would prevail. There were prizes for all of the winners and the evening was a great success with lots of fun and laughter throughout the evening.

We very much look forward to doing this again very soon.

The Warmth of Music

Our first live entertainment of 2026 came courtesy of the fabulous Boots 'n' Strings who entertained the residents with an endless list of classics from yesteryear.

There was lots of singing and foot-tapping as we forgot all about the cold weather outside and filled the home with the warmth of music. It was another amazing afternoon at Bayleaf and we very much look forward to welcoming Boots 'n' Strings back to Bayleaf in the very near future.

New Year Treat

We asked the residents what they would like to do to celebrate the New Year and they agreed that it would be lovely to go out for lunch, so that is exactly what we did.

A big thank you to the Hartford Mill for your hospitality. We all had a fabulous time and left with full bellies and happy hearts.

From all of us at Bayleaf Care Home we would like to wish you all a happy and prosperous 2026.