Activities at Braeburn Lodge Care Home
Our dedicated activities team are constantly dreaming up new and wonderful ways to support and stimulate the residents we look after. From trips to crafts, parties to skittles, musical performances and quizzes, we include something for everyone and pride ourselves on including everyone into the fun. We have a brilliant team of volunteers who help us to deliver more trips, support us at events and pop in for a cup of tea and chat. We have pet therapy at least once per week (sometimes twice!) and we take advantage of every school break by holding large scale events that we can invite families with children to. We have been developing ties with our neighbours since we first opened and thanks to this, we have successfully brought together our residents with local churches, choirs, Brownies groups, and schools. Whatever your interests are, here at Braeburn, there's something for everyone.
Dee Tugluer
My name is Dee Tugluer and I am the Activities Coordinator for Braeburn Lodge. I have been working in the care sector for almost a year and half. Prior to my job in the home I worked in the design sector and marketing for over twenty years. I also took a short break from my career to take care of my children and did so some volunteer work for my local community, schools and charities.
I really enjoy working for Braeburn as I have built a good relationship with all our residents. I love to make everyone feel happy and content, and get excited to plan and implement a beneficial Life Enrichment programme for our home.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Braeburn Lodge Care Home
Open Day at Braeburn Lodge
We celebrated Care Home Open Day with residents and loved ones, as well as opening the door to our local community.
The day was a real success; there were lots of stalls, ice cream and a traditional afternoon tea with Pimm's; lots of laughter and lots of games that were enjoyed by all.
The 'Throw a Sponge' stall gave the opportunity for people to get our Activities Coordinator, Jo Wrath, wet and messy
Cheese & Wine Evening
We welcomed the new General Manager to Braeburn Lodge with a cheese and wine evening.
Residents and loved ones enjoyed a lovely evening getting to know Daniela Phillips.
Good wine and cheese was served to all and the excitement continued late into the evening.
Braeburn Lodge supports local charity
We had our open day this weekend at Braeburn Lodge. It was a lot of fun, with lots of people attending the event.
The money we raised on the day will be use to support our local Pet refuge.
The Exotic Pet Refuge was founded in 1984, and is a small charity that provides a permanent home to a large variety of unwanted and neglected exotic animals from all kinds of backgrounds - private owners, RSPCA, zoos that closed down... the list goes on.
We will be handing a cheque to them very soon with the money we raised at the Open Day.
Home baking at Braeburn Lodge
What a delight we had one afternoon, baking on Memory Lane with our residents went down a storm! Residents and staff beat the eggs and mixed all the ingredients together, which got everyone talking about the cakes they used to make …The lemon drizzle cakes went down very well with a cup of tea!
We can’t wait for the next time!
A sad farewell at Braeburn Lodge
The staff and residents gave a very emotional farewell to one of our long serving nurses, her career spans over 41 years of nursing and is now retiring to enjoy her life with her family and friends.
Well done and congratulations to you, now it’s time for feet up and long holidays. We wish Lydia all the best.
15 Years of Service
General Manager, Daniela Phillips, presented our outstanding 15 Year Service Award to Administrator, Nicola Middlebrook, thanking her for all of her hard work and commitment at Barchester over the last 15 years.
