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
Hi, my name is Dee, and I am the Activities Coordinator at Braeburn Lodge.
I have over ten years of experience of working in events and activities. I also have extensive knowledge in people skills and project management. Together with my past skills and my friendly personality, i look forward to working with our lovely residents at Braeburn Lodge!
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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
An introduction to dance
What a fantastic hour our lovely residents had at Braeburn Lodge. The lovely Sally Correia from Encore Academy ran an excellent Dance session for some of our more adventurous residents. It was full of light exercise, music and easy dance moves accompanied with props.
Dancing can release chemicals in the brain that actively work to reduce cortisol, which helps reduce stress, anxiety, and depression! Our residents loved today's activity and cannot wait to welcome Sally back to our home again.
A creative morning in Memory Lane
This morning we spent a wonderfully creative morning with our Memory Lane residents. Our theme was "Summer Trees". Our residents love experimenting with finger painting as it gives them a chance to be free and expressive. Even our wonderful carers were involved in this activity and helped support our residents during the crafting session.
Creative activities like painting and listening to music can stimulate the brain. It can help people living with dementia to create a dialogue and provide them with an additional means to express themselves.
Braeburn's Chess Club
What a very exciting event at Braeburn Lodge. Two of our wonderful residents have been wanting to play a great chess for such a long time. It was about time we made their special dream come true. The game turned out to be both tense and fun at the same time .. although our gentlemen had the best experience. We cannot wait for Colin and David to set a date for their next match!
Virtual Tour of Mayfair
Residents across our services had a fantastic time joining Mandy Morrow for a virtual walking tour to learn about the ‘Herstory’ of Mayfair. The Mayfair of Nightingales may be long gone but it still holds a 20th century charm. Birthplace to the late Queen Elizabeth II, home to one of WWII's most decorated female war heroes and a tale of a wealthy Aristocrat and one of France's favourite designers.
We were delighted to take a walk down memory lane and discover stories from one of London's most iconic areas. The experience was truly enjoyed by all.
Lazy Sunday Cinema Morning
After a very long break, our residents were finally treated to an exciting morning in our wonderful in-house Cinema room.
Our residents chose to watch the film Mamma Mia as part of their Lazy Sunday morning treat. They indulged in some delicious treats and refreshing juice, all part of the cinematic experience. They also sang along to most of the Abba songs and thoroughly enjoyed the whole vibe of this very exciting activity.
Going forward, we hope to make our Cinema room a big part of our weekly activities at Braeburn Lodge and cannot wait to invite other homes to share this experience!
Did somebody say Ascot?
We held a small Ascot themed “Cocktail” party in our wonderful gardens with some of our very excited residents!
After a couple of days of creating our own hats and watching the highlights of all the live races, we finally made it to the party. One resident in particular made a big effort in her
Entire outfit in order to fit in with the whole theme of Ascot.
It was a wonderfully engaging morning with lots of lovely nibbles and refreshing cocktails. We sang, we ate and we toasted our glasses to all the champion horses.
