Activities at Bushey House Beaumont Care Home
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.
Tina Stovey
I started working at Bushey House Beaumont in 2022 in an activities role that I absolutely love. There are very few jobs that offer the daily satisfaction and fulfilment that mine does. I am delighted to be able to play my part in helping to bring joy and laughter into our residents’ daily lives and offer them an interesting choice of events to do just that.
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 Bushey House Beaumont Care Home
A Christmas Wish
Ian is a resident of Bushey House and a double amputee. Ian has always refused to leave his room or use a wheelchair until this Christmas. Ian’s favourite activity is always the performing pet visits and every month the pets visit in his room and I take a photo for him and print out for him to put on his wall. Last summer I started to suggest it would be nice for Ian to come out in a wheelchair and get his Christmas pet photo by our big Christmas tree for a nice photo for his wall.
After lots of persuasion he agreed on the condition I got him a very fancy Santa suit. On the day with the assistance of the care team we got Ian into his Santa costume and into a wheelchair suitable for him. Ian was in reception by the tree to meet Wilson the baby wallaby and get his special photo in front of the tree. This was the first time Ian had left his room and there was not a dry eye in the home as we saw how happy he was. Following this visit Ian got his special photo which we framed and has pride of place on his wall. Following this Ian also came out Christmas day and joined in the celebrations and has agreed to come out to meet the performing pet every month it has been a joy to see the change in Ian and see him meeting all the other residents.
All Aboard the Good Ship Bushey House!
Residents recently took part in a fun activity when they embarked on a virtual cruise to The Philippines, originally various islands populated by competing tribes arriving from mainland Southeast Asia, each with their own king and queen“ where people have lived since the dawn of human history!
The trip was organised by one of our nurses Heidi with help from colleagues, who arranged for our residents watched an interesting film show all about life in The Philippines.
As well as 'visiting' interesting landmarks and learning historical facts about The Philippines and being entertained with traditional dancing, our residents got to sample some traditional fruits and to make their own bird wind chime souvenirs.
Everyone enjoyed learning about a country that most were not familiar with and found the whole experience very interesting.
Our next cruise is preparing to set sail to Japan and our residents have their “tickets“ at the ready and looking forward to the sail away party when they board the ship!
Mitzvah Day celebrations at Bushey House
Residents recently enjoyed interactive, intergenerational fun at Bushey house, when the girls from 'Bushey Brownies' came to celebrate Mitzvah Day with us.
The brownie group based at Bushey Synagogue came to sing songs to entertain us, and also brought cards and gifts especially for our residents.
Mitzvah Day is all about bringing local communities and people together and doing selfless acts, as well as delivering acts of kindness for others.
Our residents were delighted to meet all the girls and thrilled with the handmade boxes of chocolates and cards given to them, as well as to hear the joyful songs they performed especially for us.
They are welcome to visit again any time!
Remembrance Sunday celebration at Bushey House
We had a captive audience of residents on Sunday morning to watch the Remembrance Sunday service together, broadcast on the big TV screen.
Afterwards, we all enjoyed freshly brewed cups of tea and delicious home-baked cakes prepared by Head Chef Avni, and shared stories together, to reminisce about our individual experiences about World War II and remembering people we'd loved and lost, which all agreed they found comfort in coming together to mark this day of huge significance.
Last week, we made a poppy wreath which we are taking to our local war memorial on behalf of us all at Bushey House later today.
Pop-tastic, wreath-making activity a success at Bushey House
Residents enjoyed an afternoon of creative activity when they applied their artistic skills to make poppies.
The 'Piece de Resistance' was a beautiful wreath made entirely of the poppies and currently has pride of place in the Reception area of our Home, where it will be displayed until Sunday 12th November, after which it will then be taken and placed at our local War Memorial.
Remembrance Sunday is very important to our residents and many recalled their memories of the war, while we worked on on creating our poppies and wreath.
The residents were all very proud of their beautiful creation and agreed the wreath was unique, and reflected everyone’s talents.
Autumn Sunset at Bushey House
As the sun set following a fine, dry day, residents marvelled at the beautiful way the sunset enhanced the beautiful golden colours of the trees and shrubs in the extensive grounds at Bushey House, from the comfort of the Grand Dining Room, whilst enjoying supper.
Everyone agreed just how fortunate we all are to be able to look out of the large, full length, picture windows to fully appreciate such breathtakingly, beautiful surroundings every single day when we also see deer and other wildlife exploring in our garden.
