Activities at Chester Court Care Home
We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinator is dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.
Our aim is to make sure that our residents feel they had something to look forward to each day. We have a varied life enrichment programme, both in the home and in the community, and we always ask if there is anything different that residents would like to do. Residents and families approach our Activities Coordinator and comment on how much they enjoy what we do, so that we can continue to develop our programme to the benefit of our residents.
Lauren Corbett
Hi, my name is Lauren and I am the Activities Coordinator here at Chester Court. I joined the team in December 2020 and bring a wealth of enthusiasm to the role. I have just graduated from university in July 2020 and have previously completed work experience at another Barchester home. During this work experience I discovered how meaningful and important activities are for residents and how they can help enhance resident’s lives. Therefore, I decided to become an activities coordinator myself as I feel this is such a rewarding role.
I love working with our Residents here at the home and getting to know them and their families so that I can deliver and support in meaningful activities, keeping them socially stimulated and active as part of our extensive life enrichment calendar. The lifestyle and continued community links are also important.
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 Chester Court Care Home
Bullseye!
If you hadn’t noticed here at Chester Court we love to find fun ways to incorporate exercise into our activities. Ball darts is a firm favourite. Here is our winner of the day who consistently scored bullseyes!
Residents enjoy trip in the sun
Residents at Chester Court care home in Bedlington celebrated International Museum Day by visiting Woodhorn Museum in Ashington. Woodhorn Museum is the North East’s last remaining coal mining built heritage. The museum is also home to the The Ashington Group Collection of artworks, commonly known as the ‘Pitmen Painters’. This iconic display showcases what daily life was really like for miners in and around Ashington from the 1930s.
Residents enjoyed looking around the Pitman Painters art gallery, an outside tour of the colliery and learning all about Northumberland’s mining heritage. During the visit residents spent time reminiscing about their family history as their grandad was a miner and it brought back many memories and stories he had been told when he was younger. To finish off the day residents enjoyed a lovely picnic outside for their lunch.
Home raises funds for charity
Chester Court care home whipped up a baking treat on Saturday 7th May for Dementia UK’s biggest fundraiser of the year, Time for a Cuppa, fronted by TV star Emma Barton. Colleagues, friends and family came together with crumbs on seats and raised an incredible £130 which will go towards Dementia UK’s specialist Admiral Nurses.
Head Chef, Dawn Thompson and Activities Co-ordinator, Lauren Corbett organised an afternoon tea takeaway event to raise money for the charity. Dawn whipped up a selection of sandwiches, cheese scones, corn beef pie, cheese and onion quiche, cheese cake and chocolate cupcakes for the boxes. The event ended up a hit and the home sold a total of 26 boxes.
Conversations by the Pond
We had a lovely time joining Henry Slator for an exciting virtual event to discuss his book ‘Conversations at the Pond’.
Henry had an unusual writing journey, which many of our residents found inspiring, he underwent chemotherapy in early 2020, which allowed him to rediscover his light-hearted outlook on life by imagining conversations with creatures in and around his large garden pond and adding buckets of fun.
The entertaining Conversations at the Pond, with its mass of colourful illustrations, took our residents along his journey, they felt inspired, cheered and loved hearing all about Henry’s experiences.
A trip out to Cramlington
Residents had an amazing day on their first outing in over 2 years due to covid! We had a trip to Cramlington where we shopped till we dropped! We went into Bonmarche, Next, The Works, Wilko, Asda and B&M. We then enjoyed a delicious lunch at Muffin Break cafe and we even went into Pets at Home and had a look at all of the animals!
Easter celebrations
Staff and residents at Barchester’s Chester Court care home, in Bedlington, celebrated Easter with a whole host of different activities including dressing up, decorating the home and holding an Easter raffle.
Residents at Chester Court enjoyed an eggs-tensive range of Easter activities including, an Easter bonnet and an egg decorating competition, Easter crafts, an Easter raffle, making chocolate rice crispy cakes, playing a bunny ring toss game and receiving chocolate gifts from the Easter bunny. Residents also tucked in to a delicious Sunday roast followed by the delicious rice crispy cakes they created earlier in the day.
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