Activities at Iddenshall Hall Care Home

This week we have been celebrating Carers Week and our Residents were very keen to acknowledge the wonderful care our dedicated and hard-working Carers give to them.

They worked hard making and decorating delicious cakes and individual rose posies and were thrilled to be able to present them to each Carer as a thank-you for all they do.

All the teams also received homemade cakes and boxes full of treats from chocolates, sweets, biscuits and all the naughty things in life!

The residents also made hand drawn thank you cards and arranged flower posies. Again a massive thank you to all our fabulous care team for all they do, each and every day for our residents.

We were lucky enough to be an official stop on Day 3 of the Tour de Barchester cycle challenge and Residents and Staff were delighted to welcome the cycling team to a much-needed pit-stop at our home.

The riders were thrilled to receive a motorcycle escort down our driveway ridden by our Head Chef, John assisted by his pillion passenger, Tracy our Admin Assistant. They were welcomed by flag-waving, cheering Residents and Staff and celebrated on our winner’s podium which had been made by our Maintenance Manager, John.

The cycling team then enjoyed a delicious lunch provided by the homes talented hospitality team and a beautiful carrot cake and Tour de Barchester branded cookies made by our General Manager, Kirsty. The aim of this challenge was to raise money for the many charities the Barchester Foundation support and our home are proud to have raised £200 by riding the equivalent 250 miles of the tour on an exercise bike!

This was truly a team effort where our Residents and all of the departments at our home have been involved and an event which everyone enjoyed and has made us proud!

We celebrated 10 years of service to Sarah Pearce!

Well done Sarah on such a huge milestone! Sarah previously worked within the care team, but has since moved to the hospitality team.

John, Head Chef presented Sarah with her award, gold pin and flowers.

Thank you for your dedication to your residents and colleagues Sarah and a massive thank you.

Enjoy! Love Kirsty and the whole team x

This week our Residents were delighted to welcome two new and unusual woolly friends into their home.

Teddy and Carlos are two large but extremely well-behaved alpacas who came all the way from Knightley Alpaca Trekking in Stafford with their humans to spend an afternoon with us. And our Residents (and staff!) just loved them!

Teddy and Carlos visited all three of our communities at Iddenshall Hall & Beeston View, even meeting some of our Residents in their own rooms. They are such intuitive animals who seemed to sense when they needed to be especially calm and gentle. Their visit was so successful and fun and we cannot wait to welcome them back soon!

With the wonderful weather we're having, we celebrated World Cocktail Day in our gardens!

We started preparing the cocktails, adding fresh fruit like oranges and strawberries. In the other, we added cucumber and mint, we also used lemonade and ice, plus grenadine & Pimms.

The residents joined in, and everyone was happy, enjoying the flavour of their drinks and a pleasant conversation. It was a lovely afternoon and we've all now found the taste for what we'd like next time the sun is out!

The residents at Iddenshall Hall & Beeston View really enjoyed celebrating Valentine's Day together by making, decorating and, of course, tasting delicious heart-shaped biscuits and enjoying juicy strawberries, all accompanied by a glass of sparkling pink fizz!   

Our residents enjoyed the day making and tasting a cup of hot chocolate!

Each one added a special filling, choosing between marshmallows, grated chocolate, dark or white, etc. We also accompanied them with cakes of 2 flavours.

It was a sweet morning with a chocolate flavour.

We had a fantastic evening with live music of clarinet and flute from "Miles" and his accompanist.

Miles is the nephew of one of our residents, and he gives us a musical moment every year, which our residents really enjoy. 

They also enjoyed a glass of sherry and mince pies while listening to music.

The residents enjoyed baking their own typical Christmas cookies. 

We started by mixing the ingredients while one of them read the recipe, then we used the dough and each one chose shapes with the moulds we had, it was very fun.

The results were delicious, we all tasted and enjoyed the flavour of our Christmas cookies.