Activities at Meadowbeck Care Home

Residents at Barchester Healthcare’s Meadowbeck care home, in York, celebrated Mother’s Day with visits and video calls from family members near and far. The home was beautifully decorated with fresh flowers and bunting for the occasion.

Staff at Meadowbeck hosted an Afternoon Tea with live entertainment from Les Hodgson, who played all-time sing along classics for everyone to sing along to.  Our Kitchen team, Paddy and Denise prepared a selection of delicious savoury and sweet treats including themed cupcakes and homemade scones accompanied with tea, coffee and a glass of prosecco.

General Manager, Annaliza Kemp said: “We’ve all had a really lovely day.  It has been so good to see family members who were able to visit in person and to have video calls with those who are further away.  Our residents enjoyed a fantastic lunch and then a delicious afternoon tea prepared by our brilliant chefs. Days like these are so special.”

As part of our International Women’s Day celebrations, Residents from across our services were thrilled to join tour guide, Mandy Morrow, for an exciting talk about some Legendary London Ladies.

Mandy shared the fascinating stories of eight ladies with us, from the one of the richest heiresses in the world to the original 'Roaring Girl'.

Everyone who participated truly enjoyed the experience and were delighted to take a walk down memory lane.

Across the country our homes and hospitals came together to find out which care home or hospital had the best Bingo players as they teamed up for Barchester’s Bingo Bonanza.

Residents were treated to some exciting virtual games of Bingo as part of Barchester’ very own game show series.

Everyone who participated had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.

Our lovely residents and colleagues came together this afternoon for a lovely flower arranging master class courtesy of Tina our Home Activities Coordinator.

Our residents thoroughly enjoyed discussing the different smells, colours and names of flowers. We discussed the beautiful gardens that surround us, and what flowers we see as the seasons change.

Meadowbeck hosted our Blue Light Breakfast as a Thank you to our local and much cherished emergency services, community nurses and our local GP’s to pop along and join us for a free light breakfast with a freshly baked pastry, accompanied with fresh fruit juices and tea or coffee.

It was lovely to welcome our local GP and community nurse who visits the home on a regular basis.

Our “Blue Light Breakfast” mornings are held on the last Monday of the month.

At Meadowbeck we believe that every Birthday is important and deserves to be celebrated, making our residents feel special.

Thea had a lovely surprise when Casandra, our Unit manager on Memory Lane turned up to visit her and took her for a shopping trip to Marks and Spencer.

Thea had a lovely day browsing the clothing department where she could treat herself, stopping off for delicious coffee and cake at costa coffee and visiting the shambles in the town centre.

Thea had yet another surprise upon returning back to the home as team members presented her with a birthday cake made by our Head Chef Daniel, singing "Happy Birthday".

Thea had a wonderful day!