Activities at Prestbury Beaumont Care Community

Tour de Barchester 2025 – What an Incredible Ride!

From 10th to 13th June, the annual Tour de Barchester made its grand return – and what a journey it’s been.

Over 4 days, our amazing team, led by Simon McCall, Commercial Director, and Shona Conway, Project Co-ordinator, cycled an impressive 225 miles from Dumfries to Cheshire, stopping at 17 Barchester care homes along the way.

We were lucky enough to be their penultimate stop on the last day, and what a time we had! It was brilliant to see them knowing the hard work they had put into their week, and welcomed them in in the sunshine with ice lollies and refreshments at the ready We were also joined by David, The Mayor of Cheshire East Council who welcomed the cyclists to Prestbury Beaumont alongside our Residents before sending them off to their final stop at Adlington Manor Care Home - Barchester Healthcare

Together with colleagues, friends and members of the community, we’ve raised funds and awareness for Barchester's Charitable Foundation – and most importantly, brought smiles and plenty of fun to all involved.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who participated and supported us. Here’s to next year’s ride!

To support the team, please donate here: https://www.justgiving.com/page/tour-de-barchester-25

Is it a bird? No, it's a plane! This morning we had a lovely trip to the airport pub hotel where we watched the planes coming in to land from Manchester Airport. We're very lucky to have such a fascinating stop not that far from us, so we took advantage of the clear and sunny morning to go and see who and what we could spot! We had teas and coffees, and most of all we had a amazing time! Lots of smiles and enjoyment for all.

This morning we took our residents on a visit to Gawsworth! We walked around the beautiful village, looking at the wonderful scenery and chatted to a local lady that recommended we visit Gawsworth Hub Community Café and Shop. We had refreshments and chatted with the excellent volunteer staff, we all had a lovely time and we will definitely be returning.

Our residents really enjoyed this week's session of Gardening Club! This week's request was hanging baskets! They really wanted to make some more baskets to display around our gardens and the outside of our home. It was lots of fun, they chose which flowers they wanted to use and Chris, our Gardener, made sure they had everything they needed. Look at them all finished! They look very bright and beautiful, and we had a great time making them.

As part of Barchester’s digital transformation, Prestbury Beaumont went live today with our new Customer Relationship Management system - ConneX.

ConneX supports and helps manage the journey from enquiry to admission with everything in the system connected together which supports us in providing an exceptional customer experience. 

We celebrated the occassion by decorating our reception area and baking cupcakes for residents and their families to enjoy!

Our Head chef’s daughter, Holly, gave birth to a beautiful little girl, called Savanah, and our lovely residents wanted to knit her some hats and blankets that she could wear. Savanah was born twelve weeks early, at 706 grams, and had a valve that wasn’t closed on her heart. We were all really worried about her as she had been in hospital for 112 days and had been in five different hospital wards. However, Savanah had a lot of love and support around her and this meant that our lovely residents, including Liz, Audrey and Wendy, worked really hard to make sure baby Savanah had warm and cosy blankets she could cuddle into. She is now back home with her mum and the residents got to meet and cuddle her for the first time during their knit and natter activity last week.

Calling all tea lovers! We decided to put on a tea tasting afternoon in order to wake everybody’s taste buds up. Some residents had mentioned they use to love herbal and flavoured tea so we started brewing loose tea in order to try and get the resident’s brains ticking as to what they thought they were drinking. Everybody scored each tea out of ten and came to the conclusion that they all loved Egyptian mint tea, which was the winner and scored a 7.5 out of 10!

This week our lovely Alan wanted to visit the beautiful town of Moberly, to reminisce and visit one of his favourite pubs, where he use to drink every week. Alan has very fond memories of living in Moberly and had wished to take a trip down memory lane by going for a drink in one of his locals. We all shared lots of laughter as Alan told us such wonderful memories about how he use to go out drinking in Moberly, while we tucked into some yummy fish and chips and Alan tried the pub ales they had on cask. We all loved receiving a tour from Alan as we drove to and from Moberly, learning about the town and where Alan grew up.

Celebrations have been in full swing at Prestbury Beaumont as one of its residents reached her centenary in style. Margaret was joined by staff, relatives, friends and other residents as she celebrated this momentous occasion.

Cath Ritchie, General Manager said: “We’re delighted to be celebrating a truly remarkable woman as she reaches this amazing milestone. Margaret is such a popular resident who always has an interesting tale to tell, and we look forward to hearing many more as she breaks into her next century.”

Birthday Greetings! 

Birthdays are a firm fixture on the homes life enrichment programme and Resident, Lilian recently celebrated her birthday and was presented with a delicious home-made birthday cake, especially prepared by the homes hospitality team.

Happy Birthday, Lilian from everyone at Prestbury Beaumont.

We are delighted to introduce you to David the Owl who stands proudly in our beautiful extensive grounds for all to see.  David the Owl was very generously donated to the home by a relative. A massive thank you for all at Prestbury Beaumont.

Congratulations go to our administration team here at Prestbury as winners of our inter-departmental wreath making competition. Our regular in-house competitions make a little friendly competition and whole home approach whilst we show our creative sides.  What shall we challenge each other too next?

In the build up to the big day, residents enjoyed a trip out to popular garden centre – Woodford Garden Centre.. Woodford Garden centre offers a wonderful day out to visitors – it’s a great place to meet up and enjoy a spot of shopping and a place to eat in its restaurant or café area.

Everyone thoroughly enjoyed taking time to admire all the impressive Christmas displays, trees and decorations on offer and stopped off for refreshments in the cafe.

It was a really festive outing and we’d loved that festive feeling!