Activities at Stamford Bridge Beaumont Care Home

With Valentine’s day just around the corner, we have been busy knitting colourful pom-poms to create our heart themed decorations as we celebrate the month of love!

Our residents are very excited to take part in this year’s Big Garden Birdwatch and they got their binoculars and bird books out to support the initiative.

The RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch is an annual event to try to understand what is happening to our native birds. The idea is to log all the birds you see in your garden, from your window or in your local park in a one hour period any time between January 28th and 30th. Last year over 1 million people took part and between them they counted 17 million birds. 

Our residents had a brilliant time filling up birdfeeders to attract the birds before they got started and then looking up the different species in their bird books to make sure they were logging them correctly.

Happy birthday to our lovely resident Grace, 90 today. Grace enjoyed a visit from her daughter and received lots of flowers, cards and good wishes from family and friends.  Staff and residents helped Grace celebrate this wonderful milestone in style, with a tea party, which was thoroughly enjoyed by Grace and her friends this afternoon.

Stamford Bridge Beaumont care home in Stamford Bridge is launching three grants totalling £30,000 in the name of a former Barchester resident, Jeanette Gill, who generously donated part of her legacy to Barchester’s Charitable Foundation.  The Foundation is calling for deserving local charities and community groups to apply for these special awards.

Named in her memory, the Jeanette Gill Special Awards are open to groups and individuals in need in our local community, and will be awarded to projects that enrich lives and encourage an active lifestyle through arts, music, sports and culture for older people or adults with a disability, or those that may have challenges with mental health.

Residents made the most of the dry milder weather yesterday with a walk around our gardens, nothing quite like some fresh air straight after Christmas.

Celebrations have been in full swing at Stamford Bridge Beaumont, as one of its residents reaches her centenary in style.

Vera Shoesmith was joined by staff, relatives and other residents as she received a telegram from the Queen in recognition of her landmark birthday. A special party was held at the home and residents enjoyed a special birthday cake made for Vera.

Vera was born on 7th January 1922 in Portsmouth where she lived until her marriage in 1944.She worked at St James Hospital and then joined the Wrens.

She met Bert who was a Royal Marine and they had 2children, Laraine and David. They travelled in this country and abroad with Bert’s postings finally settling in Portsmouth. They moved to a retirement home in Oakley in January 2015 to live nearer to family. When the family relocated to Yorkshire in 2019 Vera came with them .Vera is now living at Barchester Stamford Bridge and is enjoying a new chapter in her life near to all the family.