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Celebrating life at Barchester
We celebrate life through everything we do, from our thoughtful experiences and activities to our delicious food. We offer the latest technology as well as sensory engagement to nurture the wellbeing of our residents. With a wide variety of tailored activities and events we make sure our residents have the best physical, mental, spiritual and social stimulation, all bespoke to them. Take a look at what we’ve been up to…
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Festive Musical Moments
We were wonderfully entertained by the amazing Jess from musical moments recently. Jess has an amazing ability to get everybody engaged, and it's fabulous to see everybody joining in and having such festive fun.
Christmas Fayre
We had the most amazing time at our annual Christmas Fayre held on the 6th of December. There was something for everybody including local stallholders, meet Santa, tombola, food and drink stalls and also the chance to visit Narnia!
Our residents had the most amazing time, and we’d like to thank everybody who made the day such a success and also the support we receive from the local community.
It means so much to all of us.
A Christmas visit from Jenny!
We had a wonderful visit from Jenny the donkey at our Christmas fayre.
She spent the afternoon greeting guests and visiting residents around the home, bringing smiles and happiness to everyone she met.
Christmas wreath making worship
We got creative with Christmas wreath making for the Christmas Fayre.
The wreaths look fantastic, and everyone worked so hard, especially our chief bow maker, Skigh!
The craft club was especially popular this month as we were making items to raise funds for Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary and the dementia-friendly hug dolls for the home.
Space to Be Museum Visit
We enjoyed a wonderful trip to the Space to Be at the Scarborough Art Gallery.
We spent the afternoon making Christmas cards for our loved ones using all kinds of recycled paper, all while sipping a lovely cup of tea.
It was great to be joined by another local care home group, and everyone’s cards turned out absolutely amazing.
Pantomime!
We had our annual pantomime this afternoon! (Oh no we didn't!) ... We did!
It was Jack and the Beanstalk, and we loved it.
There was singing, dancing and a goose laying golden eggs! And one of our very own made her acting debut as Daisy the cow. Very well done Becca. "Oh how wonderful" and "they must come back next year" were just some of the comments from our residents.
Huge thank you to Northeast Producers Ltd
Christmas party
Christmas is always a Claus for celebration and our Christmas party was snow good!
We had a tree-mendous afternoon of singing and dancing.
The ukulele band got us up shaking our jingle bells with some old favourites and festive tunes.
Thank you to all those who helped us celebrate!
Christmas cake making
We had Louise, our friend who helps us with our baking activities, come in and help make and decorate our Christmas cake.
It was lovely to hear everyone’s traditions and how they made all their cakes with their families.
We learnt new skills in making edible flowers and leaves and using edible glitter to make the cake all sparkly.
Roller skating show
WOW! We rolled right into Christmas with a performance we hadn't seen before. BFD Ents, zoomed round our dining room and put on an amazing show!
We just couldn’t stop smiling and watching in awe at the talent.
We sang along to some classic rock and roll songs with a touch of Christmas.