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…

Highfield Care Home

Making Christmas-themed gingerbread men!

Our residents enjoyed a lovely afternoon in the Activities Room making their very own gingerbread men, as part of our festive-themed activities in the build up to Christmas. Among the tasty gingerbread men made by our residents were Frank and Ted, who looked fantastic... and tasted even better!

Perfect Pitch Stars music students perform Christmas Carols!

The talented young singers, aged between 7 and 11 years old, from Perfect Pitch Stars music and drama school returned to Highfield to perform a fun and festive selection of Christmas carols! Our residents absolutely loved the performance and were excited to welcome them back, after their previous visit to perform The Wizard of Oz stage play back in October.

Bere Grove Raises Funds for Age Concern Cowplain

Bere Grove Care Home visited Age Concern Cowplain to present a cheque for the money raised from the Christmas Fair held on Sunday 7 December. Thanks to the enthusiasm and the generosity of families, local businesses, and supporters £180 was raised. Age Concern Cowplain, is such a valuable organisation supporting older people within the community.

Julie at Age Concern expressed her thanks, “We are incredibly thankful to Bere Grove Care Home for choosing Age Concern Cowplain as the charity to support at this annual event. This contribution makes a real difference to the older people we help every day, and we are truly appreciative of the kindness shown by everyone involved.”

It wouldn't be Christmas without a visit from The Grinch

Recently Hazel Lodge was plagued by a complete menace! A real trouble maker, that's right Mrs Grinch was causing carnage around the home 💚💚We forgave her slightly as she did bring an amazing DJ and Karaoke with her. So while she was causing trouble around the home at least we were having a great time singing and dancing. Thank you to Mrs Grinch aka Rose and Mark the DJ. We had such a fun afternoon.

Christmas Cards with Claverham

Thank you to the wonderful pupils from Claverham Community College who recently came in to make Christmas cards with our residents. The children were so polite and full of conversation with our residents. They took the time to go around the home and chat to everyone. Thank you Claverham, it was lovely to see you. We look forward to seeing you for Christmas carols very soon.

Fitness Friday at Bayleaf

Fitness Friday at Bayleaf never fails to inspire us all.

Once again we were joined by Liam Rushmer PT for a morning of activities. After some light chair exercises, the residents were only too happy to engage in a competitive game of balloon tennis.

There was a lot of laughter throughout the room and the residents showed a very impressive set of skills.

We ended the morning with a well earned hot drink and a snack and we are already looking forward to seeing Liam and the team again.

Bere Grove Raises Money for Age Concern Cowplain

Darcy Gardens Care Home

Menu Taster Event

This week we hosted a special taster event at Darcy Gardens so people could sample some of the delicious food we will be serving our residents.

We invited people from some local charities to join us as we wanted to not only get to know them more and hear about the wonderful work they do but also to say thank you for all they done in their communities this year!

Kings Park Care Home

Christmas Carols

We were absolutely delighted to see the children of Ferndown First School singing this week at Kings Park.

They made all our residents so happy with their beautiful voices, it was wonderful to watch. The children sang most of the classics and really spread some Christmas cheer. We can't wait to welcome them again soon!