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…

Lotus Manor Care Home

Successful Bridge Club Launches

We launched our new Bridge Club at Lotus Manor. Please call 01483 359340 for more information about joining our club.

Lotus Manor Celebrates 1st Birthday

We had a wonderful garden party to celebrate our first year anniversary, with local businesses, residents, family and friends.

Ball Exercise Fun

Keeping active with Ball Exercise

We know that keeping fit and active is important for lots of reasons and we not only make sure we get to be active but we make it fun too!

Mallard Court Care Home

Mallard Strolls

Neighbourhood Strolls - A group of our residents loved getting out for a walk around the neighbourhood with Emma and Manda!

Mallard Court Care Home

Flower Arranging

Our residents enjoyed a morning of colourful flower-arranging activity in the lounge.

The newly created bouquets took pride of place in the dining room adding additional colourful displays for all to enjoy.

Hilton Park Care Home

Recognise our Dementia Champion

A huge shoutout to our incredible Dementia Champion, Kim!

Seeing an opportunity to enhance our sensory care provision, Kim proactively reached out to Comfort Dolls & Twiddles to request donated resources for our residents. Thanks to her initiative, they generously gifted us a wonderful collection of hand-crafted therapy dolls, sensory twiddle mats, knitted blankets, and tactile activity sleeves!

Thank you, Kim, for your dedication to person-centred care and for always going above and beyond to enrich the lives of our residents! And a massive thank you to Comfort Dolls & Twiddles for their wonderful generosity.

Country and Western Summer Fayre

After 5 heatwaves the day came for our summer fayre and so did the rain! This didn't dampen our spirits and as Gina says "the sun always shines at Parley"

We had a fabulous time, Kelly Lorriane entertained us with country songs, dancing and set a great atmosphere. We had stalls selling local crafts. Children's game area, the gorgeous Sammy and Tiddlewinks from Pony n Paws saying hello.

Katie from Love to Move Dorset came along and helped the residents do some seated line dancing for us all before the staff and guests took to the floor lead by our lovely Sherry.

Our kitchen team did a fabulous job serving hog roast, cowboy beans, cakes and drinks.

It was so great we didn't even notice the rain, had great fun and raised just over £400 for the wonderful MS Centre Dorset

Bere Grove Care Home

August Employee of the Month

As a dedicated carer, Molly consistently goes above and beyond for both residents and colleagues. Her kindness, patience and unwavering commitment shines though in everything she does.

A Little Baking! A lot of Laughter!

Our residents had a wonderful time making cupcakes! There was plenty of concentration as everyone carefully weighed and measured the ingredients, it’s serious business when you’re aiming for the perfect bake!

Of course, there were also plenty of giggles and smiles along the way as residents enjoyed each other’s company and had fun together.

Baking is a favourite activity here, and it’s easy to see why. From weighing and mixing to the wonderful smells filling the room, there’s something special about creating delicious treats together.

And, of course, the best part is enjoying the delicious end results! Well done to our wonderful bakers