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…

Mount House and Severn View

Vintage Afternoon Tea

This week, our residents have enjoyed another selection of activities and entertainment.

They enjoyed a delightful Vintage tea afternoon, with Darren the Perry Chef creating an amazing selection of delicious cream cakes for everyone to enjoy. It was a huge success and thoroughly enjoyed by all, with plenty of smiles and happy faces throughout the afternoon, and our lovely ladies & Gents evening always full of lots of fun and laughter.

Shawford Springs Care Home

Our History Club Comes Alive at Netley Abbey

We recently took a fascinating trip to Netley Abbey in Southampton. We enjoyed exploring the atmospheric ruins and spending time discovering more about the abbey’s long and fascinating history.
From its medieval beginnings to the stories of those who lived there over the centuries, there was plenty to discover and discuss. A lovely day out combining history, fresh air and a little bit of exploring, bringing our regular History Club to life!

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