Activities at Beaufort Grange Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Lucy Lock
Hello, I am Lucy and I have worked at Beaufort Grange since 2015, starting as a care assistant I have progressed to senior care assistant and now into my role as an Activities Assistant. It's always a pleasure to keep the residents updated with community activities. What I enjoy about my job is making everyone laugh and keeping residents and staff entertained. You will often hear me singing as I walk down the corridor!
Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Beaufort Grange Care Home
Christmas Cake
The hospitality team at Beaufort Grange put their heads together and donned their aprons to come up with the most amazing Christmas cake decorated to perfection.
Their fabulous cake is designed as a train travelling around a Christmas tree on the train tracks and consists of delicious ingredients such as dried fruit and walnuts, doused with brandy and covered in marzipan and fondant icing.
Jason said “I had a vision of an old school tree surrounded by presents and wanted there to be a magical element to it. So the working toy train brought it all to life. I felt it would remind Beaufort Grange residents of Christmases when they were younger as many of them would have had a train set that brought hours of enjoyment as a child. I was thrilled to be able to bring my vision to fruition exactly as I had seen it. The tree itself had a wooden dowel for support but was made up of hundreds of handmade fondant branches and the beautifully wrapped presents were also edible, made from mini Battenberg sponge and fondant icing.
I have never entered a competition before but have been bringing to life imaginative cakes for family birthdays for years including a full sized Yoda for my brothers 21st.”
Halloween Celebrations
We had an incredibly exciting Halloween celebration!
Our sister home, Cepen Lodge, joined us for the festivities, all decked out in fabulous witch costumes!
The atmosphere was electric as we gathered over delicious coffee and an array of spooky cakes and biscuits crafted by our talented catering team.
The excitement reached new heights with a parade of spooky trick-or-treaters knocking at our door, we couldn't get enough of the creative costumes and the cheerful screams of delight as we handed out treats.
The night was filled with laughter, fun games, and a magical sense of community that made this Halloween unforgettable!
This Halloween was a perfect blend of spooky and fun, and we can't wait for next year's celebration!
Happy Diwali
We celebrated this year with another dance provided by Dr Praveen, a physiotherapist who visits residents at Beaufort Grange and his family. This is becoming a much loved tradition in our home, staff and residents were encouraged to dance with them and loved learning some new moves. We then all had a taste of India where we tried some of their sweets.
Dr Gupta, a resident at our home, said he felt really blessed getting to celebrate Diwali with us all.
Macmillan’s Biggest Coffee Morning
What a fantastic day we had on for Macmillan’s Biggest Coffee Morning where we all got together and generously raised £100 to go towards Macmillan’s Cancer Support.
Thank you to the volunteers that helped, those that baked the delicious cakes and to Mini Concerts for their fabulous Top of the World tour, all our residents, visitors and staff were singing, clapping and dancing along.
ALIVE Gardening
We have had an exciting few months as ALIVEgardening and the University of Bristol chose our home for their Hoppiness Project.
Residents had the opportunity to plant, grow, and harvest hops, fostering connections between residents, staff and the community.
The hops were taken to The Left Handed Giant Brewery in Bristol to be brewed. We got to enjoy a visit to the brewery and have a tour and then we tried the beer called, Backyard Bounty, made from our hops, residents said it was a really good beer.
We were interviewed by BBC Points West, we will also be featured in the BBC’s The One Show, so keep an eye out for us in the news.
This experience has created many wonderful memories, filled with laughter, and even a few beers to taste!
Emergency Services Day
On Monday, September 9th, we celebrated Emergency Services Day by hosting a free breakfast for all emergency workers at our home. Sam and her team from staple Hill joined us for a chat, coffee, and breakfast roll. We also presented them with goody bags filled with homemade treats to show our appreciation for their hard work. Sam and her team were very grateful for the gesture.
During the event, one of our residents, John, shared a fond memory from his childhood. He reminisced about a time when he went scrumping, which involves stealing fruit from an orchard. John recalled how he was once caught by the police, but his main concern was his mother’s reaction rather than getting in trouble with the authorities.
