Activities at Bedewell Grange Care Home

We’ve been making the most of the lovely weather and getting out and around our local area as part of our homes life enrichment programme. Our ladies have enjoyed visiting our local shopping centres and parks.

We have searched for squirrels and made friends with members of our local community, and we have enjoyed browsing round the shops and enjoyed having a peek through the sale rails.

We celebrated National Relaxation day with lots of treatments including facials using home-made facemasks and also spa masks made from Mediterranean olive oil.

Of course our pamper sessions aren’t just for the ladies. Our gentleman also enjoyed hot towel shaves and we had foot spas for everyone.

We also enjoyed treats from our tipple trolley. Our ladies said their skin was glowing and everyone felt very relaxed.

We are delighted to welcome Anna, our volunteer to join us for our life enrichment activities as we start our ‘autumn project. Anna graduated from Nottingham Trent University in textile design.

Anna has a passion for combining creativity and health together, as well as improving peoples wellbeing. We are using fabric and felts to design a piece of art to display within our home.

There is a lot of creativity at Bedewell and our residents enjoy sharing ideas.

Barchester care homes and hospitals nationwide linked together for a fantastic quiz in celebration of Barchester’s 100th live virtual event.

Residents engaged in a variety of questions ranging from historical trivia to visual puzzles and brainteasers.

For those joining everyone had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.

Our ladies enjoyed visiting and learning of the Anglo Saxons and the change in farming. The buildings are developed and built on archaeological evacuations carried out in Northumberland.

Our Ladies enjoyed feeding the animals and visiting the huts. Our ladies found the experience really interesting especially Ruby who was evacuated to a farm during the war. We find it important to get out and around our local area as it helps keep us socialised and helps keep us motivated and and improves our spirit.

Here at Bedewell we enjoy baking sessions which brings back allot of memories of Sundays which were baking days. Our residents like to share recipes and reminisce of the good old days. We baked a ham and cheese a pizza which we baked from scratch including the base which was mixed and rolled out into the tin before adding our toppings. There is always a team spirit with our residents helping each other.