Activities at Bere Grove Care Home

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.

Enriching life
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Hollie Wren

Activities Co-ordinator

Hi, I'm Hollie. I have worked in healthcare for six years taking on a variety of roles. I am so proud to be heading up the activity team and supporting our residents with a life-enriching programme of events. I am highly motivated and love sharing my creative and imaginative side with everyone. I truly believe age is just a number and there is nothing we cannot achieve if we work together. 

I like to create a person-centred activity programme so each resident gets the opportunity to enjoy what they love. This is their time to relax, enjoy and have fun.

Life-encriching activities booklet Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.

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 Bere Grove Care Home

Ladies that Latte

Who doesn’t enjoy time with friends, playing scrabble with a fresh cream latte and some homemade cake. These ladies can get quite competitive, but always fill the home with their fun and laughter.

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Men's Club

Bere Grove's Men's club in full swing. Our gentlemen love nothing more than tinkering with old parts, fixing things that are broken and chatting over old times. When a model railway was donated they couldn't wait to get involved and help get it set up and working again. Now they play. 

Getting Ready For Christmas

We have been putting up the decorations and today we sat down to a wonderful poetry class which brought even more Christmas spirit! Residents came together to make our Christmas poem 2024:

Its Christmas time at Bere Grove, the residents are ready. Stockings on the door, the flow of mince pies steady. The turkey is in the oven, or maybe a nut roast. The bubbly is in the fridge, the cards are in the post. The Christmas tree is sparkling, the fairy is on the top. Christmas lights shimmer, and Rudolph will soon stop. Santa’s got the presents, for this festive time on earth. So let us celebrate this Christmas, the Christ child’s birth.

Exercise Day

Here at Bere Grove we’ve had a visit from fitness instructor Bonnie. Bonnie got our residents moving with seated exercises using beanbag throws to improve hand eye coordination, balloon squeezes and passes, tug of war with a resistance band and lots of whole body stretching. All the residents really enjoyed learning how to stay active. 
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Christmas Tree Festival

Our wonderful residents have taken part in Blendworth Church’s Christmas tree festival and have donated a Christmas tree which was decorated by our residents!  All ornaments were hand made by residents, including hand crafted and painted baubles and knitted decorations.  The residents had a wonderful time and enjoyed looking at all the different trees at the church.

Playing the Organ

Having recently had this beautiful organ arrive at Bere Grove following one of our wonderful residents kind donation. Residents have been able to play the organ and showcase some wonderful skills and entertain their friends and family members