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.
Hollie Wren
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.
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
The Reverend Dr Coleen Jackson
Here at Bere Grove, we were so lucky to have our Church service taken by the Reverend Dr Coleen Jackson, who serves for the parishes of Rowlands Castle, Blendworth, Chalton and Idsworth.
What a fabulous, interesting lady.
Coleen's friend and colleague Annie Reeve also visited our residents.
We now have a whole programme of events leading up to Christmas to be delivered to our residents and friends from the local community.
Thank you Coleen and Annie, it wad great meeting you, see you very soon.
Sing-along-a-Matt
Earlier this month we had the pleasure of welcoming our first external entertainer, Mr Matt O'Neill, he definitely delivered an amazing show.
Many of our residents and staff joined him, singing and dancing along to classic songs of the 60's and 70's.
We all really enjoyed ourselves and are looking forward to Matt coming back to entertain us again.
Pearl and Ruby
Helping our two new married residents move in today were these two lovely girls, Pearl and Ruby.
The girls are Lurtcher's and although they wernt much help with the new residents unpacking our residents and staff here at Bere Grove were very impressed to meet such well behaved young ladies.
Blast's from the Past
Earlier this week our residents enjoyed our first Vinyl club and what an absolute blast from the past it was too!
We listened to some classic music such as Pavarotti, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Clayderman and many many more.
Residents and staff are now eagerly awaiting our next 'Vinyl Club'
These vinyl's were so kindly donated to us from a lovely couple in Southsea, from all at Bere Grove thank you very much!!
Fun on our fabulous Magic Table
Recently our residents had their first impressions of our Magic Table and thoroughly enjoyed a classic game of fruit ninja!
Our magic table has the benefits of a much larger screen than a phone or tablet, everything becomes LIFESIZE. With a screen this big and that makes reading, seeing and listening much easier for those with impairments.
Scientists have found that seniors who play online games improve their memory and help maintain other cognitive skills. These apps can also significantly reduce confusion and increase ease of use, and above all, its great fun
Bere Bake Off
Our ladies love to bake. So that's exactly what they did. Donning aprons and gloves they took to the satellite kitchen to prepare and bake a beautiful sponge cake. Mary Berry eat your heart out. We are sure this will be a firm favourite activity for all.
