Activities at Boroughbridge Manor Care Home

The homes administrator has received a prestigious 10 Year Service Award in celebration of working at Barchester Healthcare for 10 years. Louisa Pedder,  started at Barchester in April 2014 and has worked with residents and their relatives to ensure that their needs have been met over the years.

Nicole Benn, Operations Manager said: “We’re delighted to be celebrating 10 years of loyal service with Louisa. She has demonstrated her dedication and loyalty to this home and its residents year after year. I speak for all of us here at Boroughbridge Manor when I say that I’m looking forward to many more years of working with Louisa.

We had a brilliant time across our services with Harrogate Skills 4 Living as they took us on a wonderful virtual visit to their Harrogate Chocolate Factory.

Residents were thrilled to discover details about the chocolate-making process and the fascinating journey from bean to bar, all while enjoying some delicious sweet treats.

The Factory aims to employ people with learning disabilities and autism, involving them in all parts of the process, from sorting and roasting the beans to packaging and sales. The experience was truly enjoyed by all who joined this event.

Staff and residents joined fellow keen gamers from over 250 Barchester care homes and hospitals across the whole of the UK, including Wales, Scotland, Jersey and the Isle of Wight, to compete in the latest event in the Barchester Goes Gaming series – Beat The Clock!

The inaugural Beat The Clock Quiz, Barchester’s version of Countdown, took place on 26th March 2024 when Boroughbridge Manor got super competitive and took on its sister homes from all over the country to find out which Barchester home or hospital was the best at word puzzles, crunching numbers and solving conundrums.  It was dictionaries at the ready as the homes battled it out to discover who would prevail.

What better way to celebrate St Patrick’s day than with a good old Irish knees up!

To mark the occasion we welcomed Kim and Dave back to the home to perform a variety of our favourite hits! Kim and Dave always know how to get the crowd going and on their first number, of course we were straight up there, dancing away! The bar was open, serving the traditional Guinness a plenty and some ‘shamrockaritas’ for those who preferred something with a bit more fizz! The afternoon saw us take a look at Irish history as we learnt all about Irish traditions and the best tourist hotspots, from one of our Irish residents, who still enjoys a visit over there from time to time. A brilliant day, enjoyed by us all here and by so many of our families too!

This year to support the Red Nose Day campaign and their mission to end child poverty, we set ourselves a challenge to ride 100km on the bike! Everyone got involved and what great fun we had doing so, as we took turns to pedal a few km each to reach our goal! Residents of course helped out fundraising too! We spent a morning baking Red Nose Day themed biscuits together as treats to refuel those on the bike, and some residents even hopped on the bike and pedalled a few meters themselves! We would like to thank everyone who has sponsored us, everyone who pedalled and all those who came along to cheer us along the way and we are thrilled to announce we’ve managed to raise a fantastic amount of £181 for Comic Relief !

From 11th to the 17th of March, we took part in nutrition and hydration week. Both good nutrition and hydration are important to maintain good physical and mental, health and well-being.

Residents came together and worked as a creative team to make some delicious fruit smoothies upstairs with Suzanne, including a sweet ‘berry blast’ and a ‘kiwi kick start’ full of greens!

Later in the week Leoni and the kitchen team prepared delicious fruit platters and fruit infused flavoured waters, which were available to everyone throughout the home! What a delicious way to spend our days!