Activities at Braeburn Lodge Care Home
Our dedicated activities team are constantly dreaming up new and wonderful ways to support and stimulate the residents we look after. From trips to crafts, parties to skittles, musical performances and quizzes, we include something for everyone and pride ourselves on including everyone into the fun. We have a brilliant team of volunteers who help us to deliver more trips, support us at events and pop in for a cup of tea and chat. We have pet therapy at least once per week (sometimes twice!) and we take advantage of every school break by holding large scale events that we can invite families with children to. We have been developing ties with our neighbours since we first opened and thanks to this, we have successfully brought together our residents with local churches, choirs, Brownies groups, and schools. Whatever your interests are, here at Braeburn, there's something for everyone.
Yasmine Dawson
I have worked at Braeburn Lodge since 2015. I started working as a carer and the activities side of the role really appealed to me. We organise a variety of activities to suit everybody’s preferences and abilities. I enjoy working at Braeburn and making a difference to the residents’ lives.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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 Braeburn Lodge Care Home
Braeburn Lodge supports local charity
We had our open day this weekend at Braeburn Lodge. It was a lot of fun, with lots of people attending the event.
The money we raised on the day will be use to support our local Pet refuge.
The Exotic Pet Refuge was founded in 1984, and is a small charity that provides a permanent home to a large variety of unwanted and neglected exotic animals from all kinds of backgrounds - private owners, RSPCA, zoos that closed down... the list goes on.
We will be handing a cheque to them very soon with the money we raised at the Open Day.
Home baking at Braeburn Lodge
What a delight we had one afternoon, baking on Memory Lane with our residents went down a storm! Residents and staff beat the eggs and mixed all the ingredients together, which got everyone talking about the cakes they used to make …The lemon drizzle cakes went down very well with a cup of tea!
We can’t wait for the next time!
A sad farewell at Braeburn Lodge
The staff and residents gave a very emotional farewell to one of our long serving nurses, her career spans over 41 years of nursing and is now retiring to enjoy her life with her family and friends.
Well done and congratulations to you, now it’s time for feet up and long holidays. We wish Lydia all the best.
15 Years of Service
General Manager, Daniela Phillips, presented our outstanding 15 Year Service Award to Administrator, Nicola Middlebrook, thanking her for all of her hard work and commitment at Barchester over the last 15 years.
Young Explorers
Our local Explorers visited us recently.
They weeded and replanted our raised flower beds in the courtyard garden, which is now awash with colour. They also unpacked and built our new garden furniture; we had quite a production line going.
It’s a pleasure relaxing in the garden, which is private and pretty for all to enjoy.
Thank you to the young people for coming to the home and meeting staff and residents.
Morning Exercise
We had a fun-filled morning exercising to upbeat music with Danni from Boogie Beat. There was no chance of us just sitting and watching, as her energy is so infectious. We went from a warm up of stretching to a crescendo of pom-poms!
It was a great morning to get us all in the mood and fully energised for the rest of the day. There were so many laughs; even the General Manager joined in with this activity.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Counting down to Christmas and looking forward to a fun filled month ahead and we extend a warm invitation for you to join us - all welcome.
Looking for a place to hold a meeting
For more information why not pop in and see what Braeburn Lodge can offer you.
Coffee Morning - 1st Tuesday of the month
We extend a warm invitation for you to join us at our monthly coffee morning, come along and make new friends - all welcome from 10.00 am on the first Tuesday of the month.
Don't dine alone - every Friday
Join us every Friday from 12.30 until14.30 as we welcome the seniors in our communiuty to take advantage of our hospitality and join us for a nutritious lunch at Braeburn Lodge.
Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
Calling all emergency services personnel, come and take a break with us - we offer a warm welcome and a hot drink, there may be a cake to two available!
