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.
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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
Residents Celebrate Their 63rd Wedding Anniversary
Mr. Michael Coates and Mrs Mary Coates celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary recently at Braeburn Lodge.
They celebrated with a lovely lunch prepared by our chef, surrounded by cards, flowers and balloons.
The staff and residents joined Michael and Mary for afternoon tea.
Mr. & Mrs Coates were rather overwhelmed by the attention they received, but they both had a lovely day.
A Cheese & Wine Evening for The Alzheimer’s Society
We held a cheese & wine fundraising event for The Alzheimer’s Society and raised £60. Residents, families and staff all had a wonderful evening.
Braeburn Lodge welcomes two local groups for the afternoon
Braeburn Lodge welcomed 25 guests from two local groups – The Welcome Club & The Young at Heart Club, which are both local Deeping clubs for the over-65s.
They joined residents for an afternoon of games, quizzes and conversation.
The group stayed for dinner with us in the evening, where they enjoyed a fabulous 3 course meal.
All residents had a wonderful afternoon enjoying the company and conversation of these two very lively and vibrant groups.
Trisha Smith, who organises the two clubs, said, "We have all had the most wonderful afternoon. We have been made to feel so welcome and we all thoroughly enjoyed spending time with the residents of Braeburn Lodge. When can we come again?”
Braeburn Lodge supports work experience students
Braeburn Lodge is supporting two local students here on work experience from The Deepings School.
Lilly is working alongside our chef, Sonic, in the kitchen – she has made some amazing cakes for the residents, which are now being affectionately called ‘Lilly’s Cakes’
Adam is working with Mark Johnson, our Head of Maintenance. Adam has been busy in the garden planting some more flowers and tidying it in preparation for the residents to enjoy in the summer.
Another Braeburn Bonanza!
Rose and Beverly were kind enough to put on a show for the residents, which had everything, from karaoke to dancing - and even quiz questions with prizes for the lucky winners! We had a fair number of residents at the microphone, and we were heard from downstairs with our very lively “Oi’s!" in our rendition of 'Lambeth Walk'.
Trudi Mason wakes up Braeburn!
We woke up to a dreary, wet day after our 3 day stretch of bright sunshine, but luckily, Trudi came along and brought the sun out for us on the dance floor, with her brilliant singing and lively personality. There were several dancers and twice as many singers - and we turned this raining, miserable day into one of laughing, fun and dancing! A big thank you to our two volunteers, Lynn and Ros, who provided the added entertainment of a little dance off to 'Blue Suede Shoes' - those were some funky moves that were too fast to be caught on camera!
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!
