Activities at Chalfont Lodge Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
Chalfont Lodge is a large care home and we have a diverse range of groups and events to ensure that everyone feels welcome and included. In the Lifestyle team we work hard to create a sense of community and ensure there is always someone to talk to and something to do.
Our residents help us to plan the monthly lifestyle programme, making sure that everyone has something they like, enabling people to keep up with life long hobbies or pick up new ones. We have long term projects like our summer parties, car shows, BBQs, craft fairs, Christmas shows to mention a few and residents can be as involved as they would like in all stages of the planning or just come along and enjoy on the day.
We love going out on trips, to lunch, shopping or to socialise with other local groups, we also have many people who come into visit us with church services, music, talks and support for our bigger events.
We have a fantastic team of staff and every department is involved in making sure our residents get the most out of living here. We have a brilliant music therapist who works her magic 3 days a week, running group and individual sessions. Our Physiotherapy team keep everyone fit and active, working with us to make sure everyone has access to sports and team games.
We have a full programme groups, events and clubs but none of it would be possible without our residents and their families, we all work together to make this a home from home and to keep laughter and friendship at the heart of what we do.
Kirsty Taylor and Anna Gorshkova
Having recently joined Chalfont Lodge as part of the activities team, I have lots of experience working in the care sector.
Both Anna and I enjoy working with such a great team and nothing makes us happier than to bring joy and laughter to our residents' daily lives.
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 Chalfont Lodge Care Home
Beer Day
Chalfont Lodge had a "Beer-rilliant" day celebrating International Beer Day.
Residents raised a glass (or two) and tasted top ales in recognition of International Beer Day.
Everyone enjoyed a variety of different flavoured beers from all around the world, whilst learning about the craft brewing and the history of beer followed on by an afternoon of music from the wonderful Frank our newly welcomed singer.
Flower Arranging
Today our residents took part in flower arranging activities which was a great way to bring joy, colour and happiness into the home. We discussed our favourite flowers and there was a great collective of knowledge about flowers gained from years of gardening experience from our residents.
Jimmy Kent
We welcomed Jimmy Kent today who has made his first debut at Chalfont Lodge. It was a wonderful performance that got everyone's spirits up and toes tapping through singing a great variety of songs to appeal to everyone!
A great afternoon was had by all.
15 Years Long Service Award
Today at Chalfont Lodge we celebrated a great milestone for Jin Zhao's Long Service Award.
Jin, who is one of our talented chef's, has been working at Chalfont Lodge for 15 years this August and had many stories to share with us.
We thank you so much Jin for all of your hard work, and here's to the next 15 years!
Diversity Party
Today at Chalfont Lodge, we held a celebration of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion to help create a vibrant community in which each and every one of us is respected, valued and celebrated for our unique qualities.
Dil, head of housekeeping hosted the beautiful celebration, alongside staff members who each cooked diverse dishes and gave interesting talks about their home countries with Raj - Home Manager playing a medley of lovely songs on our Grand Piano.
Marius’s Music
Residents had a wonderful afternoon of music today at Marius's Music! Marius had everyone singing and dancing along to their favourite tunes bringing lots of energy. Great fun was had by all!
