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
Age Concern
Here at Chalfont Lodge we have been celebrating Age Concern GX Plus first birthday! The local shop invited a range of community members and professionals to celebrate the success of the first year supporting the Chalfont & Gerrards Cross community. It was a great chance to meet Chalfont St Peter Chamber of Commerce & the Chalfont Common WI!
Sports Day
To celebrate the start of the Olympics Chalfont Lodge hosted our annual sports day! The day was organised by our wonderful Physiotherapist Mansukh Chander and Pedro Bras who had a day of fun planned for everyone. We laced up our trainers and warmed-up for a day of excitement and enjoyed a variety of wellbeing and training activities, along with live music from one of our entertainers, Frank. We all got involved in specially selected games, exercises and races during the day. In the afternoon, we were treated to a buffet of hotdogs, burgers and homemade sweet and savoury delicacies.
Cook Off
Staff and residents at Chalfont Lodge care home are celebrating because their wonderful Managing Director, Natasha Lazovic, from Barchester’s South Division, has stepped completely out of her comfort zone to compete in the Barchester Charitable Foundation Cook Off 2024.
Natasha went head to head with the Managing Directors from Barchester’s four other divisions and cooked up a storm to raise a phenomenal £24,595 for Barchester’s Charitable Foundation which helps connect vulnerable people and those living with a disability to community groups in their local area by providing grants to improve mobility and quality of life.
Professional Breakfast
Its that time again where Chalfont Lodge have been busy hosting our professional breakfast event! This is a fantastic opportunity to meet local professionals, network, exchange business cards and enjoy a freshly prepared breakfast from our Head Chef, Zibi. Thank you to all those involved and the professionals that attended - including The Mayor Chesham, Bucks Adult Social Team, Radfield Home Care and many more. Follow our page for details of our next event!
Performing Pets
Our residents were delighted to welcome back the beautiful budgies from Performing Pets. We were lucky enough to have 7 come to see us, with their beautiful colour feathers and lots of chirpy chat! They were a great hit with residents, inspiring many memories and conversations of owning budgies as pets when they were young children. The experience brought happiness and smiles, and was truly enjoyed by all.
Growing Herbs
Here at Chalfont Lodge we have a dedicated resident garden committee team who meet regularly to discuss feedback and new planting required. Our recent topic of discussion has been to add a range of herbs to our gardens for our chefs to include as ingredients! Our garden committee took a trip on our minibus and selected a wide range of herbs to be planted, our chef Vincent was really excited.
