Activities at Chalfont Lodge Care Home

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.

Enriching life
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Alex Perkins & Louise Doyle

Activities Team

Hello, I’m Alex the Activities Lead at Chalfont Lodge, working with me is Louise Doyle. I've worked at Chalfont Lodge for 8 years now. I originally started off as a volunteer and fell in love with the residents, families and staff. Since then, I've been an Activity assist, Activity Coordinator and now the head of the department! Activities are my passion and I love creating an environment where all of the residents can thrive and do what they love!

Life-encriching activities booklet

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 Chalfont Lodge Care Home

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Steeped in History

Our very knowledgeable Activity Assistant, Rachel enthralled our Residents with her 2nd Talk on the history of Chalfont Lodge! 

The picturesque Chalfont Lodge has been many things over the decades,  including a hotel in 1921 and a girls school in 1930, however the original lodge was eventually  demolished to make way for our fantastic care home.

 Our grounds are steeped in history and are truely beautiful

This year we celebrate our 25th Anniversary of The Chalfont Lodge Care Centre. 

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Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pudding Competition

  Excitement is running high at Chalfont Lodge as we have been cooking up a storm to enter the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pudding Competition. The competition is being run by Fortnum & Mason to create a pudding that the whole nation can bake for themselves and that will be served not only at Jubilee parties up and down the country, but to the Queen herself to celebrate her 70 years on the throne. We put our heads together and donned our aprons to come up with a scrumptious pudding that we think encapsulates the Queen’s reign. Our fabulous pudding is called ‘Long May She Reign’ and we are very happy how it turned out. Our Trio of pies consists of an Apple & Elderflower pie decorated with pastry hearts, plaits & twists surrounded by strawberries & roses, a Black Cherry pie decorated with a pastry Crown & glacier cherries and lastly a Strawberries & Cream pie, topped with a lattice & covered in pastry roses! Many residents came together and came up with 100’s of ideas, which we then narrowed down to our top 3 pies!
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Chalfont Celebrates the amazing Robbie Burns

On Jabuary 25th  Residents celthe residets here at Chalfont Lodge traditionally celebrate  Robbie Burns with a delicious celebratory lunch.  This year our Head Chef and his team prepared Haggis, Neets and Tatties!

After lunch  we read some of Robbie Burns amazing  poems and of course also enjoyed a small toast. 

Blooming Beautiful

Today we celebrated International Flower Day here at Chalfont Lodge Care Centre. Rachel Hobbs, a brilliant member of our Activities team has such an eye for colour and beauty. The floristry group, firstly  arranged the flowers into colour bunches and then started their arrangements. The smell of freshly cut flowers filled the air whilst Louise Hamer our fantastic music therapist played the piano to some of our residents others joined Rachel to arrange and create.  A lovely morning was had by all.

Every little helps.

Yesterday Chalfont Lodge took some much needed toiletries to Gold Hill Baptist Church in the village,  adding to the food bank collection for Chiltern Foodbank  Joyce, our fabulous knowledgeable contact at Gold Hill Baptist Church told us how important it is to donate household goods as well as food to the banks to be distributed out to our community. Chalfont Lodge's donations will be ongoing.  Every little helps

Louises Musical Instruments

These musical instruments are found in our Music Therapist, Louise Hamer’s , beautiful office here at Chalfont Lodge. In this photo there are Djembe and Conga Drums; the colourful one is an Ocean Drum.  There are tambourines and bongo drums, there is also a sounding drum, a ukulele, some little Combi bells,  a cymbal, piano and a small cow bell. Music therapy is explained as a person-centered  therapy that uses music as its main source of communication. Music therapy is very popular here at Chalfont Lodge

Upcoming events

Countdown to Christmas

Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.

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