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.
Alex Perkins & Louise Doyle
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!
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
15 Years of Service
We were very pleased and proud to celebrate Liz Sibley being a member of staff at Chalfont Lodge for 15 years. Chalfont Lodge and all the staff here would like to thank Liz for a her hard work and dedication over the years.
21st Birthday Celebrations
As part of our ongoing 21st birthday celebrations at Chalfont Lodge, we hosted a party with champagne, a BBQ lunch and two live music acts. We were joined by Swing 42 – a jazz trio – in the garden, and Smokey Joe, who plays rock and roll in the house.
We were very lucky and the weather held out, enabling us all to spend time celebrating the end of summer.
We would like to thank all the friends and family members who came along on the day and supported us, helping to make the day so special.
We are now 10-60-06 accredited!
Chalfont Lodge has achieved accreditation for a new standard of dementia care, which was developed by dementia care specialists at Barchester.
The 10-60-6 dementia programme will replace Barchester's current dementia care programme in order to ensure that the care services provided by our Memory Lane communities for people living with dementia are the best in the sector.
A huge well done to all of the staff, residents & families who have been involved in the journey to reach accreditation.
Urban Safari
A big thank you to Urban Safari for making our open day such a huge success. We had a brilliant day learning about your animals!
Sports Day
Congratulations to everyone who took part in The Chalfont Champions Sports Day. We are very proud of our physio team, who all worked so hard to create an inspiring day for residents.
Chalfont's Sounding Bowl
Chalfont Lodge is very proud to show off our wonderful sounding bowl that we raised money to buy. We would like to thank everyone who supported us at the Easter Craft Fair, bought raffle tickets, made things and helped to run stalls. We are especially grateful to those who chose to donate money and the families who made private donations.
This is a very special instrument that has a particular harmonic resonance and can work magic, connecting people with creativity. The sounding bowl is a little like a harp and has an incredible soothing effect. It can easily be strummed by all to create a beautiful sound and are used by the NHS for therapeutic purposes.
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.
