Activities at Edgbaston Beaumont Care Home
Our team pride ourselves in providing a wide range of activities and events to suit all of our residents needs. Comprising of art and craft classes, pet therapy, outside entertainers, visits from local schools where students attend and work alongside ourselves and the residents. We also have presentations on wildlife and other demonstrations, musicality and singalongs, quizzes, a poetry corner, knit and natter sessions, and one to one interaction, as well as trips out in the mini bus. For our residents who are less mobile we bring the shopping experience to the home for their convenience. We respect everyone's religious beliefs by providing visits from all denominations, such as Anglican, Catholic, working in conjunction with the local mosque and the Jewish community and providing religious interaction. We encourage our residents families to participate in all our activities, working alongside them to ensure we provide the best service possible here at Edgbaston Beaumont.
Celia Palmer
I’m Celia and I’m the Activity coordinator here at Edgbaston Beaumont. I previously worked as an activity coordinator in a hostel and am enjoying the shift into the residential setting. I have an arts background so enjoy painting and drawing in my spare time, which hopefully I can share my love for with the residents here. I also enjoy reading, travel, live music and looking after my cats! And copious amounts of tea.
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 Edgbaston Beaumont Care Home
Orchestra of the Swan perform
We were delighted to welcome to the home, @Orchestraoftheswan for an afternoon performance of classical music. They brought a variety of instruments to the home and residents enjoyed the sound. Orchestra of the Swan is a British professional chamber orchestra based closed to the home at Warwick Schools Foundation in Warwick.
Flower Power
Residents embrace flower power for an afternoon of flower arranging. The ladies chatted as they showed their artistic flair creating their arrangements which are now proudly displayed throughout the home – the home is now filled with the lovely aroma of fresh flowers.
Residents join Barchester's Big Quiz
Staff and residents from Barchester’s Edgbaston Beaumont care home joined fellow keen quizzers from over 250 Barchester care homes and hospitals across the whole of the UK, including Wales, Scotland, Jersey and the Isle of Wight, to put their collective general knowledge to the test.
The inaugural Barchester Big Quiz of the Year took place on 9th January 2024 when Edgbaston Beaumont got super competitive and took on its sister homes from all over the country to find out which Barchester home or hospital had the best quizzers. From historical humdingers and musical musings to pictorial puzzlers and connective conundrums, the homes battled it out to find out who would prevail.
Christmas Day
Here at Edgbaston Beaumont we had a fantastic Christmas Day, which involved themed movies, singing and dancing, family visits followed by a beautiful festive lunch with turkey, roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, puddings and cakes.
In the morning we welcomed Father Christmas and his elves from the North Pole, who brought gifts to all our residents - everyone was busy opening their presents and enjoying a glass of bubbly before the festive feast, prepared by our talented chef and kitchen team.
After lunch, we tuned in to watch and listen to the King's speech. Our day was filled with joy, smiles, music and laughter.
Pottery Masteclass
Residents had a great time transforming clay into art, one stroke at a time at our pottery class as we came together to paint Christmas Elves with Sue from Pottery Party.
Residents enjoy these popular interactive sessions and love the different themes she creates with us. We are looking forward to her next visit.
City Year UK Volunteers
We welcomed volunteers from City Year UK - Young people are given a year volunteering to tackle educational in equality in schools, they coach and inspire pupils to succeed and gain outstanding qualifications.
Part of their agenda was to look at tackling loneliness within the elderly community and they wanted to spend a day in a care setting seeing how day to day life looks and to enrich their lives.
Whilst visiting the home the volunteers participated in a variety of Christmas activities throughout the day.
