Activities at Hurstwood View Care Home

We're so happy to announce that Lisa Radcliffe has been crowned Activities Coordinator of the Year for the South Division in the Barchester Care Awards 2023 and is through to the national round of judging.

The Barchester Care Awards celebrate the staff who go the extra mile for the benefit of the 13,000 residents living in Barchester’s 252 care homes and private hospitals across the country. Categories range from ‘Registered Nurse of the Year’ and ‘Carer of the Year’ to ‘Dementia Care Champion’ and ‘Activities Coordinator of the Year’.

Anyone that has been into the home recently, will see our ducks have hatched! It’s been a long 28 days waiting for them to hatch in our incubator, but they are now here, and could not be cuter. It’s amazing how many smiles they are bringing to our residents, families, and of course staff. We have lined up a forever home for them, so will shortly be off to live life on a pond, with one of our local farmers.

Did you know it’s #InternationalPicnicDay on Sunday the 18th June?

We thought seeing as the weather has been so warm, we’d get in on the action too.

We spent a beautiful afternoon in the garden enjoying a selection of wonderful picnic food, freshly made by our Head Chef, Karen Downie.

Of course, there was some delicious refreshing Pimms too, no picnic would be complete without it!

We’ve just had a visit from an amazing 90 year old local lady, who has kindly knitted and crocheted us 30 beautiful lap blankets!

We are so grateful that we have such a wonderful community here at Hurstwood View, and send a huge heartfelt thank you.

We’ve spent the afternoon delivering blankets, and our residents absolutely loved choosing their favourite. This lovely lady is already working on our next delivery, we can’t wait to see them.

We had a great evening at our sister home Lydfords Care Home - Barchester Healthcare, as we welcomed Tour de Barchester to #easthoathly.

Now in its second year #tourdebarchester took place from the 6-9th June. This 4 day challenge saw the team cycle 276 miles along the south coast, visiting 15 of our care homes on the way! Raising money for Barchester’s Charitable Foundation, there couldn’t be a better cause.

It was a lovely sunny evening with bbq, live music, and a great party atmosphere. Thanks Lydfords for your wonderful hospitality, our residents had a great time.

Earlier in the day we also got into the spirit by hosting our own cycling challenge here in the Cafe. We didn’t quite make 276 miles, but everyone in the team was keen to have a go!

To learn more about Tour de Barchester, and to donate to this worthwhile cause, please visit our website: https://www.bhcfoundation.org.uk/tour-de-barchester-2023

Since launching our Meaningful Moments initiative, we have created some truly wonderful experiences for our residents, their families and friends. We have taken residents home to see their horses, made delicious afternoon teas to share with loved ones, been out to the shops, enjoyed tea and cake in cafes, drinks at the pub, arranged a garden party for a resident to see all of her grandchildren at once, taken numerous trips to the seaside, attended an Elvis tribute evening, spent some time 1:1 gardening, enjoyed special food, numerous trips through the McDonalds drive through, and so much more!

This week, we spent some time 1:1 with a lady in her room, who loves flower arranging. She chose some flowers from our selection, and arranged them beautifully in a vase. Time was then spent giving her a manicure and hand massage.

If we haven’t been in touch already about your loved one, please do contact us with any ideas you may have, we’d love to do something special for them.