Activities at North Park Care Home

Our amazing staff laid on a food festival ‘ A Taste of Asia’ providing authentic dishes from their countries for residents, colleagues, families and the wider community to sample and enjoy.   The event was a great success with visitors commenting on how delicious the dishes were with one of our residents stating” this food tastes amazing, when are you all doing it again?”

We were honoured to be able to present a cheque to Veterans Woodcraft for £15000 on behalf of Barchester’s Charitable Foundation as part of the Jeanette Gill Special Awards.  Veterans Woodcraft is a charity set up by veterans in 2017 to help ex-service personnel battling against suicide,  PTSD, mental health issues and physical disabilities caused by their military service.

The cheque was presented to Jeremy Williamson the charities Business Development Director and Phil Bramhall their Operations Manager by veteran resident Neil Baird and Senior General Manager Lisa Frame. Before enjoying refreshments and chatting to our residents about their work and life here at North Park.

Residents at North Park always enjoy a social gathering where fun and laughter is the order of the day/night. Our Barchie Bear  Cocktail Evening was great fun for all who attended, in fact so much fun we have had to schedule another one very soon.  

North Park Care Centre were delighted when Tony gifted 5 Precious Petzzz for our Memory Lane residents to enjoy.  At North Park we are fully aware of the benefits these animals bring to our residents such as comfort, companionship and joy.

Residents have named the dogs which are already being cuddled, groomed and played with by not only residents but staff too.  Thank you Tony for your generosity and continued support

We had a lovely time joining Henry Slator for an exciting virtual event to discuss his book ‘Conversations at the Pond’.

Henry had an unusual writing journey, which many of our residents found inspiring, he underwent chemotherapy in early 2020, which allowed him to rediscover his light-hearted outlook on life by imagining conversations with creatures in and around his large garden pond and adding buckets of fun.

The entertaining Conversations at the Pond, with its mass of colourful illustrations, took our residents along his journey, they felt inspired, cheered and loved hearing all about Henry’s experiences.

Our Memory Lane Community always enjoy cuddling and stroking our interactive Fur real cats. Fur real pet therapies have been shown to provide comfort and reduce levels of pain, improve movement and motor skills, aid in maintaining social or behavioural skills and increase motivation toward activities such as exercise or interacting with others.