Activities at Oxford Beaumont Care Community
Our Activities Coordinators are committed to organising a mix of activities and events that cater to all tastes, which includes minibus outings to nearby places of interest and visits from animal trusts, local school choirs, musicians and entertainers. We also undertake one-to-one activities for residents who are unable to participate in group sessions, and encourage loved ones to join in whenever they can.
Alice and Sarah
Hi, I'm Alice (left) and I've been working in activities since 2019. I absolutely love my role, and I'm passionate about providing meaningful and life enriching activities for all our residents. My aim is to make them smile everyday!
Hi I’m Sarah (right), I’ve been a member if the Oxford Beaumont team since January 2020. Starting as an Activities assistant on a part time basis, I enjoyed the role so much I'm now one the the full time coordinators.
It’s an absolute pleasure working here, being able to provide life enriching activities that make our residents happy and smile. We have so much fun together, and learn something new everyday from these incredible ladies and gentlemen.
Making links with local groups and organisations to ensure our residents remain part of the local community is a key part of the activities team role, if you would like to make contact with me or my colleague Sarah, please feel free to call us on 01865 730990 or drop us an email OxfordBeaumont.Activities@barchester.com
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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 Oxford Beaumont Care Community
First stages of the Garden Project
Here at the Oxford Beaumont we have some big plans pending for our beautiful gardens!
Our gardening team having been working incredibly hard planning new plots for the grounds and putting the plans into reality!
Many of the residents were very keen to support the project so we decided to start a gardening club. Our first session involved planting Sweet Pea seeds – we can’t wait to see how they grow and eventually be planted out in the garden!
Next Stop Please!
Residents enjoyed a trip to the Oxford Bus and Morris Motors Museum. The morning was spent walking around the museum, looking at the fantastic bus and car collection which consisted of an array of transport from the last 130 years. The trip prompted conversations and memories among the residents about travelling round town and to school, one resident said ‘it was great to see the vintage vehicles and photos of the different ways we used to travel in Oxfordshire.’
Rock Painting
Rock art goes back thousands of years and as it’s one of the most ancient forms of artistic expression we thought we would give it a go!
We had lots of fun experimenting with different coloured paints, textures and patterns. It was a great afternoon bringing residents and friends together for a fun and therapeutic art session!
Movies Day!
A day at the movies consisted of film trivia, fancy dress, snacks and live music from Richard Stark. Richard entertained residents and loves ones with a wide range of songs from all their favourite films! The selection of songs varied from The Jungle Book, James Bond, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and much much more! It was great to see so many singing along and tapping their feet to the familiar tunes… we can’t wait for the next performance from Richard!
Celebrations and Joy!
Residents enjoyed a day of two celebrations! One was Diwali and the other was our wonderful deputy manager sreeja who got married in India, to celebrate the wonderful occasions we hosted a party with delicious tasty food inspired by India cuisines and refreshments to all the residents, families and staff in the activity room.
Afterwards the manager did a presentation speech to the newlywed with a lovely hamper full of gifts from the home, all the residents said they thoroughly enjoyed celebrating this special time with all of us and the food was amazing and the outfits wore by some of the staff looked so elegant and very smart.
Honouring Remembrance Sunday
On remembrance Sunday residents wrote some wonderful poems to recollection and reminiscence the fallen soldiers of WW1 and WW2 and discuss what the day means to us all in honouring them
One resident called Annette told us she helped out in the navy in her younger days as a wren and carried cargo to the massive navy ship by paddling a little boat of the shores and how exciting it felt to know she was helping out her duties. It’s wonderful to listen to pastime memories the residents share with the staff.
