Activities at Oxford Beaumont Care Community

Staying fit and active is very important to the residents at Oxford Beaumont. The activity staff run regular exercise sessions to help the residents to stay fit and mobile. Currently Barchester are working with the specialist activity provider Oomph, who have been providing training and initiatives to help activity staff to facilitate engaging and appropriate fitness sessions aimed especially at the elderly.

The residents at Oxford Beaumont love the sessions and always have some fun in the process.

Here at Oxford Beaumont we always like to make the residents feel special, but even more so on their birthdays, this week resident Annette celebrated her special day with family, residents and staff. She received lots of presents and flowers and top it off our Head Chef made a delicious birthday cake. Annette had a lovely day.

What a lovely surprise for all the staff and residents when we had a visit from this famous family. Kevin came to see how our Christmas preparations were coming along and introduce his family Katie, Jasper, Chantenay and baby who were more than happy to be involved in activities and spend quality time with residents and staff in our beautiful home.

They have decided they love Oxford Beaumont so much they are going to stay for a while so you can look forward to seeing all of their adventures.

A serene and tranquil atmosphere was felt at the Oxford Beaumont while the beautiful sound of two harps playing filled the Windrush Lounge at our December Coffee Morning.

Margaret Scruby and Rosemary Munro twin sisters who live locally performed for our residents, families and friends providing an hours entertainment.

Both sisters share their love of the Paraguayan harp and have played around Oxfordshire delighting people of all ages with their talent.

We always look forward to Margaret and Rosemary visiting, especially as this time of the year. Their music is enchanting and they are an aspiration to anyone who meets them.

We were very pleased to invite Lorraine Chapman, a local flautist to perform for us a collection of poetic, mellow and thoroughly enjoyable pieces of music to entertain our residents and the local community.

Lorraine is a familiar face to our home and a delight in so many ways. The hours entertainment including songs from around the world such as a well- known  song, ‘The Skye Boat Song’. This song was especially important to one of our Scottish residents who said it brought back great memories of her original region.

Lorraine then continued with familiar sing-a-long tunes such as ‘’When I’m sixty –four’’! Everyone joined in and a few joined the floor to dance.

We look forward to seeing Lorraine next year for another great performance.

On  the 1st of November we invited two local miniature model enthusiasts to our monthly coffee morning to show their various prides of joy to the community.

The display included among many, replica pieces of the famous St Giles Fairground with carousel, big wheel and war of death. There was a scaled down version of a carousel horse restored,  miniature steam engines and vintage pieces of transport.

Martin and David who are passionate about their past time explained to our lovely residents and the community about the history of their collection.

Everyone was astounded by the detail of each memorabilia and loved the fair ground music that accompanied the event.

One resident commented ‘’I  would love to just sit and watch the display all day’’

Another said ‘’It  brought back great memories of times past ‘’, I have really enjoyed the experience and hope we will be able to see the display again.