Activities at Prestbury Beaumont Care Community
Our home is always full of life, and we can thank our wonderful Activities Coordinators for this. Dedication to creating a unique and interesting activities programme is what sets us apart from other homes. We always take into consideration that some people would prefer to pursue their own interests, which is why our team strive to incorporative activities that cater to a wide range of tastes and hobbies. Our trips out are always fun and exciting as well, and residents are guaranteed to return with stories to tell their loved ones!
Ellie Rattue
My name is Ellie and I am Head of Activities here at Prestbury Beaumont. I completed my studies in Sociology at the University of Sheffield last year and recently joined this wonderful team at the beginning of 2024. As part of my role, I am responsible for planning enjoyable and engaging activities that foster a happy and joyful environment for the residents. I dedicate myself to ensure that the residents feel fulfilled and enthusiastic about participating in the wide array of diverse and person-centred activities I organise for them. I am deeply passionate about my role as I derive great joy from assisting others and strive to uphold Barchester’s high standards.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Prestbury Beaumont Care Community
Home continue to support at local foodbank
’Prestbury Beaumont care Community in Prestbury recently presented its local food bank, the Pantry, situated in Macclesfield with a donation of much needed supplies for the third month. The home recently teamed up with the local Co-Op store, which has provided a collection trolley in their store for donations to the food bank.
The care home has been donating home-baked goods such as pretzels, chocolate cake and biscuits to the food bank every week since November 2020, something the residents have felt brings more meaning to baking in the home and have enjoyed being able to help those who need it, even from a distance’’
Home mark start of Lent
The staff and residents at Prestbury Beaumont care community in Prestbury, have been mixing, shaping and baking traditional Lenten Pretzels for to mark Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent.
Prestbury Beaumont has marked this year’s Ash Wednesday with tasty pretzels which have then been kindly donated to the homes local food bank, The Pantry in Macclesfield, which is run by St Peter’s Church in Prestbury. Activities Co-Ordinator, Olivia Falkner, who came up with the recipe thought the Lenten Pretzel was a lovely way to mark to start of Lent and was a fun way to learn more about it!
Olivia said: “Pancake day is the usual way to mark the start of Lent, which we did celebrate, but I thought this recipe was something different and in fact none of our residents had heard of the Lenten Pretzel before, let alone made or eaten one!’’
Love is in the air for Valentines
Prestbury Beaumont Care Community, in Prestbury, was filled with decorations, cards and sweets in celebration of St Valentine’s Day.
Staff and residents celebrated the day of love with a week of making decorations to fill the home with, chocolate presents, brownie baking and card making.
General Manager, Cath Richie, said: “Today has shown us all that you are never too old for love. We’ve had a whole range of treats and Valentine’s themed fun for the individuals that live here and their guests and we have enjoyed every moment of it!”
Painting by numbers
Creative crafts is a popular activity with our residents as they show case their flair for colour and design, in this week’s session we enjoyed ‘paint by numbers’ to complete a beautiful picture of a chaffinch in blossom with each resident assigned to a part of the canvas, it took a while but the result is amazing. During the socially distanced group activity we explored facts about this birds including its plumage and how it is one of the most common bird species in the UK.
National Story Telling Week
This week marks the start of National Storytelling week so our residents have teamed up with the local Nursery, Bright Horizons Families UK to share stories of their life with the younger generation.
Today we have started to create this book which we will gift to the nursery once we have got stories from all our residents. We can’t wait for the children to read and enjoy our stories and hope they enjoy them as much as we enjoyed experiencing them!
Residents benefit from therapy dolls
Residents enjoy doll therapy at Prestbury Beaumont and have been spending some quality time with their therapy dolls who resemble newborn babies. Cath Ritchie, General Manager said: “The dolls are greatly loves by all of the residents and give a nice sense of belonging and peacefulness in the home and it is great so see our residents interacting with them”
