Activities at Raleigh Manor Care Home

The local Devon & Somerset Fire Rescue team dropped in on local Exmouth care home, Raleigh Manor today as part of their community engagement programme with the aim to support and educate communities to take steps to protect themselves.

The team will be back at Raleigh Manor on Thursday the 27th of October at 11am to educate staff, residents and visitors on how to stay safe.

The choir at local primary, Brixington Primary Academy took time out on Sunday morning to sing for the residents of local Exmouth care home, Raleigh Manor. It was a very special day for the residents and the perfect way to celebrate National Grandparents Day.  Over 20 children in the choir attended and sang a range of songs for the audience under the guidance of Head of School, Stuart Dyer. The children brought with them the entries for the Grandparents Day card colouring competition run by Raleigh Manor. 

Hospital Radio Exeter along with Raleigh Manor launched their resident’s dedication segment on Friday to the delight of residents who were over joyed to hear touching messages from their families coming to them over the radio.

The segment was enjoyed in Raleigh Manor’s resident lounge with more than one song request being the very first time volunteers, Julia and Richard had ever played.

On the 24th of September,  Raleigh Manor hosted an Antiques Valuation Day.

Local expert, Piers Motley from Piers Motley Auctions kindly provided estimates and advice to those who brought their antiques and collectables along. There was everything from very old gems, walking sticks and mechanical money boxes to record collections and ceramics.

“The most surprising items to come along were a truly astonishing collection of autographs” said Piers.

The event was a fund raiser for the Sarah Wright charity, championed by Exmouth Mayor, Steve Gazzard with his partner Diane and the town cryer, Roger in support.

During the past week while we mourned the loss of our Queen and paused our facebook messaging, comfort food featured heavily in our activities here at Raleigh Manor. We made our own pizza, have got the Christmas Cake in production and took time to join Exmouth Methodist Church at their coffee morning. What wonderful welcoming hosts they were. We look forward to going back

Beer Men's Shed, a well-known local group in Beer, that needed to build a new workshop to house their growing community was able to get their project completed after receiving a grant of £5,000 from Barchester’s Charitable Foundation.

The grant was offered in the name of local care home Raleigh Manor, run by Barchester Healthcare. Louise O’Sullivan, Home Services Advisor attended the event on behalf of Raleigh Manor.

“It was an absolute pleasure to attend the opening of this fabulous facility, run by people who want nothing more than to give back to their local community while providing a haven for men in search of companionship and purpose.” said Louise.

Also in attendance were the Mayor of Seaton, Amrik Singh and Gayle Chapple from the Parochial Church Council and Diocese of Exeter who offered the land for the workshop to be built on in church grounds.