Activities at Southgate Beaumont Care Community

Thank you to Walker Primary school for a lovely afternoon making Christmas wreaths.

All proceeds from the wreaths that are sold will go towards projects for the school, so it was a very worthy cause.

It was wonderful to get into the festive spirit with members of our community and our residents did such a wonderful job.

What a wonderful time we had at our first Christmas Market. There was an array of wonderful goodies for people to peruse. Residents were joined by their loved ones and our friends from the local community and shopped all the lovely artisan and home made crafts that were ideal for Christmas gifts and of course a treat for them selves. We hosted a raffle, which the stall holders kindly contributed towards and a tombola and raised over £250. The money raised will be go towards Samantha's Shelter fund raising and an activities project at Southgate Beaumont.

Dan, our Head Chef, made delicious mulled wine and home baked mince pies that filled the home with the smell of Christmas and were absolutely yummy.

Thank you to all of the fabulous stall holders that joined us, every one who visited the Christmas market and of course our amazing team including Mark our volunteer for making it such an amazing event and raising money for such a worthy cause.

Christmas Jumper Day at Southgate Beaumont. Staff and residents went to great effort to celebrate this years Christmas Jumper Day.

Wearing our jumpers brought a lot of smiles to everyone’s faces and it was lovely that so many of our residents wanted to take part.

Eventually our prize was awarded to Emire from our maintenance department.

Everyone loved his Rudolf jumper!

Congratulations Emire.

We love to have a party at Southgate Beaumont and a birthday celebration is always a great one. A time to get together, eat home baked birthday cake and a glass of fizz!

Wishing a very Happy birthday to our lovely resident Beryl.

We all enjoyed celebrating and Beryl was delighted that everyone could come along to join in the fun together.

Dancing was the order of the day at Southgate Beaumont care home, where residents were keen to get involved with the Iberian folk dances. Staff and residents were immersed into wonderful costumes, music and group dancing. Everyone was involved and had such a happy afternoon.

The Iberian folk dance company was founded by an English lady Lucille Armstrong back in 1970. Lucille was so passionate about Spain and Portugal and all that it offered. Whilst teaching English there, she took in all the beauty of the language, costumes and dancing and in 1985 the group became a proper society.

With Lucille playing the traditional music on piano and designing all the costumes, the group went from strength to strength. There are currently 22 members and 13 Nationalities within this group. The oldest member is 90 and the youngest is 29. Elsa who is 88 and from South Africa is now the main organiser and told us how in rehearsals they often leave the door open. People hear them from the street and come in to watch. They often find new members that way too! They continue with public appearances spreading energy and joy as they go.

Here at Barchester Healthcare we believe it is never too late to start something new. We have a celebrating life project where we support our residents to do something they have always wanted to do or lean. We have a number of residents that wanted to try their hand at dancing, so having this company was a wonderful experience for everyone.

At Southgate Beaumont, we’re committed to enriching the lives of our residents, and we believe it’s never too late for them to learn or experience something new.

John has been a resident at Southgate Beaumont since the summer 2023 and his devoted partner Jerry visits him everyday.

John and Jerry have been together for 44 years and in a civil partnership for 7. They have become a much loved part of our Beaumont family, who bring a great amount of fun and laughter to our home. John is well known for his colourful flamboyant shirts and takes every opportunity to wear them.

John loves the finer things in life and Jerry really wanted to create a magical experience for John and said how much they would love to go out in a beautiful car together.

The team at Southgate Beaumont got together to make this happen and Garry Hall very kindly agreed to take John and Jerry for an afternoon drive in his stunning, classic Rolls Royce 20 25 Sedanca De Ville.

The team clapped as the two made their way to the beautiful Rolls Royce, they sipped champagne before Gary took them on a drive around the places that were special to them, including where they had first met.