Activities at Stamford Bridge Beaumont Care Home

There were many jumpers on display for Christmas Jumper day with the residents, staff team and visitors all joining in and helping to raise a significant amount of money for our chosen charity.

Everybody who wore a jumper put £1 into the collection jar, we also had several other donations so a big thank you to those people also. 

To select the charity we asked for suggestions over the preceding week and decided to put all the names into a jar and Mr Bryan Lawson, our resident ambassador drew out the winner which was Cancer Research.
 

Our residents have really enjoyed helping with the preparations for the Christmas Fayre, amongst the many things they have made are the “Hot Chocolate Reindeers” that will be for sale on the day.

It was so wonderful seeing the smiles on peoples faces as the reindeers began to take shape and the very real sense of pride that they were really helping with the preparations.

We are absolutely certain that the Reindeers will be an enormous success.

Despite storm Darragh being forecast for the day of our Christmas Fayre we hastily re-arranged our outside activities and made the decision to go ahead with the day as planned.

The tombola and raffle sold out in double quick time, both had an incredible amount of prizes available thanks to the generosity of both the local community and local businesses, the hot chocolate was also another huge success, as was the mulled wine, to be honest everything was absolutely amazing and made all the hard work worth it in the end.

A massive thank you to everybody who helped and attended the Fayre, far too many to name, without you it would not have been the enormous success that it was.
 

Excitement is running high at Stamford Bridge Beaumont where the talented residents have been named the winners of the annual Barchester Christmas Cake competition for the North East & Scotland Division. 

QEach year residents from Barchester’s care homes and hospitals up and down the country compete for the coveted Christmas Cake of the Year title. The competition is run by the central hospitality team and the bar is set very high. Many of Barchester’s residents are very skilled bakers and the Christmas cake designs can be very elaborate.  Competition is fierce and only the very best recipes and designs will prevail.
 

Across our homes we’ve had the most wonderful time celebrating the festive season with a special screening of 2020’s OLD VIC: IN CAMERA – A Christmas Carol.

This beautifully staged production brought the magic of Dickens’ classic tale right into our homes. A huge thank you to The Old Vic theatre for sharing this incredible performance with us. It was a truly wonderful experience. 

We had a fabulous morning visit to the local garden centre where our residents enjoyed looking at all of the Christmas decorations, they were all amazed with just how much you can buy now. 

This promoted really interesting conversations about how people used to make their own decorations year after year, we were also grateful of some ideas when we are making our own in our craft sessions.  We finished off the visit with a traditional round of hot chocolate and chocolate cake.