Activities at Stamford Bridge Beaumont Care Home

Our residents were thrilled to join Antonia Keaney - Blenheim Palace’s Historian for an intriguing virtual talk on Winston Churchill.

The private resources of Blenheim Palace were drawn upon to afford very new and refreshing insights into this remarkable man. During the talk Antonia shared fascinating information about the breadth of talent, achievement and personality of the "Greatest Briton": soldier, politician, statesman, painter, writer, orator, family man - and bricklayer!

We all had a wonderful time and enjoyed learning more about UK’s former Prime Minister.

Musical moments visit the home regularly and Residents enjoy their regular musical sessions and Maggie, a resident is always full of energy and encourages her friends to get involved with the props available.  Residents are soon singing and dancing along to the music.

We have been very busy getting the home set for autumn with some wonderful crafts and we recently added these beautiful autumn flowers to the communal areas, residents also created their own displays to put in their rooms. Flower arranging is a popular activity within the homes life enrichment programme.

We were delighted to join Blooming Haus’s Christmas Wreath Making Masterclass, where Master Florist, Michal and his business partner - Michael showed us the best method to create beautiful festive wreaths.

Following the tips and ideas learnt during the amazing virtual experience, we were happy to put our skills to a test and to enter the #BarchesterChristmasWreaths competition.

We all had a wonderful time creating our festive wreath/s.

Thank you @bloominghaus for helping our residents flow into the true spirit of Noel.

Stamford Bridge Beaumont in Stamford Bridge commemorated Remembrance Day on Sunday 14th November, where they joined the rest of the United Kingdom in holding a two-minute silence at 11am.

As well as marking Remembrance Day by wearing knitted poppies made by our residents, and watching the televised service, residents were involved in making a cenotaph to display within the home to commemorate the members of the armed forces who died in the line of duty.

A resident at Stamford Bridge Beaumont said: It is very important that we keep the memories of those who fought alive and that we also think about those involved in conflicts around the world today, this was reflected in the service we received from the local Church on Thursday 11th of November.

We celebrated Remembrance Day with English National Ballet Associate Dance Artist, Richard Bermange, who led a creative dance workshop for our residents followed by a special extract of Akram Khan’s work Dust, premiered in 2014 as part of ENB’s Lest We Forget programme, commemorating the First World War.

ENB company dancers, Erina Takahashi and James Streeter performed the extract and provided some insight into this moving work.

Our residents had a wonderful time as they listened, danced and were able to singalong to famous war time music performed by ENB Associate Musician, Matt Hartley-Stevens.