Activities at Strachan House Care Home

The fun and laughter has continued at Strachan House care home, in Edinburgh as residents recently enjoyed trying out our outdoor exercise sessions,

Residents at Strachan House care home have enjoyed our engaging activities programmes consisting of chair exercises arranged by the homes’ activities team for residents within the home.

The activities coordinator Lynne Hiddleston supports the personal interests of residents so they can continue with their individual hobbies in an effort to celebrate life as often as we can. All group and individual activities offer a choice of mental, physical and spiritual activities of people we care for.

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Strachan house care home in Edinburgh were buzzing when they celebrated World Bee Day on May 20th.

Created by the UN, World Bee Day is an annual global event raising awareness of the importance of bees and beekeeping for the survival of our ecosystems.  Three out of four food crops across the globe rely on bees and other pollinators but those pollinators are under threat from human activities.

Residents had a bee-rilliant time having a talk from Lauriston castle resident bee keeper john Jeffrey. We learnt about the history of bee-keeping and the importance of bees for food production,  we had a zoom meeting  with john our  local bee keeper virtually and enjoying a tour of his hives, we also held a tasting session of his local honey he makes at Lauriston castle as well as having a bee -biscuit with our cup of tea, making a bee home for the garden and planting some bee friendly flowers in the garden.

A carer at Strachan House in Edinburgh has received a prestigious 15 Year Service Award in celebration of working at Barchester Healthcare for 15 years.

Lyra Quintanilla, now carer, started at Barchester in May 2006 and has worked with residents and their relatives to ensure that their needs have been met over the years.

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Strachan House care home in were treated to an interactive virtual floristry masterclass courtesy of Master Florist, Michal Kowalski, from Blooming Haus. 

Blooming Haus started with a small pop-up shop in Chelsea.  They have since blossomed spectacularly on to the floristry scene as ‘floral engineers’, carving themselves an outstanding reputation as one of the UK’s most innovative floral design studios.

Here at Strachan House we were pleased to be able to dive into the wild safari life of Knowsley Safari and to enjoy an amazing live stream tour of the park’s grounds.

Our residents were smiling and laughing as they got up close and personal with some of the safari’s most popular animals, including giraffes and meerkats.

We had a wonderful time learning more about the animals and enjoying some live feeding demonstrations. 

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Strachan House care home in Edinburgh were treated to an armchair work out courtesy of the Green Goddess, Diana Moran, and Shackleton’s furniture company, followed by a mindfulness session led by Shackleton’s Emma Raybould.

Diana rose to fame as a glamorous fitness guru on BBC’s Breakfast Time in the 1980’s and has made an outstanding contribution to improving the health and wellbeing of people in the UK. She now brings that experience to Shackletons as their Health and Wellness Adviser.