Activities at The Cedars Bourne Care Home

Today we went on an exciting trip to explore our local country park at Ferry Meadows in Peterborough.

Our residents had a fabulous time travelling on the home’s minibus to visit the park. They’ve enjoyed a day full of tranquillity and walks, including by a scrumptious picnic made by home chef Richard Parrott; as well as ice creams from the cafe.

We were able to explore the local wildlife, which everyone found fascinating.

A lovely day was had by all.

The Cedars Care Home in Bourne was thrilled to receive a visit from therapy horse Darwin and his owner Brenda from Comfort Horse Therapy on Monday. The miniature horse, just 34 inches tall, is a falabella who visited a group in the lounge before travelling the home to visit residents in their rooms. He even went up in the lift!

Residents were able to talk to, stroke and groom the horse, who was on his best behaviour throughout the 90 minute visit. He even wore beautiful shoes to keep the floor clean.

Cedars Borne and the Chater Lodge Care Homes came together and joined the local community at the Stamford Health & Wellbeing event, held at the Stamford Day Centre. 

The event brought together local businesses and health care professionals including Under My Wing, Citizens Advice, Dementia Support Lincolnshire and others to highlight and promote the importance of health and wellbeing in the community and to highlight support for those in need. 

One participant said “it is wonderful to see the variety of different organisations come together in unison, showing their support for those who living with mental health, it’s heart-warming to know there is so much support in the community.”

What a SPLASH!!!!   What a welcome we received from Kirsty and her team at the One Stop Hawaiian Fun Day. We played the tombola and had a great time with the water bombs in "splash the manager"... what a good sport she was! It was good to be such a part of the community in helping raise funds for Alzheimers, something dear to our hearts here at Barchester. And when Anne met a fellow colleague from our sister home Woodgrange, who had cared for Anne’s sister, it was another special moment. Thank you.

Residents really enjoyed their visit from Paint a Pot Place this month. Derek and his granddaughter were lovely, and helped our residents paint some beautiful treasures that they can keep forever. The residents enjoyed themselves so much that we have already booked the next session- designing and making clay decorations for Christmas.

Thank you to Derek and the wonderful team at Paint a Pot Place for being such good company and we are really looking forward to seeing the finished products! 

Our Indian Day was a great success. Our wonderful chef, Richard, created an exquisite Indian menu for us all to sample, with samosa's, mint raita, and a marsala curry with rice. Our colleague, Sam, kindly brought in the most beautiful golden sari, so we could learn how to pleat and wear it. We even danced, "Bollywood" style, learning how to create all the beautifully expressive hand movements via our Online Partner Oomph on Demand. We then played "Gutte", an Indian version of 5 stones. We all agreed how wonderful it was to experience a different culture and learn so much about another country.