Activities at Winchester House Care Home

Friday here at Winchester House means our fantastic head chef Matt has made his signature 'brownie cookies' for all residents and staff.

Matt is very protective about the recipe for these fabulous cookies and will tell no one of the secret ingredient.

However residents and staff don't worry to much. we are happy to just eat them

Keep them coming Matt

Residents here at Winchester House, enjoy staying  fit and healthy.  Winchester House provide's many types of  fitness sessions throughout the week, including walking around our beautiful gardens on a daily basis.

These sessions are important to our Residents as it improves Mental Wellbeing, self Esteem, and also gives them energy, so they can join in with all the Activities and fun for the rest of the day.

Rob T is one of our regular performers that came in to sing to our lovely Residents here at Winchester House. He sings a wide range of music, from the 60's 70's and 80's.

Our Resident's look forward to seeing Rob T, many get up and have a boogie with friends, staff and relatives.

In recognition of National Customer Service Week, team members and support staff are taking part in Barchester’s ‘Back to the Floor’ initiative.

‘Back to the Floor' gives the opportunity to support teams and residents by being present and available to help and support with simple day to day tasks and recognise the great work happening every day.

Everyone working in Barchester should be able to spend time with residents, working alongside some of our team members to experience a day in the life of a working care home.

Today we were delighted to welcome Michelle Macadangdang, Winchester House's very own Regional Director, who joined staff and helped serve lunch on our Short's Terrace unit.

Michelle chatted with our residents whilst she served lunch.

After lunch Michelle said she had thoroughly enjoyed herself.

Peter Grant at Winchester House in Rochester has beaten all the competition to be crowned National Maintenance Champion in the Barchester Care Awards 2022.

The Barchester Care Awards celebrate the staff who go the extra mile for the benefit of the 12,600 residents living in Barchester’s 250 care homes and private hospitals across the country. Categories range from ‘Team of the Year’ and ‘Carer of the Year’ to ‘Dementia Care Champion’ and ‘Activities Coordinator of the Year’.

More than 2,960 nominations were received from homes and hospitals across the UK. All entries were a very high standard and Peter Grant is over the moon to have been named the national winner, beating hundreds of other nominees to the coveted title.

Peter Grant said: I was both made up and surprised to be voted divisional winner and to get to attend the award ceremony , to  be crowned National Maintenance Champion is the highlight of my career at Barchester so far, especially as I never expected this for what I consider is  just doing my job. I would like to thank all those who nominated me for the award and the judges who decided that it was me to be awarded the top spot this year.

Earlier this month here at Winchester House we had our Charity Quiz evening.

It was a huge success. Residents and staff  would like to thank our Friends, Families and community  for coming to support us and our Charity.

A massive shout out to the lovely Hannah for coming to entertain us with her selection of music  throughout the evening.

Congratulations to Wendy Charlesworth and Team for Winning.  Second place went to Amber Aspinall and her team. Well done to everyone who took part.