New Colleagues at Belmont House Care Home in Bodmin November News at Belmont House Care Home in Bodmin. Hello! Allow me to introduce myself, My name is Julie and I am the new activities coordinator at Belmont House Care Home in Bodmin. Churchlakecare.com/belmont-house-care-home-in-bodmin. My role includes promoting positive well-being, meaningful and physical stimulation that engages [...]
A crafty and sensory type of week at Belmont this week! The residents made bird houses out of recycled milk cartons. The residents achieved this by colouring in the milk carton and then cutting out holes for the windows and a door. Once this was achieved, we put in hay, then hung them up in [...]
At Belmont there were lots of VE celebrations this week, we were lucky to receive lots of lovely letters from family and friends, so we spent some time reading these. The residents were really happy as they were from family and friends that we have not seen for a little while. The weather has been [...]
Spring has Sprung At Belmont! At Belmont on Monday we were donated some flowers and plants for our gardening club from Bodmin nursery we had to pick them up and took them back to Belmont. We started up a gardening club so have been spending some time working on the garden and soaking up the [...]
At Belmont this week we have had lots of Easter events going on. On the 11th the residents of Belmont had an Easter party, 6 Residents sat outside on a beautiful sunny day and had lunch, listening to Dementia-friendly music and eating LOTS of chocolate. – It’s Easter, why not??? On Monday to finish events [...]
In January Belmont signed up to the Age UK ‘postcards of kindness’ Project! The project asks people to write and send postcards to our home and residents from other care homes. The idea that it sparks lively conversations among the people who receive them. Belmont felt that this project would be really beneficial to our [...]
The residents at Belmont celebrated the Cornish day of St Pirans day! St Piran's Day is the national day of Cornwall, held on 5 March every year. The day is named after one of the patron saints of Cornwall, Saint Piran, who is also the patron saint of tin miners. St Piran's Day started as one of the many tinners' holidays [...]
The residents at Belmont had more than a flippin’ good time- (Pun intended) on shrove Tuesday! The residents spent their morning by making the pancake mix and giving it a good whisk, we talked about Lent and what that meant for them. some people talked about them giving up chocolate, smoking, and swearing for Lent [...]
Happy Chinese New year 2020!!! Decorations At Belmont, we celebrated the Chinese New Year in true style! We decorated the home with some authentic Chinese paper lanterns and some Chinese wall art. They brightened up the home to no end, and all the residents really like the decorations, before we put them up, some residents [...]
Christmas at Belmont Thank you to Homebase for donating our 7ft Nordic Christmas tree to our home last year! They ran a community project where five local projects in Bodmin were eligible for a free Christmas tree, although there were only five places, we were lucky enough to have one! One of our colleagues had told us [...]
