International Men’s Day – Thursday 19th November 2020
Males from the Centre enjoyed taking part via Zoom with International’s Men’s Day, organised by Orchardville to raise awareness of men’s well-being and promote better health. They 2 groups covered topics on: Men’s Active Lifestyles Men’s Mental Health Nutrition & Fluid Intake Food demonstrations Exercise demonstrations followed by music from DJ Graham Rankin. Christopher enjoyed […]
Upcycled – Outdoor Christmas Crafts
The Blackstone key group have been very busy upcycling an old pallet to make a snowman. We drew on our snowman design and painted it, then added a hat and scarf for the finishing touches. We also sanded and painted and old wooden tree that was at the Centre. We used mirror tiles to look […]
Crafts for SALE !
Please have a look at all our Crafts that we have been busy making. Please see caption under pictures for prices. We have some great offers on: *Spend over £20 to receive a free item* *Pick n mix boxes- range from £10 onwards* If you would like to purchase any please get in contact […]
Halloween treat time!
We decorated cupcakes for our Halloween Party and chose spooky themes such as candy skulls, spiders and spiders webs and skeleton faces. We had our first socially distanced Halloween Disco with all our favourite Halloween songs and loved showing off our moves whilst in our Halloween costumes. We even had a visit from royalty! […]
Spooky Halloween Milkshakes!!
Here at the Beeches we’ve been getting into the Halloween “spirit”! We made banana milkshakes with a spooky twist… we added green food colouring to our milkshakes to make it look like a Witches brew. We were able to follow the recipe that we chose with support from Kelly-Marie (our Keyworker) which we’ve posted below […]
Pumpkin Investigation
On Monday 26th October a group in the Blackstone enjoyed doing investigations on our home grown pumpkins. Our investigation included; guessing the size of our pumpkins how many lines where on the outside of it will it sink or float the amount of seeds inside it – we where totally surprised that the smaller pumpkin( […]
Frankie the Frankenstein!!
The Blackstone key group had great fun making this Frankenstein out of an old pallet. It took a few steps to get the completed look. We sanded the pallet – to make it nice and smooth Painted the whole pallet with white paint ( 2 coats) We then drew our Frankenstein design onto the pallet […]
Important Announcement – REOPENING
The Beeches Resource Centre is delighted to announce that we intend to reopen our service from Monday 10th August 2020. This will a phased reopening with limited capacity to ensure we provide a safe environment for our clients and staff that complies with the guidance on social distancing and prevents the transmission of COVID-19. We […]
Autumn – Handprint Trees
The Blackstone group had a discussion about Autumn, and how it is many of our groups favourite time of the year. We love all the colours associated with Autumn. The group thought it would be a good idea to do our ‘handprint trees’ to tie in with our Autumn discussion, each individual decided the colours […]
Staying Connected
Lockdown has been a very challenging time for everyone. Looking to the future we have been getting in touch with all our community clients to see how they have been managing while the Resource Centre has been closed. Their friends in the Beeches Nursing Home thought they might enjoy a favourite activity they have been […]