COVID 19

Letter to families BRCA As part of our COVID19 pandemic contingency plan the Centre has been closed from Friday 20th March for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately we are unable to offer any indication of how long this closure will last. All Centre staff have been redeployed to other duties as part of our plan to […]

Pancake Day!!

25/2/2020 – Pancake Day at the Centre. We all enjoyed making homemade pancakes – although deciding which topping we were going to have was a big decision!!  

Catherine’s Creature Comforts

Catherine visited the Centre on 4/2/2020 for a taster session. Everyone got to pet and learn information about guinea pigs, a bearded dragon and a lesser hedgehog tenrecs. Some of us held the guinea pigs on our knees and fed them vegetables; one of them jumped off the table onto the floor. Some of us […]

Wool – Donations

Currently at the Centre we are in the process of making blankets/shawls for individuals in Bosnia to help keep them warm. We would be very grateful for any wool that you may no longer need and wish to donate to the Centre so that we can put it to good use to make blankets/shawls for […]

Beeches Better You Project

This project is a Partnership between The Public Health Practitioner with S.E Trust ( Caroline McGrath) and The Beeches. To improve health and wellbeing of clients within the Centre. A range of activities have been taken within the Centre including: Chi Me, online safety and healthy eating. This project has been put forward for a […]

5 Steps Ambassador

Training completed on 5/11/19. “Take 5 Steps to well being”  is a set of public health messages aimed at improving the well being of the whole population. The Resource Centre will use the Take 5 Steps programme to help identify opportunities to promote wellbeing, motivate and support clients to have a go and embrace this […]

Christmas Party at the Centre!

On Thursday 19th December 2019 the clients and staff enjoyed the annual Christmas party. Music was provided by the Brilliant DJ Jamie B,  we all had a great time dancing/singing to all the greatest hits! Santa Claus visited the Centre and gave all the clients a lovely gift.    

Christmas Closures Dates

We would like to remind you that the Centre will be closed for the Christmas Holidays on the following dates: 24th December 2019 – 1st January 2020 Inclusive. The Centre will close at 3pm on the 23rd December 2019 and re-open on Thursday 2nd January 2020. We would like to take this opportunity to wish […]

Christmas Cinema afternoon

Wednesday 11th December 2019 the Blackstone key groups enjoyed  watching a Christmas film in the Training Suite.

Dasher the reindeer!

Dasher the reindeer visited the Nursing home on Thursday 12th December. 4 Clients from the Centre got the chance to go over and meet him. We learnt that reindeers don’t like anyone touching their antlers.