Beechwood Care Centre

19/12/2025

🌟👏Employee of the Month – November!👏🌟

It has been an absolute pleasure to present Jo Pickering, Beechwood’s Team Leader, with Employee of the Month for November!

After a very busy month with new admissions, Jo has gone above and beyond supporting residents, families, and staff, helping to warmly welcome all our new residents into the home.💙

Jo has gone out of her way to support new families, sprinkling a little bit of Beechwood magic to ensure all our new residents feel welcomed and well cared for.

A huge congratulations and thank you, Jo - very well deserved! ✨

19/12/2025

❄️Keeping Our Community Warm This Winter ❄️

We’re so proud that Beechwood Care Home, one of our Highgate Care Homes, has been featured on ITV News for an amazing initiative in partnership with The Hinge Centre - helping local people stay warm during the colder months.

Care doesn’t stop at our doors. It’s about supporting our community and making a real difference. This appeal shows the incredible dedication of our Beechwood team and the kindness of everyone who has already contributed.

👉Watch the full story here: https://www.itv.com/watch/news/care-home-sets-up-appeal-to-keep-people-warm-in-winter/4n6wmzk

18/12/2025

❄️ Keeping Our Community Warm This Winter ❄️

We’re proud to share our ITV News story with The Hinge Centre, where our winter clothing donation programme is helping local people stay warm during the colder months.

👉 Watch the full story here: https://www.itv.com/watch/news/care-home-sets-up-appeal-to-keep-people-warm-in-winter/4n6wmzk

16/12/2025

🌟 Community in Action This Winter! 🌟

We’re incredibly proud to share our latest community programme with The Hinge Centre, helping keep vulnerable members of the Bridlington community warm this winter.

Alongside Foresters Lodge and Oaktree Hall and Lodge Care Home, residents, colleagues, families, and neighbours have been collecting warm winter clothing, essential supplies, and food donations to support those facing hardship and homelessness in Bridlington.

From winter coats and thermal layers to sleeping bags, flasks, camping items and thoughtful handwritten notes, donations are being lovingly gathered and distributed by The Hinge Centre to those most in need.

👉 Read the full story here:

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/care-home-launches-winter-warmth-10705563

'We’d encourage anyone who can spare an item or two to drop a donation in'

15/12/2025

🎉🎂Happy 94th Birthday, Jim!🎂🎉

Beechwood Care Centre was full of smiles and celebration as we marked Jim’s 94th birthday! Jim’s wife Hazel joined us to help celebrate the occasion, bringing along presents, cards and plenty of well wishes.🎁🎈

Jim was surrounded by family and staff who all came together to make his day extra special. There was lots of laughter and happy memories shared throughout the day. A wonderful day had by all.💙💐

04/12/2025

🎉 It’s that exciting time of year again – the Highgate Care Awards are nearly here! 🎉

Taking place on 12th February 2026 (with more details to follow nearer the time), this special event is a highlight in our calendar and a chance to celebrate the incredible kindness, compassion and dedication shown by our staff every single day.

Whether you’re based in one of our homes or part of our wider support teams, this is your chance to shine a spotlight on those who truly go above and beyond.

We’re now inviting nominations from all staff at Beechwood Care Centre, as well as encouraging residents, relatives and visiting professionals to get involved too!

🏆 Award Categories

• Care Home of the Year
• Home Manager of the Year
• Leader of the Year (Care & Nursing)
• Registered Nurse of the Year
• Born to Care Award – Care Staff
• Home Care Person of the Year
• Catering Team of the Year
• Sparkle & Shine Award – Laundry & Domestic Team of the Year
• Resident Wellbeing Award – Activities & Engagement
• New to Care Award – Open to all departments/team members
• Making People Smile Award
• Together We Care Award
• Behind the Scenes Hero
• The Heart of Highgate Award

💌 How to Nominate

Speak to our Home Manager, Sarah Kirk, for details on how to receive the nomination forms and how to submit them.

🗓️ Deadline for Nominations: 15th December

Please make sure all completed forms are submitted by this date so we can prepare for our big celebration event.

Thank you for helping us recognise and celebrate the amazing individuals and teams who make Highgate Care such a kind, caring and inspiring place to be.

friends of Beechwood Care Centre

01/12/2025

We have extended our Christmas Clothes Collection programme with The Hinge Centre until the 16th December!

As a collection point for donations for the homeless and vulnerable families in Bridlington, we'll be accepting the following items:

• Ambient Foods - Cups of soups/pot noodles etc.
• Winter coats - New or excellent condition
• New sleeping bags
• New ground sheets for the floor
• Men's thermal layers (New)
• Flasks, thermal mugs, plastic camping cutlery (New)
• Torches

If you have any questions, please get in touch with us via this link: https://www.highgatecare.co.uk/beechwood-care-centre/

24/11/2025

We are accepting clothes donations in partnership with The Hinge Centre to support the homeless and vulnerable in Bridlington.

If you have any spare clothes that you would be happy to donate, including coats, scarfs and sleeping bags, please bring them to our home collection point.

Here at Beechwood Care Centre we are working in collaboration with The Hinge Centre as a collection point for donations for the homeless. Between the hours of 09:00 and 17:00 until the 30th November, we are accepting donations of sleeping bags, warm coats, hats, gloves, etc.

20/11/2025

Achieving a digital milestone! 💻✨

We’re proud to share that we’ve been awarded Bronze level on the Digital Maturity Ladder, accredited by the Digital Records Enabling and Management Support Team.

This achievement recognises the expertise and competence of our team in Information Technology and how we use it every day to:

💙 Support our staff with efficient, reliable systems

💙 Enhance care and communication for our residents

💙 Work seamlessly with health and social care professionals

💙 Keep families informed and connected

To learn more about our home and how we support residents and their families, follow this link: https://www.highgatecare.co.uk/beechwood-care-centre/

17/11/2025

We are proud to partner with The Hinge Centre to help provide support for local communities in Bridlington.

Our residents and staff love welcoming the Kids Club to our home for fun and games, as well as supporting the charity to make a difference to people's lives every day.

11/11/2025

Here at Beechwood Care Centre, we have been working in collaboration with Quay Academy School and Little Bees Nursery as a community artwork project for the “Together we remember” event aligned with Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day. The residents have enjoyed looking at the beautiful artwork and choosing pieces to be displayed in their rooms. The home has been decorated with the lovely artwork and poems the children have created.

Today the children from Quay Academy have visited us here at Beechwood and have enjoyed looking through the East Riding Archives First World War archive boxes, looking at local soldier medals and death pennies, and looking at books detailing Bridlington soldiers that died in the First and Second World Wars. The children also had the chance to try on replica soldier uniforms.

We have all had the special experience of listening to resident and visitor memories of their time in service and memories of the Second World War. To finish off the reminiscence session we have all enjoyed a homemade poppy bun.