We’re delighted to let you know that we’re planning to open the new temporary Blackhall Library at Davidson Main’s Primary School on Monday (8th June).
The opening hours for the library, alongside a programme of planned events and activities, will be available on the Blackhall Library webpage soon.
Due to essential works the library will be closed for one day only on Thursday 25 June. Unfortunately it hasn’t been possible to schedule these works ahead of the library opening, but we’ve been working with contractors to minimise disruption and limit the closure to a single day.
We’re looking forward to welcoming you all into our new space very soon!
Strachan House and Queens Manor in Edinburgh will be opening their doors to the local community for an day of coffee and cakes on Saturday 27th June.
Taking place between 10.00 am – 4.00 pm guests will be able to enjoy home-made cakes prepared by the home’s Head Chef, and will have the chance to meet the team and take a tour of the home.
Frances Fisher, General Manager at Strachan House, says: “I’m excited about welcoming new visitors and existing friends of the home to our open day.
“Looking for care can be a little bit daunting, but our team here at Strachan House will do all we can to provide all of our guests with the guidance and support they may need, and answer all of their questions, big or small.
“Our open day is a great chance to enjoy some delightful entertainment in a homely and friendly setting- hope to see you all there!”
Our varied life enrichment programme keeps residents active, and provides a daily choice of engaging physical, mental and spiritual activities tailored to residents’ interests and abilities.
Strachan House care home is run by Barchester Healthcare, one of the UK’s largest care providers, which is committed to delivering personalised care across its care homes and hospitals. Strachan House provides nursing care and dementia care from respite care to long term stays.
A Senior carer at Strachan House care home in Edinburgh has received a prestigious 20 Year Service Award in celebration of working at Barchester Healthcare for 20 years.
Lyra Quintanilla now a senior carer started at Barchester in May 2006 and has worked with residents and their relatives to ensure that their needs have been met over the years.
Adele Keenan, Employee Services Director at Barchester said: “I’m always pleased to hear stories about the long service of Barchester staff and am delighted Lyra has achieved this milestone.
“It is dedication like this that ensures our residents are provided with a happy place to live.”
Fran Fisher General Manager of Strachan House said: “We’re delighted to be celebrating Lyra’s years of loyal service with Strachan House.
“She has demonstrated her dedication and loyalty to this home and its residents year after year. I speak for all of us here at Strachan House when I say that I’m looking forward to many more years of working with Lyra!”
Strachan House care home is run by Barchester Healthcare, one of the UK’s largest care providers, which is committed to delivering personalised care across its care homes and hospitals. Strachan House provides residential care, nursing care and dementia care for 83 residents from respite care to long term stays.
We’re busy finalising the set up at our new temporary library building at Davidson’s Mains Primary School, and we’re looking forward to opening and sharing the space with the community.
Unfortunately we’ve experienced some delays with finishing the building works and installing some of the furniture. This means we’ve had to postpone the planned opening of the library by a few weeks.
We’ll announce the opening date via our website in the coming weeks:
Residents and staff at Strachan House care home in Edinburgh were delighted to welcome back furry friends for their annual dog show.
Residents at the home are all keen animal lovers and were delighted to host the dog show a yearly event in the home.
Canine fans at Strachan House were on the edge of their seat as the winners in each category were announced. Residents and staff joined in judging and couldn’t wait to see who won the award for best in show.
Daisy the beautiful Lhasa Apso won this prize but no one was left out with residents also giving away prizes for the waggiest tail, most perfect pedigree and best trick.
Fran Fisher General Manager at the home, said: “Our residents all love animals, we have lots of visits from different therapy pets which always cause a great deal of excitement.
“The dog show is absolute heaven for our canine-loving residents here, they absolutely love seeing all the different breeds and seeing which one comes out on top!”
Resident, Janet commented: “I have always been a huge fan of all sorts of different animals but these dogs are all just so wonderful.”
Janet even gave up her spot on the judging panel as she just loved them all so much!
Strachan House is run by Barchester Healthcare, one of the UK’s largest care providers, which is committed to delivering high-quality care across its care homes and hospitals. Strachan House provides nursing care, respite care and dementia nursing care for 83 residents.
It was dictionaries at the ready at Strachan House care home in Blackhall, where super-competitive residents were keen to get involved in National Scrabble Day.
Staff and residents at Strachan House care home decided to embrace their love of scrabble and share it with others.
Strachan House host a scrabble club daily in the service after a few of the residents bonded over their mutual love for the game.
Resident’s attending scrabble club couldn’t believe their luck when the team informed them that it was National Scrabble Day.
Zoe Bowers the Activities Co-ordinator at the home commented: “Our residents all love to play Scrabble, we regularly have a game on the go and we love a good debate about what is and isn’t a word – thank goodness we always have our trusty dictionary on hand to settle things!
“Some of our residents have the most amazing vocabularies!”
Fran Fisher General Manager at the home, said: “It has been a brilliant day and we have all enjoyed playing lots of scrabble, it is amazing what you learn when you get together round a Scrabble board.
“We would all love to have other scrabble clubs reach out so we can take this competition up a notch”.
Strachan House is run by Barchester Healthcare, one of the UK’s largest care providers, which is committed to delivering high-quality care across its care homes and hospitals. Strachan House provides nursing care, residential care, respite care.
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STRACHAN HOUSE RESIDENTS VISIT WEE MUSEUM OF MEMORY
Residents from Strachan House care home have recently enjoyed a trip to the wee museum of memory in Leith to take a trip down memory lane. The museum which brings to life objects from the not so distant past is a perfect way for the Strachan House residents to reconnect and be nostalgic about days gone by.
Following a recent meeting whereby residents and their loved ones expressed a wish to have more dementia outings added to our programme we were blessed to find this museum.
General Manager Fran Fisher was blown away with the amount of things that the residents were able to view and engage with, stating: “It’s amazing that our residents are able to see things that they used and enjoyed when they were young, the wedding dress was a particular favourite of both myself and the two ladies lucky enough to go on the trip”.
Strachan House care home is run by Barchester Healthcare, one of the UK’s largest care providers, which is committed to delivering personalised care across its care homes and hospitals. Strachan house provides residential care, nursing care and dementia care for 83 residents from respite care to long term stays.
We are excited to bring this exhibition to Scotland for only the 2nd time in its history. Please look at the notice to see when it is available to see and come along with some friends.
Residents at Strachan House care home, in Blackhall enjoyed a fun, friendship-filled take on Valentine’s Day, enjoying their very first “Pal-entines” experience. Using a speed friendship format residents met staff, residents and others to chat about their interests in order to gain more insight into likes and dislikes of those living and working in the home.
Honouring friendships and meaningful moments is something Strachan House strive to do and it was beautiful to see everyone connecting on a personal level.
Staff were asked questions about their favourite topics at school, their hobbies and about their children and residents were able to share what they’d like to do more of and met others with similar interests. Plans were made by the amazing activities team to ensure many of the hobbies discussed were added to our activitie’s planner.
Fran Fisher General Manager at Strachan House Care Home said: “What a great day we had. It was so special to bring everyone together from all different units and departments to have a beautiful afternoon of friendship.
“We wanted to move away from the typical valentine’s day celebration focussing more on what love means to us. At Strachan house we’re blessed to have so many wonderful people from different backgrounds and walks of life and it was an amazing way to celebrate everyone together”.
Marion Cooper, a resident at the home was excited to be involved and had her questions to ask pre-prepared, we spoke German, laughed about our poor French speaking abilities and we even had the drinks trolley out free flowing with prosecco.
Strachan HouseCare Home is run by Barchester Healthcare, one of the UK’s largest care providers, which is committed to delivering high-quality care across its care homes and hospitals.
Strachan House Care home provides residential care, nursing care and dementia care for up to 83 residents.
TWO WEEKS FREE AT ALL EDA STUDIOS 
