Nelson Lodge
Whinfell Close, Eaton Socon, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 8AB
For sat nav's please use – PE19 8AB
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Welcome to Nelson Lodge
A friendly and safe welcome
Find out how we are welcoming new residents into our home, alongside the measures in place to keep everyone safe.
Nelson Lodge in Eaton Socon, St Neots is a contemporary residential care home set in modern and comfortable surroundings. Meticulously finished to a very high standard, Nelson Lodge offers first class care and facilities with en-suite rooms for up to 64 residents, in a light, spacious and elegant setting.
At Anchor, we have a long history of caring for older people and we put our residents at the heart of everything we do. In times of uncertainty, Anchor is a care provider you can depend on. We are proudly not-for-profit with more than 50 years of experience. Nelson Lodge is the result of this approach, carefully conceived with all our experience and passion, to meet the needs and expectations of the next generation of older people.
Our dedicated service, combined with Nelson Lodge’s luxurious environment and facilities, allow our residents to live a full, rich and meaningful life in the company of supportive, like-minded people.
If you are looking for a home for yourself or a loved one, why not find out more about what Nelson Lodge has to offer.
The service at Nelson Lodge is performing very well
Features of Nelson Lodge
Communal facilities
Shared facilities complementing each private residence:
- Engaging activities programme
- Garden
- Communal lounge
- Hobby / craft room
- Hairdressing salon
Care and support
In addition to residential care, we also offer:
- Huntington's disease
- Parkinson's disease
Food and dining
We promote wellbeing through a positive dining experience:
- Nutrition and hydration stations
- Private dining area
- Visitors are welcome to join residents for meals
Life at Nelson Lodge
You’ll always find plenty to do at Nelson Lodge, with a host of daily leisure activities for you to take part in.
Quiet areas and spacious en-suite rooms ensure peace and privacy when you want it. We adopt a ‘pets welcome’ policy by arrangement with the home manager.
A hair and beauty salon, tea room, lounges and quiet spaces are all at hand. On warm days take a stroll in the landscaped gardens and enjoy the peaceful setting. Or simply enjoy a break at one of the outdoor seating areas.
Nelson Lodge is close to the Cross Keys shopping centre and leisure centre. There are also a wide range of local amenities close by including:
• Shops at the Cross Keys shopping centre are two miles away
• Leisure centre, which includes swimming pool and gym is three miles away
• St Neots train station is three miles away
• Papworth Hospital and Hinchingbrooke Hospital are both 10 miles away
• Cinema is two miles away.
Nelson Lodge offers a warm, safe and friendly environment, with facilities to make you feel at home in our care.
Nelson Lodge is purpose built with care in mind and offers a wide range of features and facilities designed with the very latest technology and to Anchor’s exacting specifications:
• DVD players and flat screen TVs in every bedroom
• Fridge in every room and lockable drawers
• Free WiFi throughout the home
• Flat screen TVs and DVD players in some lounges
• Well decorated, tasteful interior design
• Dining room and lounge on every floor
• Quiet lounges and seating areas
• Hair and beauty salon
• Tea room
• Engaging events and activities
• Beautiful landscaped gardens with outdoor seating areas
• Some ground floor rooms with patio doors.

At Nelson Lodge we make the most of meal times.
Anchor has won national recognition for the quality of its food and catering service. And with dining areas on each floor, you don’t have far to go to enjoy each mealtime.
All our menus offer freshly cooked, wholesome, appetising and nutritionally balanced food with a different choice every day. We’ll get to know your likes and dislikes, catering for any special dietary requirements so that you enjoy all of the meals we serve.

You’ll always find plenty to do at Nelson Lodge. With a host of leisure activities for you to take part in, our home has a great community feel where people engage with their fellow residents, families and friends, and continue doing all the things they usually enjoy in a supportive environment.
With social events in the home and the community arranged in collaboration with residents, you can make your life at Nelson Lodge a hive of activity or as gentle as you wish.
Favourite activities, personal interests and ability are discussed when you move in and using this information helps us create a stimulating events and activities calendar matching individual residents’ interests and needs.

Activities calendar
Day | Morning | Lunch | Afternoon | Evening |
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Knit & natter | Luncheon club | Coffee afternoon | Pamper session | |
Sing-a-long | Luncheon club | Arts & crafts | Quiz | |
Gardening | Luncheon club | Games afternoon | Card games | |
Hairdresser | Luncheon club | Entertainment afternoon (monthly) | Dominoes | |
Keep fit class | Fish & chip lunch | One-to-one chit chat | Film club | |
Reminiscence activities | Luncheon club | Scrabble | Bingo | |
Coffee morning | Luncheon club | Jigsaw puzzles | Games evening |
Health
Because each of us is unique, we encourage you to choose how your care is planned and delivered at Nelson Lodge. We work closely with you and your family, to build a personal picture of your needs. Little things can make a big difference, so we always strive to understand what is important to you. We call it person centred care because it’s built around you or your loved one and their preferences. It’s there to help you settle in really quickly, with regular reviews to keep things up-to-date.
Dedicated staff ensure care, support and understanding is tailored to your exact needs. They will ensure that you continue to enjoy maximum independence and 24-hour peace of mind, knowing that all the help and assistance you might need is always at hand.
All carers employed by Anchor are given intensive training and are required to complete NVQ qualifications and a range of in-house courses to assure you of the best possible care.
We provide high quality care and support for residents living with dementia by treating them as individuals. All of our employees are trained and supported by our dedicated dementia team to ensure residents feel valued and able to live life to the full. Ever ready to offer support to family and friends via access to information and advice, their approach respects the uniqueness of each person rather than focusing on the diagnosis of dementia.

3 week's care for the price of 2
As a thank you, we'd like to offer you the opportunity to receive 3 weeks care for the price of 2 weeks when you move into one of our participating care homes on a short stay respite basis.
A safe welcome

Staying safe
We continue to welcome new residents to our home safely. We regularly test residents and colleagues, have been prioritised for Covid-19 vaccinations and are well equipped with high-quality personal protective equipment (PPE).

Staying clean
We ensure a sterile environment with regular deep-cleaning and are committed to protecting everyone living and working in our home through robust infection-control measures.

Staying in touch
We maintain regular contact with families and are doing everything we can to enable residents to see relatives and loved ones wherever it is safe to do so. We also offer virtual show rounds to those considering our home.
Useful information
To start your enquiry simply click 'Make Enquiry' and call us or complete an enquiry form.
We’ll provide you with full details of the home, along with any other information you’d like such as sample menus and activity schedules.
While we can’t currently invite you to visit in person, a member of our friendly team can offer you a virtual show round, a video call or a FaceTime appointment, where you can speak to them one-to-one and take a look around the home and any rooms that are available.
We’re keen to show you what daily life is like here and for you to meet the staff providing care. You can also see for yourself the measures we’ve put in place to keep residents safe.
If you wish to take your enquiry further, an assessment will take place to make sure we can meet your loved one’s care needs. This will be arranged in a safe way by the senior care management team at the home and may be conducted virtually or at a safe social distance with the staff member wearing the required PPE.
Ensuring residents’ safety and wellbeing is our absolute priority.
We’ll put together a comprehensive two-week settling-in programme with you and your loved one, designed entirely around their needs. This provides a dedicated package of one-to-one activities and support that minimises the potential for cross-infection. We’ll use this time to get to know each other and, most importantly, ensure there are plenty of opportunities to maintain regular contact with family and friends using the latest video call technology.
Our chef will arrange delicious meals to suit your loved one’s preferences and dietary requirements and discuss our menus going forward. And, from day one of moving in, our housekeeping teams make sure bedrooms and laundry services are tailored to their needs.
The home manager will discuss every area of moving-in with you in detail to make sure you and your loved one know exactly what to expect and feel confident and welcomed when they come to live with us.
Our homes were among the first in the country to take part in the government’s care home testing programme in July 2020 – and we’ve been regularly testing colleagues and residents since.
- All care home colleagues are routinely tested twice every week.
- All residents are tested on admission to the home and then routinely.
With residents’ safety and wellbeing our absolute priority, we want to assure you that we’re doing everything possible to prevent coronavirus entering our homes.
We are pleased that care home residents and workers have been prioritised to be among the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
The roll-out to Anchor care homes is underway with vaccination teams coming into the home to administer the vaccine.
All new residents will also be prioritised for a vaccination on move-in.
Each of our homes is different so please speak to the care home manager once you have made an enquiry.
Like any other infectious disease, coronavirus can be prevented from spreading with the right training, equipment and infection-control measures.
We are well equipped and have good stocks of high-quality personal protective equipment (PPE) which complies with government requirements.
Our in-house team are highly trained and experienced in ensuring a clean and safe environment and committed to protecting everyone living and working in our home through the consistent use of infection control measures. These measures include regular hand washing, social distancing, putting on clean uniforms upon arrival and the proper use of appropriate PPE.
As members of the British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc), we take cleaning and cleanliness extremely seriously. We use the highest-quality products and are following an enhanced programme of cleaning.
We understand how important visits are for everyone concerned and remain committed to them happening. Throughout the pandemic we’ve been doing everything we can to enable residents to see relatives and loved ones wherever it is safe, appropriate, and in line with Public Health England guidance.
Our teams have worked hard to facilitate visits in our gardens and external areas at some of our homes and, where full safety criteria has been met and local health protection advice permits, we now have an inside visiting space with a screen.
Of course, this is all subject to changes in government guidance and local lockdown restrictions.
We will always permit visits in exceptional circumstances.
Each of our homes is different and you’ll have the opportunity to speak directly to the manager of the care home you’re interested in.
In these challenging times we’ve invested significantly in technology – such as Skype and FaceTime – so you can stay in regular touch.
During this difficult time, we’re keeping life as normal as possible so residents feel safe, secure, and happy. Which means your loved one can expect great fresh food, a wealth of activities and friendly company.
Residents continue to enjoy delicious, freshly-made meals every day, with a choice of menu daily, prepared by our expert catering teams.
Our creative activity programmes, developed by our in-house team of wellness coordinators, aims to keep residents as active and healthy as possible, should they wish to take part, ranging from person-centred activities to home-wide events.
Getting here
Nelson Lodge
Whinfell Close, Eaton Socon, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 8AB
For sat nav's please use – PE19 8AB

What's happening at Nelson Lodge
Some candle making on cherry blossom and painting on lavender #CS1 #Anchoractive #Nelsonlodge thank you Cheyenne, Sarah and Jayne ~Emma @AnchorHanover https://t.co/A8cWqyUAIq
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twitterSome lovely 1-2-1, meaningful engagement today, thanks to the crafty skills of colleague Rachel and the wonderful donation of a brand new sewing machine @AnchorHanover. Thank you Rachel for the photos ~Emma https://t.co/VNg4Q8A3JA
twitterSome lovely 1-2-1, meaningful engagement today, thanks to the crafty skills of colleague Rachel and the wonderful donation of a brand new sewing machine @AnchorHanover https://t.co/CCBAh3DLww
twitter#Karaoke afternoon with the #residents on daffodil 🎤🎼 Thank you Sarah for the photos ~Emma @AnchorHanover https://t.co/V9KBSJ2DCd
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twitterColouring and spending some time together, before we started to colour We had a ball / balloon fitness Thank you Pammy for the photos ~Emma @AnchorHanover https://t.co/KIfzywwFDG
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twitterThe most wonderful time of the year – Christmas at Anchor Hanover
Despite the holiday looking a little different this year, within our care homes, Christmas remained as important as ever...
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twitterGreat news for us @Nelson_Lodge the role out of the #covid19 #vaccine 💉 has started. @MattHancock @BorisJohnson #ThankYou https://t.co/18ph4CP5du
twitterOur New Deputy Chef second day on the job. #Modified Food challenge accepted Thank you Richard for the photos #freshfood #choice #talentedchefs #homecooked #carehome #mouthwatering #AllDietaryrequirements ~Emma @AnchorHanover https://t.co/3R32VuHp3G
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twitterLovely New Years Eve Party for all the residents. They all loved it in our new pub ‘Jolly Anchor’ #cs1 #nelsonlodge Thank you Callum for the photos and write up ~Emma @AnchorHanover https://t.co/iRye2iqUH6
twitterHow wonderful, news eve party for the residents of Nelson lodge ❤️ Happy new year all the best for 2021 to residents and the staff amazing amazing ❤️thank you Pammy for the photos and write up ~Emma @AnchorHanover https://t.co/U6J6jDzOz1
twitterA think a lot of us are pleased that its finally the last day of 2020 We welcome 2021 with open arms #bekind2021 #NewYearsEve #HappyNewYear2021 https://t.co/ckJnWII8WN
twitterunder any circumstances our team are amazing, but this year they have been truly phenomenal. If you agree, please do write a review by either clicking on the link. Thank you ~Emma https://t.co/uE66LABrDJ @AnchorHanover https://t.co/kTZt8BrQXf
twitterEven though you cant be with us this year in person you can be with us in spirit .... to help us celebrate the new year why not donate a bottle to our new pub @Nelson_Lodge @AnchorHanover https://t.co/b6O9Fk5juR
twitterHappy Christmas from all of us at Nelson Lodge #cs1 #nelsonlodge Thank you Callum for the photos ~Emma @AnchorHanover https://t.co/H7FC22Nb2M
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twitterFrom us all @Nelson_Lodge #MerryChristmas A special thank you to all the hard working staff who are making today so special for our residents #carehome #christmasisnotcancelled #keyworkers #MerryXmas https://t.co/7zqeoFbMxT
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