Activities & Amenities at Chartwell Birchwood in Chilliwack

At Chartwell Birchwood, we offer a variety of optional activities, clubs and outings promoting the six dimensions of senior wellness—physical, social, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and vocational. Whatever your interest, there’s something on our events calendar that will catch you eye, in addition to the many spontaneous activities and socials that take place each day.

  • Senior residents performing chair yoga on chair with the instructor
  • Senior resident group getting ready to play guitar
  • Senior residents chatting and enjoying a glass of wine

Participate in our engaging activities

What are our residents’ favourite activities? There’s chair yoga, our Rhythm ‘N’ Moves exercise program and live entertainment. Don’t forget playing billiards, doing crafts, reading in the library, cultural holiday celebrations and food tasting events. We also arrange fun outings and day trips in our very scenic and culturally-vibrant greater community, whether to try a new restaurant, visit a local art gallery, attend a concert, or take photos and smell the many varieties of tulips, daffodils and hyacinth at the Chilliwack Tulip Festival!

Senior ladies dressed up in Caribbean theme and enjoying drinks

Explore our variety of on-site amenities

You’ll love our amenity spaces at Chartwell Birchwood. Can you see yourself playing billiards, bridge, or hearts with friends in the multi-functional room? Doing yoga or an exercise class in our activity room? Listening to live entertainment and enjoying a glass of wine or a pint with friends in the bar/lounge? Catching a classic black and white film in our movie theatre with a bag of freshly-made popcorn? Browsing through the books in our library and discussing your latest find with a friend over lunch? Here, how you spend each day with us is up to you, but you have a multitude of activities and amenities to choose from if you wish.

tipped over bucket of popcorn

If you want to experience what it’s like to live in our retirement residence, there’s no better way than joining us for an activity or outing. It would be our pleasure to host you for an activity that appeals to your interests or have our Lifestyle & Programs Manager walk you through a sample of a senior living monthly activity calendar!

Discover what Chartwell’s lifestyle is all about

Book a personalized tourBook a personalized tour

See our life enrichment experiences in action

What does the life enrichment experience at Chartwell look and feel like? What activities, social events and programs can you expect if you or a loved one move in? We answer those questions and more in our video series, where you’ll hear from Chartwell experts about our retirement residence programming, daily activities, social experiences, outings and so much more. You’ll also see real Chartwell residents and staff as they participate in some of the goings-on in our retirement communities!