It's a cracker - send BUPA a joke and win a prize

BUPA care homes looking for the country's top jokes  as they prepare for a cracking Christmas this year.

BUPA has appealed for the public to send in their favourite jokes and the top tenfrom across the UK will be placed inside homemade crackers that care home residents will enjoy as part of their Christmas celebrations.

Siobhan Drane, Bupa’s community affairs manger said: “Everyone has their favourite joke—we want to hear them and have as many people as possible joining in with our residents to have fun over the festive period.

“We like to fill our homes with festive cheer at Christmas and can think of no better way than cracking some jokes.”

There's still time to enter your favourite funny story by s emailing  their joke and their name to [email protected] before Wednesday December 1.

A selected short-list of the top ten jokes will be publicised on BUPA's intranet so that staff from across the world can vote for their favourite.

There will be two winning jokes, one from a Bupa care home resident and one from a member of the community.

The winners of Bupa’s ‘It's a cracker’ competition will each receive a special prize, with the community member winning £100 of High Street vouchers. 

Siobhan added: “Staff and residents have had a great time so far, planning their festivities and trying out jokes on each other. “Now we need favourite jokes from the local community as well to make this competition go off with a bang.”

Residents in over 300 care homes across the UK will be pulling crackers throughout the month of December, with care homes hosting Christmas fairs, parties, dinners and carol singing concerts.