Activities at Arbour Court Care Home
Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a variety of activities and events for all residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus, visits from entertainers and musicians and small group and individual activities in quiet yet stimulating environments. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect resident individual interests as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Arbour Court Care Home
National Smoothie Day
During our Barchester Moving week we celebrated National Smoothie day and spoke about the benefits of exercise and eating healthy. We displayed a range of juices and fruit for residents to make their own smoothies. Residents loved independently making their own drinks and couldn’t get enough of their fruity drinks.
Father’s Day Brunch
To celebrate Father’s Day we hosting a Father’s Day afternoon tea. We played hit songs from the 50 and 60’s. We all dance and sang away while enjoying light snacks and drinks such as beers and pork pies. This event brought so much laughter and joy to our residents and enabled them to stay active and keep their mind alive by reminiscing about the songs they were hearing.
Get Barchester Moving
Arbour Court took part in Get Barchester Moving initiative to raise money and move minuets for Barchester’s Charitable Foundation. As a home we gained over 270 hours’ worth of move minuets by having danceathons, sports day, Zumba sessions and armchair tennis for all families, residents and staff to enjoy. Barchester also raised over £600 for the charitable foundation which helps individuals and small community groups and charities across England, Scotland and Wales.
National Cocktail Day
In honour of National Cocktail day our residents loved creating, shaking and mixing their own signature cocktails by using different juices and fruits with a dash of prosecco. Some residents chose to have their cocktail soaking up the sun in our garden whilst other chose to have it with their afternoon meal.
Celebrating Chelsea Flower Show
In honour of the Chelsea Flower show our residents have created beautiful centrepieces using artificial flowers to decorate our home by displaying them in our dining room. We discussed the vibrant colours and discussed what flowers we should grow in our gardens. Our residents also enjoyed watching the flower shows on the TV and seeing all of the beautiful flowers and gardens.
Arbour Court Goes Live!
Arbour Court has moved from paper to digital care planning. Our new online system EnabLE allows staff to use hand -held technology to access our care plans and life enrichment preferences via an app.
The system will help us to improve communication and collaboration between teams. Increase accuracy of care intervention recording and become more environmentally friendly.
