Activities at Ashfields Care Home
At Ashfields, we strive to make our care and services as person-centred as we possibly can, and this includes our provision of activities. We will give prospective residents a 'Getting to Know Me' booklet to fill out with their loved ones before their arrival, which includes a little life history and a tick sheet for a vast amount of activities. This enables us to offer bespoke activities and helps us to learn valuable information about residents and what might stimulate them in conversations and trips.
Our specialist activities and lifestyle staff make sure there are always meaningful activities to take part in, such as gardening, baking and trips out to various locations nearby, including local cathedrals, cafés, garden centres and much more.
Residents are encouraged to take part and we try to get every person out at least once a month to places they might be interested in visiting, but it is always their choice, ultimately. We believe that having choice is very integral in helping residents feel that they still have control of their lives.
Activities are provided by everyone in our home, from Carers and specialised activities staff, right through to the admin team.
We are a registered member of the National Activity Providers Association (NAPA), which means that we are always working to make the quality of life of all residents as high as possible by offering person-centred activities that aim to stimulate both mentally and physically.
Xen Greenwood
My name is Xen and I am lucky enough to be the Activities Coordinator here at Ashfields.
I have experience working in care homes in Activities and leisure and lifestyle roles. In my own time I love to go antique shopping and making crafts.
I love being part of the Ashfields team and supporting our residents to live their best lives with fun, interesting, and varied activities available every week. I always feel its important for the residents to have the opportunity to explore new interests as well as keeping up with previous interests and hobbies.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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 Ashfields Care Home
International Flower Day
Residents celebrated International Flower Day by participating in varied flower-based activities.
Residents enjoyed looking at the different types of flowers, taking in the colours and the scents. This activity stimulated creative, sensory, cognitive and social needs whist enhancing residents wellbeing.
We would like to say a massive thank you to our local super markets, Tesco and Morrisons, for their ongoing support, donating these beautiful flowers and making our residents' day.
Delivering Joy
Ashfields joined Dunelm Norwich’s 2020 Christmas campaign, called ‘Delivering Joy’. Customers and colleagues were encouraged to take a tag from their Christmas tree detailing a first name and age of an Ashfields resident, and they kindly filled a shoe box with presents. The kind Community Champion visited Ashfields to deliver the presents.
Christmas Jumper Day
Christmas Jumper Day is an annual fundraising campaign organized by charity Save the Children in the UK.
On Friday 11th December, people are encouraged to make the world better with a sweater and raise funds for Save the Children by making a kind donation.
All residents and staff at Ashfields were encouraged to buy, borrow or decorate their own special Christmas jumpers. Some of the residents have got very creative and decorated their own,
Ashfields had their very own selfie station for the residents to take pictures for Christmas cards to their relatives, however, the props didn’t manage to stay in one place and the whole home was full of festive cheer!
What a fantastic way to raise money, as well as enhancing the well-being of residents living at Ashfields.
Christmas Cheer
We are working on a Christmas project alongside The Norfolk Archant, who are running a Christmas card initiative with local primary schools to write individual Christmas cards addressed to residents at care homes.
Some local primary schools are writing individual cards addressed to residents at care homes so they all have a Christmas card this year.
The Norfolk Archant have selected Ashfields to be involved and for the residents to receive a Christmas card from a local primary school pupil.
One of our residents took a shine to these cards she remembers making these with his children and offered to help deliver them around the home.
Christmas Care Package
Ashfields sent a care package to a staff member who is a granddaughter of a residents and her colleagues on Cringleford Ward at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. This was to show are support in these unprecedented times. We shortly received this lovely photo in response!
A Kind Donation
Morrison’s very kindly donated pumpkins to us for Halloween. We have used these pumpkins to create our very own pumpkin patch in the garden.
Over the Halloween period, the residents will be able to do their very own pumpkin picking in the comfort of their home.
Upcoming events
Dementia Café
Please come and join us for our monthly Dementia Cafe. Open door for everyone.
Professional Networking Event
We are delighted to be launching our first networking event at Ashfields. Everyone welcome.
