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
Chinese New Year
Residents helped us to decorate in preparation for Chinese New Year. Naturally, we indulged in plenty of Chinese food, read out some fortune cookies and dressed up for the occasion.
Valentine's Day
Residents baked and decorated cupcakes to prepare for our Valentine's Ball, where we had live musical entertainment from Splash Duo.
National Pizza Day
We were joined by a pizza chef, who kindly volunteered to come into the home from his family-ran business, Donellis, which is located in Norwich city centre.
He brought all of the ingredients, went through what they were and why they are used and also taught us how to make pizza and dough balls.
We made a few pizzas and some dough balls for residents to try.
This is a perfect example of Norwich becoming a demenita-friendly city.
Doughnut Run
The local radio – Radio Norwich – dropped off some doughnuts as part of their 'Doughnut Run' initiative.
Winnie the Pooh Day
We celebrated Winnie the Pooh Day by hosting a teddy bear's picnic – it was great fun!
10 Years of Service
Head Housekeeper, Laura Ibbot, celebrated 10 years of service here at Ashfields.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
