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
Rackheath Fête
We took part in a fête at Rackheath, which was held to raise awareness and funds for a lovely boy called Callum.
We met people from the local community and we were also able to raise money for the residents' fund, which is always a great bonus.
Choir Singing
We have recently taken part in singing for a choir at the Forum in Norwich. Residents enjoyed themselves very much, talking and meeting new people; you could see it by how it just put a smile on their faces. We had the great pleasure of our voices being recorded and will be doing this every second Tuesday of the month from now on.
Care Home Open Day at Ashfields
We were blessed with good weather for this year’s national care home open day. We had some weird and wacky activities which included stilt walkers and balloon modellers.
Thank you to all who visited us on the day.
Weird and wonderful animals!
We had some weird and wonderful animals from around the world come to visit us here at Ashfields, this included a tree frog that took a shine to our walls!
A Day in the Sunshine
We enjoyed a lovely day in the sunshine at the very beautiful Sheringham Park on the North Norfolk Coast. The Rhododendrons were all out and everyone was commenting on what a wonderful day it was.
Superheroes Visit Ashfields
Superheroes came to Ashfields for the day and participated in many games and challenges on behalf of residents to win prizes for them. A great day was had by all!
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.
