Activities at Awel-Y-Mor Care Home
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Jo & Julie
Awel-Y-Mor's activities team consists of three Activities Coordinators, each having a specialist unique role within the group, including work in the multi-sensory concept, as well as organising days out, trips to sporting events and pop concerts, and arranging themed days. Jo has been with us for over ten years, beginning her Barchester career as a Carer, and Julie joined us in 2018.
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 Awel-Y-Mor Care Home
Tour de Barchester
Residents, family and staff enjoyed cheering on the cyclists here at Awel Y Mor. We enjoyed decorating the outside areas with balloons and flags for the arrival of the cyclists. We had bikes out in the outside gazebo which residents got a little competitive seeing how many miles they could do. The cyclists enjoyed lunch here and we had a lovely ice cream afternoon with lots of different flavours, the strawberry cheesecake ice cream was the winner! A resident was very happy to win the tour de Barchester ‘guess the name of the dog competition’. The winning name was Lexi.
Wales Air Ambulance
Here at Awel y mor residents enjoyed an afternoon talk from the wales air ambulance service. All of the residents’ found it very interesting and of our residents did a write up about the afternoon which is below.
Guide Dog talk
This month we enjoyed a visit from two guide dogs and there owner Chris . Chris explained to us all the training they had to do to get them where they are today. Chris’ friend Dave came along who adopts future guide dog puppies when they are around 8 weeks old and starts the basic training for around one year. Everyone had a great afternoon and residents enjoyed asking lots of questions and spending time with the guide dogs. The guide dogs also had a trip around the home to meet other residents in the lounges and their rooms.
French Restaurant Evening at Awel y Mor
Residents, staff and families Enjoyed a wonderful French restaurant themed evening.
To start with residents and family members enjoyed pre drinks and nibbles while listening to some French music. Everyone was seated and to start with they enjoyed a starter of French onion soup or vegetable soup, steak, chicken chasseur, salmon or vegetable lasagne for the main, and crème Brule or profiteroles for dessert.
Residents and families really enjoyed the different types or red and white French wine, and also coffee liquors after dessert.
We had a fabulous singer in for the evening entertaining us, singing all different genres of music, everyone said they really enjoyed.
We finished off the evening with a raffle and a few people up dancing.
Elvis in the building
This week residents at Awel y mor enjoyed a visit from Jimmy Elvis after a few games of bingo.
They enjoyed listening to lots of Elvis classics, along with a bit of Roy Orbison and John Denver, they had fun singing and clapping along, and also put a few requests for their favourite songs in.
It was a lovely happy atmosphere all afternoon and all residents said they thoroughly enjoyed.
Donation to our local School
We have donated Sensory Equipment to our local Secondary School, who are setting up a Well Being room for pupils to use. This is also our Pen Pal scheme School. We will be visiting when the room is setup.
