Activities at Cherry Trees Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
Our activities team are constantly striving to mentally and physically stimulate those we support by organising group and individual social events for anyone and everyone to participate in. There are regular outings in the minibus to nearby places of interest, including the local theatre, as well as visits from Pat dogs, musicians and entertainers. We also host bingo, quiz and knitter natter afternoons that we encourage relatives and the local community to attend. Our Gentleman's Club is also open to non-residents every Thursday afternoon from 2:30pm, join us for a tipple of your choice, we have plenty of snacks and chats. For the ladies, our beauty salon provides; hairdressing and nail pampering, you too can enjoy a drink and some well-deserved 'me' time. Activities are one of the most important aspects of a care home, so it is essential that our team are dedicated to ensuring that residents are entertained, and that life at Cherry Trees is fun and active.
Carly Marshall
Carly joined Cherry Trees in March 2023. Her whole life has been working in the care sector and now as lead activity coordinator, Carly said ‘ I absolutely love my role here. I have a real passion to enrich the lives of our residents and make them as special as they can be. I really love to see the faces of our residents when we make these ideas we have come to life, it’s just a magical and rewarding job and I can honestly say I’ve found my forever home’
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 Cherry Trees Care Home
Emma Charlotte's Dance Academy
Our residents had such an uplifting afternoon, enjoying a fabulous performance by dancers at Emma Charlotte's Dance Academy today!!
Our residents had the best time and couldn’t wait to join in!! Marjorie said ‘I just can’t stop dancing now’ and Shirley was completely amazed!! Shirley said, ‘it makes me want to just jump up and dance along with them. It's such a wonderful feeling.’
Thank you so much to Emma and all the beautiful dancers for coming to see us. Their energy and smiles are so contagious and our residents thoroughly enjoyed welcoming them into our home. We cannot wait for many more performances.
Love is in the air!
This Valentine’s Day, staff and residents celebrated the day of love by sharing their years of wisdom for a healthy relationship this Valentine’s.
Getting dating advice from the elderly can be super helpful! They’ve been through the ups and downs of relationships and have loads of wisdom to share. Their experiences can give you a fresh perspective and help you make better choices in your own dating life. Plus, they really understand the emotions and dynamics that come into play, which is always a bonus.
Shirley said : “It has been a lovely day. It was wonderful to see everyone go to so much effort to get involved with the day’s festivities. I really liked hearing the advice from the other residents. Oh, we really did have a good giggle about some of it.”
Bill and Sheila, Val and Malcolm and Gwen and Melvin all shared the love with a lovely romantic three-course meal. Love really was in the air!!
Residents meet local primary school children
Our residents took a trip to our local primary school to meet some of the children. We would like to say a huge thank you to all the wonderful children and staff at Our Lady's Catholic Primary School who made us feel so welcome and invited us into their school for an afternoon tea with lots of fun and games!
It brought back so many wonderful memories for our residents, playing games new and old whilst sharing these experiences with such polite, joyful children - thank you! Our residents look forward to many more trips to the school in the very near future.
Our Wonderful Digital Rainbow Table
Our rainbow table is up and running, and we are so excited to start using it with our residents!
The table is full of wonderful benefits and appears to have a positive effect on well-being by improving mood and reducing apathy and restlessness, which are already apparent within our home. We absolutely love that our residents can utilise it anywhere within our home. For example, in our lounges, cafe, the garden and even in the comfort of their own bedrooms. It’s so lovely being able to bring the fun to them, especially to our residents who are nursed in bed.
This Rainbow table has made a real difference to our residents’ daily lives as it provides entertainment, mental stimulation, and endless opportunities for social interaction. For our residents living with dementia, it can offer moments of joy and connection, helping to combat feelings of loneliness and boredom.
Our resident, Michael, has especially enjoyed using the Rainbow table, and it’s always so lovely to see his face light up whenever he uses it. Michael spends a lot of time being nursed in bed and having the table gives us new opportunities to engage him using various apps which provide Michael with more stimulating activities and more activities of interest.
Cherry Trees Winter Wonderland Winners
We are so honoured to have been invited to the Alcester Town Council Mayors Civic Awards Evening last Friday, where we won Overall Winner for the Alcester Window Wonderland 2025 Competition! Our Lead Activities Co-Ordinator Carly and Assistant Emma represented Cherry Trees where they received a beautiful Original Loose Water Colour Painting by Sharron Harrington along with a certificate of recognition.
With the help of our fabulous residents, we took part and created a beautiful window display taking inspiration from the Nature and Climate category. We had great fun putting this together and joined our community in creating a collection of truly magical window displays to light up Alcester’s roads and neighbourhoods flooded with light, love and creativity.
The Mayors Civic Awards Evening was a fabulous evening enjoyed by all. It was so lovely to meet lots of wonderful people from our community, and we look forward to continuing building strong connections within Alcester as we make lots of exciting plans for 2025.
Out with the old and in with the new!
Staff and residents at Barchester’s Cherry Trees care home, in Alcester, celebrated bringing in the New Year in style this New Year’s Eve.
Cherry Trees New Year’s Eve party was in full swing with cheese, wine and Karaoke singing and lots of fun and laughter had by all. General Manager, Debbie Osborne said: “Our residents love a party and New Year’s Eve has to be the best reason to party! We’re all really excited to see what 2025 has to offer us all. We know this year is going to be a fantastic year here at Cherry Trees.”
Margaret Liberty, resident at Cherry Trees said: “It was lots of fun to join in the party, we all enjoy a cheese and wine party and the singing was such a laugh – I love the excitement of New Year!!”
