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
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!!”
Christmas Shoebox Appeal for Our Furry Four-Legged Friends At The Cotswolds Dogs & Cats Home
Our residents and staff here at Cherry Trees believe cats and dogs deserve a treat at Christmas too!
This year we wanted to make a difference by helping out at The Cotswolds Dogs & Cats Home - CDCH by donating to the Festive Shoebox Appeal. The Cotswolds Dogs & Cats Home this year have found loving homes for 257 animals, giving each of them a new lease on life.
Each adoption is a tale of transformation finding these loyal companions their forever homes.
A huge thank you to everyone who helped us to collect lots of goodies for the Dogs and Cats over the past couple of months.
Our residents had great fun in making up and wrapping these shoeboxes ready for us to deliver. Once ready, we took some residents on an outing in our minibus to The Cotswolds Dogs & Cats Home to drop off our wonderful shoeboxes and pop them under their Christmas tree.
Of course we couldn’t go without saying a little hello to some very cute furry friends!
Mrs. Claus visits Alcester Care home
There was huge excitement at Cherry Trees Care Home as Mrs. Claus came by to visit the residents ahead of her husband’s big night delivering presents on Christmas Eve.
Staff and residents at Barchester’s Cherry Trees care home in Alcester had a wonderful time chatting with Mrs. Claus all about her home in the North Pole.
General Manager, Debbie Osborne said: “We had the best time with Mrs. Claus, she is such a joy spreading festive cheer through our home."
Barb Hulbert, resident at Cherry Trees said: “What a lovely surprise, you were so good to me when I was a little girl, thank you!”
We look forward to seeing Mrs. Claus again next year and from everyone here at Cherry Trees, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!
Alcester Christmas Light Switch On
Our residents here at Cherry Trees braved the rain and enjoyed a wonderful evening supporting Alcester Bunting and Lighting for Alcester’s Christmas light switch on.
Our residents wrapped up warm ready to officially begin our Countdown to Christmas!!
We enjoyed a lovely performance from Alcester’s Silver Band accompanied by hundreds of voices from the Church.
The wonderful 1st Alcester Squirrels did a splendid job at switching on the lights as we counted down with members from our community to see the most magical array of lights beautifully presented throughout our town.
Margaret said, ‘it brings back many happy memories of the years we spent Christmas at home’, and Joe’s hands didn’t stop clapping. We always feel so lucky to be a part of such a fabulous community at Christmas time.
