Activities at Cherry Trees Care Home
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’
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 Cherry Trees Care Home
McVitie’s and NAPA Biscuit Decorating Contest
Our residents had great fun decorating biscuits for the McVitie’s and Napa competitions. The challenge was to pick a theme to decorate the biscuits and take some pictures and email them in for a chance of winning an afternoon tea worth £1000!
We choose garden as our theme as we love our gardens here at Cherry Trees and there was plenty of creative ideas we could pick from that. We had so much fun, and not too many biscuits were eaten "honest".
Cherry Trees Irish Summer Fete
On the 22nd August, 2020 we had a fantastic time at Cherry Trees with our amazing Irish fete. Unfortunately, due to the weather we had the fete inside, but this didn’t dampen any spirits. First of all I would like to thank all the staff and residents who attended in person, all our wonderful volunteers and all the support we’ve had from everyone from our online community which in these weird times is so important.
Another big thank you goes to the fantastic growers at the Bidford allotments who helped us stock our Cherry Trees Growers Market with lots of lovely veg! The rest of the veg was supplied from our own garden which is maintain by the home as a whole. We are super lucky here at Cherry Trees to have such an amazing garden and such helpful local gardeners. We also had a lovely crafters corner selling handmade cards donated to us by a wonderful member of the public and team.
Our resident had so much fun today they got to enjoy a glass of baileys and some amazing Irish snacks from the Cherry Trees Arms’ Irish Bar (the cakes were amazing!!). The residents also enjoyed lots of games and had a fantastic sing song with our staff. We have some amazing singers at Cherry Trees, so Britain’s Got Talent better watch out.
We had a trot by from the beautiful Bubbles and George horses, smiles all round. All in all, it was a truly amazing day and everyone had so much fun. Just shows that nothing can stop the residents and staff at Cherry Trees for having a fantastic time!
Virtual Dog Show
We held our first ever virtual pet show to celebrate National Dog Day. Our residents had an amazing time looking though all the pictures and reminiscing about their own pets.
We had entries from the community, staff and their families, relatives and friends of our residents, who were all eager to show off their pets.
This event was so popular we are already being asked to hold it again by both residents and staff. We had 4 winners in the end.
Book Lovers Day
Today we celebrated Book Lovers day, we aimed the day around the book "Little ride riding hood". There was 5 sensory inputs in the all-day activity; smell, sight, touch, taste, and hearing. We baked some chocolate chip cupcakes and sliced up some fruit in the morning for the picnic (as in the story) then in the afternoon the residents enjoyed tucking into their food while listening to the "little red riding hood" story on audio in the library of the home with a display of other books and old magazines and newspapers which they enjoyed looking at.
Spanish themed day
Today our destination is Spain! We all got our party clothes on and flowers in our hair and enjoyed a Spanish party in the Cherry Trees garden with Spanish music, tapas and décor. Our residents enjoyed tasting the various spicy cold meats, olives and cheese selection. The strong flavours and textures were ‘interesting’ as one resident mentioned whilst trying a stuffed olive!
Friendship Day
What an enjoyable day! Everyone got involved in paper chain making, with coloured paper to represent their function within the home; green for carers, blue for nurses, red for residents, orange for management team etc. Many wrote a little message or quote on their loop to express their thoughts on the Cherry Trees friends they have made. The chains decorated our court yard whilst we sat together for afternoon and ice cream. Earlier in the day the residents handmade friendship bracelets for one another and staff.
