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
Micro Gardening Cress
Our Memory Lane residents have been exploring the amazing fast growing properties of 'cress'. They spent time making soil containers from old plastic bottles and decorating them as faces before planting a layer of cress seeds. The group decided to place the heads on our balcony to water and enjoy watching them grow. Over the next few days the seeds grew into a luscious head of green cress hair giving them a real sense of achievement and a good giggle.
Mindfulness Art Books
One of our residents; Rosina has been spending her time skilfully colouring these fabulous ‘mindfulness’ books. We think she's that good we have created an art portfolio for her work. We showed her family during a garden visit, and they were very impressed and pleased how well Rosina has settled into her new home at Cherry Trees. Rosina joins in with most of the activities that take place in the home, and is certainly continuing an enriched life with us.
Wimbledon at Cherry Trees
We all had fun watching old Wimbledon matches and playing our own game of 'balloon tennis' before settling down to enjoy fresh strawberries and cream.
Flower Arranging and Show
Our residents enjoyed the blooms within the grounds of Cherry Trees care home by staging their own flower show, as others have been cancelled due to the pandemic.
We had a good look around our gardens and pick various flowers. As the weather wasn’t good we came inside and the lovely Gemma, a nurse on Memory Lane took time to help the group create beautiful flower arrangements for display. Gemma went through each type of flower explaining the variety which our residents enjoyed very much. We've decided to make it a regular event; it’s now on the activities calendar for every 2nd month of the year.
National Chocolate Day
The celebrations for National Chocolate Day started with our residents making chocolate muffins, while they cooked we had a cuppa and a little quiz. Chef incorporated a chocolate fountain into the days menu including crepes. The chocolate muffins went on the tea trolley in the morning and afternoon for all to enjoy.
Outdoor Activities
Our residents enjoyed some fun in the fun when our weekly arts & craft session moved outside to the sun-trap courtyard. Several residents enjoyed decorating stones for #Alcesterstones while others just relaxed in the beautiful weather, chilling in the garden room and on sun-drenched terrace.
