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.
Read our brochure
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
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.
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.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
