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
Alcester Street Party
Residents celebrated the coronation of King Charles III by attending the community street party in Alcester.
They enjoyed a picnic lunch prepared by the kitchen team and were able to spend all afternoon soaking up the atmosphere. They enjoyed an ice cream while watching the parade and a performance by the White Hart Morris Men.
At Cherry Trees we do everything we can to make sure our residents are able to continue to take part in community events and activities.
Coronation talk
Across our services Residents had a wonderful time participating in an interactive virtual talk with Pippa Catterall, Professor of History and Policy at the University of Westminster, where we delved into the rich history of coronations.
During the talk, we explored fascinating topics such as the coronation chair, the crown, and other significant aspects related to King Charles' upcoming coronation. Our residents were thrilled to have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the memoirs of past coronations from 1937 and 1953, as well as learning about the coronation oath and what to expect from the ceremony, including the music, guests, and pageantry.
Making Wishes Come True
Our resident, Jean, made a wish on our wish tree for someone to come and play the piano in our lounge so we arranged for Charles Matthews of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire to come and perform for us. Our residents were treated to an afternoon of beautiful, classical music. Jean said she thought it was ‘magical.’
We love making our residents’ wishes come true at Cherry Trees and we invite all our residents and their families to make use of our wish tree so that we can make more magical moments in the future.
Tickled Pink Theatre Show
Travelling theatre company, Tickled Pink came to Cherry Trees to perform their spring show ‘Fit for a King’. It was a lovely afternoon of singing and dancing and residents thoroughly enjoyed the performance. We are looking forward to welcoming Tickled Pink back again for their Autumn and Christmas shows later in the year.
World Scrabble Day
Cherry Trees residents celebrated World Scrabble Day with a Scrabble Tournament in our café. It was a great morning and although it got competitive at times and we had to break out the dictionary, everyone had a lot of fun.
Cherry Trees U3A Group Enjoy Poetry Reading
Our residents have been asking for some different sorts of activities and so we decided to set up a University of the Third Age Group which will meet monthly and where we will have speakers come and talk about a variety of different topics. This month we enjoyed a very interesting talk from Poet, Dennis East. Dennis entertained us with some stories about his life and read us some of his poetry, which is autobiographical in the style of Pam Ayres. One resident, Marjorie said ‘it was so funny. I’ve had a lovely afternoon.’
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.