Activities at Collingtree Park Care Home
Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as they can, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join in with activities and events as often as they can.
Lucia Pivetta
Hello, my name is Lucia and I'm one of the Activities Coordinators here at Collingtree Park care home. My role is to enrich the lives of our residents by providing stimulating and person-centred activities. We offer something for everyone, including arts and crafts, games and live entertainment including visits to places of interest in the local area. I love to provide one-to-one time and sensory activities with residents who need a little more support.
Getting to know our residents better is so important, and through regular meetings with family and friends I can gain a greater understanding of their loved ones' interests and life prior to joining the Collingtree Park community.
We are always open to new ideas. If you would like to get involved in any of our Life Enrichment activities or have a skill, or project you'd like to share with our residents, please click here to contact the activities team direct. New entertainers and community links are always welcome.
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 Collingtree Park Care Home
Happy Birthday 'Fabulous Freda'
Our second birthday girl today was the fabulous Freda, who was joined in the sunny Collingtree Park gardens by her loved ones and presented with her freshly baked celebration cake by Chef Jennifer.
Happy birthday from everyone at Collingtree Park, we hope you enjoyed your special day.
Happy Birthday 'Beautiful Betty'
Please join us in saying Happy Birthday to the beautiful Betty who enjoyed tea, cake and a selection of sing-a-long songs with her fellow residents and staff. Betty loved watching everyone dancing saying... "All this fuss is nothing to do with me!"
We hope you've had the happiest of birthday's Betty.
CQC Award Collingtree Park 'GOOD'
We've been celebrating our CQC success following a recent Care Quality Commission inspection, we received an overall ‘Good’ rating after being praised for operating a safe, effective, responsive and well-led service.
The CQC published its report in July and rated the home, run by Barchester Healthcare, as ‘Good’ overall. https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-125855782
The report stated that residents at the home received good quality person-centred care and were supported by kind, caring staff who helped them live as independently as possible. A staff member commented: “We use a whole team approach which means staff are flexibly deployed across the home, everyone is fully trained and staff help each other out.
Staff gathered together in the homes beautiful gardens to party, and celebrated with FREE pizza courtesy of their friends at Tops Pizza Northampton.
Residents reported that they were very happy living at the home, comments included: “There are lots of choices, we can make our own decisions and keep our independence."
Relatives were very complimentary about the home and the staff, comments included: “The staff are fantastic, they will do anything for my relative and they are very good at telling me what is happening.” Another relative said: “We are very happy with the service, there are lots of opportunities for feedback.”
Rosalyn James, General Manager at Collingtree Park Care Home said: “We are absolutely thrilled that Collingtree Park has been rated ‘Good’ following the CQC’s most recent inspection.
It is fantastic to have the hard work and dedication of everyone here recognised, we have a wonderful team here and I am incredibly proud of each and every one of them.”
Regional Summer Party
What an amazing day!
Staff and residents from Collingtree Park joined a convoy of Barchester minibuses bringing residents, family members and friends together at Chacombe Park Care Home - Barchester Healthcare in Oxfordshire to enjoy their first Regional Community BBQ held in the home’s grounds on Tuesday 30th July, 2024.
The event; brainchild of Hannah Boscott, Divisional Activities Lead required military precision to organise. With activity, hospitality and maintenance teams working together from a total of 9 Barchester care homes across the Central division.
Each care home had their particular provision to bring, from the well-stocked Tiki bar to the various garden games, delicious side dishes, puddings and entertainers.
Guests included friends and family to the residents and staff from each home. Everyone enjoyed a morning of poetry reading, mingling with residents from other homes, playing games with children and even soaking some senior members of the team in the stocks!
For lunch, there were a selection of cocktails, a BBQ and the obligatory Ice Cream van to keep everyone nice and cool in the summer sun. After lunch, everyone swung and sang out to local Saxophonist Alan Hook.
Collingtree Park Resident Ambassadors; Pam and Nannette were over the moon and so pleased with the entire day. Pam said "It was wonderful to meet everyone from the other homes, everyone was so kind and helpful".
Shopping and Costa Coffee
Who doesn't love a trip to the shops especially when there's time for a Costa Coffee and good old chat. These lovely ladies had a great time browsing the aisles and deciding on what to buy for this week’s baking club.
Monday Moves
Our Monday morning exercise class with Anya from Gfitness certainly got us all moving!
With high impact music to coordinate the group, Anya had us all concentrating on our upper arm strength and mobility, using brightly coloured flexible foam noodles we welcomed the new day with plenty of waves, whooping and hollering!
Upcoming events
Macmillan Coffee Morning
We are inviting friends, families and members of the local community to join our residents and staff for a Coffee morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.
Wear It Pink Day - All Welcome
Join us 'Wear it Pink' on 18th October as we raise funds for Breast Cancer Awareness. They'll be plenty of pink cakes and buns on offer - All Welcome!
Newsletter Summer Edition 2
Please take at look at our latest news from in and around Collingtree Park care home.
Key Workers - Take a Break!
If you are part of the emergency services or a community healthcare professional in need of a break, drop in at any time complimentary refreshments and a warm welcome await you.
Community Church Service
Join our Monthly Church Service on the first Wednesday of each month at 10.30am courtesy of Vicar James from Church of St Columba, Collingtree, Northampton.
