Activities at Collingtree Park Care Home

As the Autumn nights start drawing in, our residents were inspired to capture the seasonal change, and created this masterpiece which Barbara titled "Autumn Nights". We spoke about the changing colours of the sky and the trees, and that wonderful sound when your feet crunch fallen leaves on a crisp Autumn day.

Mick said he worries about the birds in Autumn; but thankfully ours were decorated with lovely, shiny feathers to protect them from the bitter cold! We love our new picture, which will be displayed on Daisy Lane for our visitors to see too.

Barbara, Pam, Avis (and Bella the cat!) enjoyed some crisp Autumn air in our garden, which recently won "Garden of the Year" at the Barchester Care Awards.

Pam said, "We are so lucky to have Andy, (the gardener), he spends so much time making this look lovely - and even makes sure the birds are fed! He does a wonderful job and definitely deserved gardener of the year." If you're visiting our care home, be sure to have a look at our wonderful garden before the Winter draws in.

Who doesn't love cheese and wine on a Friday night? We spent the most lovely evening with our residents, enjoying good company and a glass of wine whilst sampling a variety of cheeses. Eileen said "We must keep this in the diary as a regular event, it's so good to come together in the evening, I really enjoyed this".

Today we had the pleasure of attending the fortnightly 'Ray of Light' Dementia Friendly café hosted by resident and founding member; Pamela Wareham at King Richard Court in East Hunsbury.

Pamela invited General Manager, Nikki Allen to provide her guests with an update on Collingtree Park Care Home - Barchester Healthcare and the various community events open to everyone living at King Richard Court.

Nikki, joined by our Daisy Lane community Senior, Marina Vulc gave the group a brief overview of the care provision at Collingtree Park and outline of our facilities and dementia friendly activities; from monthly café to regular exercise classes, entertainers and our complimentary ‘Don't Dine Alone’ experiences.

The Q&A session was very informative for all parties. We look forward to the group members visiting our home in the not too distant future to spend time with the residents and extend each other’s friendship group.

We'd like to thank you again Pamela for welcoming us into your home, and send thank you's to all the wonderful people we met and spoke to within your Ray of Light group. We hope you all enjoyed chef's 'wear it pink' cake creation and hope to share coffee and cake with you again very soon.

Our residents had a fabulous morning drawing and calling for Bingo, and even won a few prizes! Our overall winner was Maureen, drawing a line and full house in the same match! Well done to Mavis and Barbara for calling the numbers: you two were 'top of the shop' today.

What a fabulous day we had for #WearItPink Breast Cancer Awareness Residents enjoyed an afternoon tea courtesy of the activities team, and fabulous pink cupcakes from the kitchen. Graham, Ash, Pam and Iris all thoroughly enjoyed having a chin-wag and a cake. Graham said he felt 'very lucky to be allowed to spend his afternoon with so many lovely women", Iris said he was spoilt for choice!