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
Memory Lane
Jill, Mary, Gerald & Margaret all enjoyed a leisurely morning at Bell Plantation, enjoying coffee & cake in the conservatory. Although they had never been to the bell plantation, it is one of Jill’s favourite places and, during our conversations, Jill enlightened us with stories of her time in parliament.
Community Engagement
Residents were thrilled when a student from Woodland View Primary School delivered letters to them as part of the Collingtree and Loneliness Awareness Week. This is in conjunction with The Wooden Walls Café, which is a free tea & coffee morning, held every month in the Wooden Walls pub.
The residents are looking forward to visiting the café and also replying to the students' letters. Hopefully this is the beginning of a friendship between the elderly and the younger generation.
Flower arranging competition
Margaret, Joan and Mary went foraging for foliage in our Memory Lane community garden. Then they took part in the Barchester Life Enrichment online masterclass, hosted by Blooming Haus. Residents in the Collingtree Park dementia community were very creative in their flower arranging, making small individual arrangements and one larger one for the Barchester inter-home flower arranging competition.
Gardening Club Outing
Maureen, Isobelle, Anna and Joan, from the Collingtree Park residents’ gardening club, enjoyed a trip to the Hope Centre allotments. This local charity supports people who are homeless or living in poverty and we were met by Joe who manages the allotment project. He kindly showed us around, including an area which will become a sensory garden. We handed over some seedlings we have been growing at Collingtree Park for the Hope Centre to replant and nurture until the green beans are ready for eating.
A pub lunch and a sensory garden
We took Margaret, Peter, Doris and Graham for lunch at ‘The Grange’ pub where we were looked after by the Manager. Adele. We had a delicious lunch and Doris enjoyed a beer. Afterwards we met some people from Peak Empower, a local charity that kindly donated gift packs of lovely toiletries to residents at Collingtree Park. A big THANK YOU to them for welcoming us to their new sensory garden at Fernie Fields, in Moulton, where we enjoyed seeing and smelling the planting. To finish our day out we stopped at Abington Park for an ice-cream on the way home. A perfect end to a perfect day!
Retail therapy at Rushden Lakes
Eileen and Maureen were very excited to go on a shopping trip to Rushden Lakes, to treat themselves to some new clothes. They had a break for a bite to eat, and then did some more shopping before returning to Collingtree Park in the minibus. They loved their girls’ day out and retail therapy.
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.
