Activities at Crabwall Hall Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Jacqui Cameron
We all know that keeping active is important. We have created a wonderful culture within the home and we work together to give residents the best possible experience. We are here to ensure that residents enjoy an environment that is both stimulating and socially active. We ensure the team knows each residents' preferences, so that we can deliver a person-centered program of events and activities. Essential to our homely feel is the strong relationships of trust we build with residents and their families and friends. The home also has its very own minibus for our numerous outings for coffee and shopping, which residents love.
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 Crabwall Hall Care Home
Bread Week
To celebrate National Bread Week, Jacqui, our activities lead, got together with some of our lovely ladies to bake bread.
We made all different types of one of the nation's favourite foods. From French sticks to cobs, we made them all. Afterwards, when they came out of the oven, we tried them with lots of lovely butter. Karen, Betty, Bea and Barbara were very impressed with their bread.
All I can say is Paul Hollywood, you have competition. With what's left over, we serve them for tea with our chef's wonderful homemade soup.
Therapy Dog Visit
Every Friday our residents and staff all look forward to seeing Ned. Ned is a therapy dog who comes with his lovely owner, Brenda. They both bring so much joy into our home. Everybody's faces light up when they see them, especially the residents who tend to stay in their rooms. Ned is a well-known superstar in these parts.
He's been on the local news about the great work Therapy Dogs bring to the local community, especially Care Homes, The Hospice of the Good Shepherd and the Countess of Chester Hospital, just to name a few. Brenda and Ned are both going to Crufts again next month.
Last year he won a prize which was no surprise to us all. He definitely is our very own super star. We all love him so much, even Jacqui, our activities lead who is scared of any animals. And we would also like to say a big thank you to Brenda and Ned for taking your time to come and see us. The job you both do is fantastic.
Gaynor turns 100!
Sunday at Crabwall Hall was the beautiful Gaynor's 100th birthday. Gaynor was thrilled to bits to celebrate this big occasion with her family.
She had such a lovely day and was overwhelmed with all her cards and presents. We love celebrating everyone's special occasions as they mean so much to us all.
Children in Need Celebrations
On Friday we had a lovely day... supporting Children In Need!
BBC Children in Need believes that every child should have the chance to thrive and be the best they can be.
For this to happen, every child should have someone they can turn to for help or support when they need to overcome the challenges they face, and we were happy to support in raising money throughout the day, thanks to all who donated!
Zoo 2 U
We are lucky at Crabwall to have some amazing activities visiting.
Last week was no different as we had the fabulous Zoo2U come along with some really interesting animals!
Our residents loved holding or stroking all of them, such a lovely afternoon!
Christmas Songs
So last week we had a visit from passion for learning children.
They came with some beautiful flowers in hand painted pots for our lounge and around our home.
The children sang Christmas songs, read books and also made book marks, this made our day.
Thank you so much for coming we look forward to you coming again after Christmas!
