Activities at Crabwall Hall Care Home
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.
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 Crabwall Hall Care Home
Blooming Haus
We were delighted to join Blooming Haus’s Christmas Wreath Making Masterclass, where Master Florist, Michal and his business partner - Michael showed us the best method to create beautiful festive wreaths.
Following the tips and ideas learnt during the amazing virtual experience, we were happy to put our skills to a test and to enter the #BarchesterChristmasWreaths competition.
We all had a wonderful time creating our festive wreath/s.
Thank you @bloominghaus for helping our residents flow into the true spirit of Noel.
World Vegan Day
This year for World Vegan Day, our Activity Co-ordinator Carolyn Minchew prepared two delicious vegan dishes for our residents to try. First she made a borlotti bean pate which was made of borlotti beans, lemon juice, garlic, vegan cream cheese and fresh dill. Then three types of hummus. Sweet chilli, plain and balsamic vinegar flavoured.
These dishes are made up of chick peas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic. Half a dozen residents enjoyed watching the dishes been made in Carolyn’s food processor, and then taste them all on flavoured crackers. The dishes went down a storm with every residents saying how tasty they were.
English National Ballet
We celebrated Remembrance Day with English National Ballet Associate Dance Artist, Richard Bermange, who led a creative dance workshop for our residents followed by a special extract of Akram Khan’s work Dust, premiered in 2014 as part of ENB’s Lest We Forget programme, commemorating the First World War.
ENB company dancers, Erina Takahashi and James Streeter performed the extract and provided some insight into this moving work.
Our residents had a wonderful time as they listened, danced and were able to singalong to famous war time music performed by ENB Associate Musician, Matt Hartley-Stevens.
Month of memories
The Activity team at Crabwall Hall care home in Mollington, Chester recently launched “Month of Memories” to run throughout October. The idea was to combine the wonderfully interesting, historical memories of their residents, with the modern way of sharing, a video message on the social media platform of Facebook.
All Barchester homes have their own Facebook page and regular stories are shared each week. For the month of October residents at Crabwall Hall were invited to make a short video message of a special memory they have, that they thought may be interesting to younger generations.
Carolyn Minchew, Head of Activities at Crabwall Hall said: “One of the most pleasurable parts of my job is listening to our residents’ wonderful stories of their lives at home and work, with family and their personal experience of WWII. Today we share all aspects of our lives via social media, and I thought it would be a great idea to share these fascinating accounts by way of short video messages. The videos reached more than 1500 people over the month which was wonderful”
Vegetarian for life demo
We had a lovely time joining Chef Alex Connell from Vegetarian for Life for a Halloween-inspired virtual cooking demo.
Alex demonstrated how to prepare a few themed dishes, such as root vegetable tagine, roasted butternut squash mac-n-cheese, chocolate pots with piped biscuits and flapjacks.
Our residents were delighted to be a part of this lovely virtual culinary session by tasting the vegetarian dishes from the comfort of our home.
Movie night
Residents at Crabwall Manor enjoy their regular and popular movie nights in the homes comfy lounge. Each month the homes is re-arranged to resemble a movie theatre, with closed curtains and popcorn and wine served as they settled to watch their chosen film, this month it was blockbuster “Titanic”. Many of the residents watching knew the story of the fatal Atlantic maiden voyage, but few had ever seen the film.
It was a lovely evening and thoroughly enjoyed by all.
