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.
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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
Keeping Residents connected during the colder months
Residents are overjoyed at Crabwall Hall care home in Mollington near Chester as Barchester Healthcare has implemented a visiting suite pod for residents to continue to spend time with their loved ones for the autumn and winter seasons in addition to the outdoor visiting that has been on offer for those able for many months.
Balancing resident wellbeing and safety is at the forefront of Barchester Healthcare’s thinking and they understand how important it is for residents and their family and friends to be able to spend time together in the safest way possible.
There has been much careful planning and preparation for this moment by Barchester Healthcare, who run Crabwall Hall care home. It was welcome news for their residents and family and friends as we enter the colder season meaning catch-ups can continue to take place.
Mayor switches on Christmas lights
Barchester’s Crabwall Hall care home in Mollington nr Chester got into the Christmas spirit early by receiving The Lord Mayor of Chester to officially switch on the extra special Christmas lights on Thursday 3rd December.
Crabwall Hall’s Christmas lights switch on was a truly wonderful event as Residents and staff wrapped up on the winter evening sipping delicious hot chocolate in the courtyard as the beautiful lights were switched on by Lord Mayor, Mark Williams.
The Virtual Nutcracker
Resident Audrey Roberts was overjoyed to watch a live zoom link with the National Ballet Philharmonic Orchestra this week. Residents are feeling connected to the World by being present and attending many events in this way. Barchester care homes have organised a program of live link ups for the festive season enabling us all to deliver a lively life enrichment program.
Audrey’s friend Pam had only just told us that The Nutcracker was one of her favourite ballets and that Audrey did a lot of ballet in her teens. Audrey’s dance teacher was so impressed with her student that she recommended she apply to a National Ballet company that was travelling over to the USA to perform over there. However, this was just as WWII was breaking and Audrey’s father wanted to keep his daughter safe in the UK with him.
As Audrey was watching the performance memories of her beautiful ballet dresses, tutus, and walking ‘en pointe’ came flooding back to her, and the music from The Nutcracker took her back to her dancing days when she said ‘I used to dance all the time’
Personalised Christmas Wreaths for Residents
We asked families to create wreaths for resident's doors and send them in. Residents are delighted with their personalised wreaths
Photos 1 is resident Nance Blease with the wreath her niece Kathleen has made for her. Nance 100 ihad her 100th birthday October and is a very proud Welsh lady. Niece Kathleen incorporated leeks, daffodils and the welsh flag, as well as a school photo of Nance taken in 1932.
Photo 2 is resident Muriel Mickle with her wreath made by daughters Alison and Fiona. Muriel was in the wrens and has many fascinating stories of her time on the high seas. She will tell you how much she enjoyed her service and how ‘the gin flowed like water’
Pen-pal joy for Residents
Residents at Crabwall Hall Care Home in Chester recently enjoyed exchanging letters from Queens School in Chester, who treated the residents to letters about their likes and hobbies, what they are doing at school and what siblings and pets they have. Residents at the home enjoyed reading the beautifully hand written letters and replying to the girls in their own hand and it meant such a lot as visitors are currently not able to visit the home at this time.
Children in Need
Our residents love to see the visiting grandchildren to Crabwall Hall. Whether it is their own family or that of another resident, to see and hear the children is comforting, exciting and joyful all the same. At the moment, and as has been the case for virtually the whole of this year, the home has been seriously lacking in the sound of children playing. So, when asked if they wanted to take part in Children in Need Day, some were happy to do so.
Many of the Crabwall Hall team dressed in their best Pudsey tee shirts, jumpers and head gear and were joined by residents Dot and Audrey. Dot has always got involved in the fund raising day and was keen to put her Pudsey jumper on.
