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
Residents have 'Holi' fun
Barchester’s Crabwall Hall care home, in Chester celebrated the Hindu festival of Holi, which takes place on March 8th.
Holi is a fun-packed festival that marks the end of winter and the start of spring, it focuses on love and new life. Holi celebrates the Hindu god Krishna and the legend of Holika and Prahlad. One of the messier festivals, Holi is also known as the festival of colours and is celebrated by the throwing of colourful powder paint and coloured water along with singing and dancing.
Virtual Book Club
We had a lovely time joining Mark Piesing for an exciting virtual event to discuss his book ‘N-4 Down: The Hunt for The Arctic Airship Italia’.
Our residents were thrilled to find out more about the book and the fascinating story of the world-famous exploring airship Italia, returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928. The airship was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history.
Historic Royal Palaces
Our residents were treated to a special virtual sensory storytelling session. Together with Art Historian Jon Sleigh and the Historic Royal Palaces community team, we explored several royal palaces through the theme of food, dining and celebration!
We enjoyed a fantastic taste-a-long experience from the comfort of our home, from Tudor treats to Stuart sweets. A lovely time was had by all.
Pancake Day
What a lovely pancake day lunch we had today with our resident Anne & daughter Leslie, and of course our amazing volunteer Eileen. We all enjoyed some delicious pancakes at The Oak Tree pub, which we all agree we would highly recommend!
Monthly Baking Club at Crabwall Hall
There's no better way to spend an spending an afternoon than baking! We all loved making the best British teatime treat the JAM TART. The best bit of course is eating it when it's nice & warm. We are already looking forward to our next baking afternoon in March.
Century celebrations at Crabwall
Celebrations have been in full swing at Crabwall Hall, as one of its residents reached his centenary in style. Fred Morgan was joined by staff, relatives and friends as he celebrated by having a 100th birthday party at Crabwall Hall, everyone got to enjoy a special birthday cake made by the home’s chef Ian Preston.
Fred was born in Shropshire and started farming at the age of 14 on his father’s farm. He was married to Olive for 72 years and has 2 children, son John and daughter Anne before coming to Crabwall Hall, where he is enjoying a new chapter of his life.
