Activities at Crandon Springs 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.
Katherine Cork
Hello, my name is Kath and I’m the Activities Assistant here at Crandon Springs.
As part of the Activities and lifestyle enrichment team, I help in organising our daily activities, ensuring that all of our residents have a variety of activities to choose from each day. I love enriching our residents’ lives by providing meaningful and engaging activities and, having been both a teacher and care assistant in the past, have a wealth of experience behind me. You'll rarely find me without a smile and I'm very family orientated, and I love how both the residents' and colleagues Crandon Springs feel like a second family to me!
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 Crandon Springs Care Home
Bird House Decorating
What a wonderful afternoon was had by some of our lovely ladies here at Crandon Springs recently...
With spring almost 'sprung', our residents enjoyed getting their creative juices flowing, as they decorated some lovely little bird boxes to go out into the Crandon Springs garden.
The ladies concentrated hard as they added some bright colours to these little bird dwellings.
Let's hope our new feathered friends enjoy their efforts as much as the residents enjoyed painting them.
Well done everyone!
What's your favourite bird?
Sporting Memories Foundation
Here at Crandon Springs our team have recently joined a meeting with Sporting Memories Foundation to under more about how the scheme can benefit our residents.
Sporting Memories Foundation for 10 years have been using the power of remembering and talking about sport – along with physical exercise – to tackle dementia, depression and loneliness. They are dedicated to bringing together older adults.
Sporting Memories offer group or 1-2-1 based activities for our residents to enjoy either with other residents or by involving family and friends.
There are over 120 Sporting Memories Clubs across Scotland, Wales and England. The supportive, welcoming and structured sessions they offer are proven to help build cognitive resilience for those living with dementia. Mental and physical well-being increases too.
We look forward to working in partnership with Sporting Memories Foundation.
A special birthday
Residents and colleagues at Crandon Springs' Care Home in Wells have been celebrating a fellow residents special birthday.
Gwyneth was one of Crandon Springs first residents and she has recently celebrated her 95th birthday with us.
Our birthday girl was present with a lovely bouquet of flowers and card signed by all the residents and colleagues at the home. Our activities Co-Ordinator, Tracey did an educational talk on the history of Gwyneth's birth date - including information on the solar eclipse the day she was born!
Christmas Quiz
Barchester’s Crandon Springs, from Wells, got into the Christmas spirit by joining a virtual afternoon of festivities along with the staff and residents at over seventy Barchester care homes across the south of England, Jersey and the Isle of Wight.
Crandon Springs' staff and residents pulled out all the stops by dressing up in their glittery Christmas best to link up with all the other care homes in the south of the country for a whole host of different fun activities culminating in the Barchester Big Quiz of the Year. When they weren’t quizzing, residents enjoyed a feast of festive foods prepared by the home’s chef, Stuart.
General Manager, Natalie, said: “We’ve all had a challenging year so we wanted to ensure the Christmas celebrations for our residents and staff were an extra special treat. ‘Meeting up’ with the other homes virtually has given them all such a boost. We’ve all had so much fun letting our hair down, everyone really enjoyed the afternoon.”
Festive Music Therapy
Here at Crandon Springs we are extremely fortunate to have Michael, our music therapist join us every week for our residents living with dementia.
Today Michael has focused our session on infamous Christmas carols and songs. As our video shows, our residents have had a fantastic time.
Thank you colleagues!
This morning at Crandon Springs our residents have been handing out gifts for our colleagues here. In a way of saying thank you for their dedication and hard work throughout the year our colleagues are receiving a selection of gift cards, chocolates and fizz!
Follow our Facebook page for more festive celebrations over the next week!
Upcoming events
Cuppa with a Coppa
Join us for our cuppa with a copper event & ask PCSO Leann Chinnock any community questions, whilst enjoying a nice cuppa.
Summer Garden Party!
Please join us for a fun day, full of live entertainment, very special visitors the Quarter Pint Ponies and plenty of homemade food and refreshments!
