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
Summer Sports Day!
With the excitement of the Paris Olympics in the air at Crandon Springs and the sun well and truly onside, Residents and staff at Crandon Springs laced up their trainers and warmed-up for the annual sports day!
With a range of activities set out for both residents and staff, teams had some friendly competition and battled it out to be crowned sporting champions by Deputy General Manager Sophie Hoskins, before being treated to a winner’s buffet of fresh sandwiches, home-made cakes, along with fresh juice and Pimms.
Deputy General Manager Sophie Hoskins said: “We always encourage our residents to keep active. With summer finally making a welcome appearance, we had a great opportunity to move our activities outside to make the most of the weather. Our residents and their guests really enjoyed today and it was lovely to see so many of them getting involved. It reminded all of us of when we were kids at school!”
Eventual winner and taking the gold medal was Addie, a resident at Crandon Springs, who said “I am quite shocked that I won! I am quite competitive but that’s usually when I play scrabble with friends and family, not so much with sports!”. Fellow Resident and the home’s Resident Ambassador, Christine added, “it was such a fun afternoon, we were all inspired by the Olympics I think as there was some good-humoured competition between us all!
If you would like to know more about life here at Crandon Springs, or to book a viewing, please call our friendly team on:
01749 685 180
Watercolour Wonders!
Following on from the success of last week's still life painting workshop, Crandon Springs residents enjoyed another workshop by welcoming in Andrew Carmody to assist with a watercolour workshop!
The 'classroom' was quickly filled as they all went to work and yet again, the results were superb! They are such a creative bunch and everyone thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon.
If you would like to know more about life here at Crandon Springs, or to book a viewing, please call our friendly team on:
01749 685 180.
Cake with a view!
Residents of Crandon Springs enjoyed a trip out to the picturesque Middlewick Farm Shop and Cafe to enjoy a coffee and some delicious cake, whilst reminiscing over some of their favourite memories.
One of the residents, Joy, spent most of her life in the local area and had plenty of stories to tell, whilst Barbara had visited the cafe before as she often took long walks around the immediate countryside.
If you would like to know more about life here at Crandon Springs, or to book a viewing, please call our friendly team on:
01749 685 180.
Summer Garden Party!
What a fantastic day, the weather was onside and our wonderful residents and families had a great time meeting mini shetland ponies, a delicious BBQ and pizza buffet, as well as enjoying a song and dance with local musician Barrie Peck in the afternoon.
Everyone had such a good time and it was great to see families across the generations all having a great time. Please take a minute to enjoy some of the photos of the day and share for families and friends to enjoy.
A massive thanks to all of the incredibly hard working team here, from the never ending efforts if the care staff who made sure that everyone was able to get involved and had all the support needed, the kitchen team who provide such delicious and high quality meals on a daily basis but on top of that also provided an additional BBQ and pizza buffet for the day, the housekeeping team who kept the home looking fantastic and our activities and admin team who's hard work ensured that the day ran smoothly. Thank you everyone, it wouldn't have been a success without all of your efforts.
Day-trippers!
Some of our residents here at Crandon Springs enjoyed a trip out on our mini bus this week, stopping at Brownes Garden Centre and Coffee shop on the way back home.
Sue and Barbara particularly enjoyed seeing some of the local scenery and choosing some new flowers for the raised beds in the garden, before stopping for a cup of tea and some delicious home-made cake.
Our activity co-ordinators, Emily and Kath, have a key role in ensuring that there are a variety of life enriching activities every single day at Crandon Springs. These can range from physical exercises and arts and crafts, through to day trips and interactive events. The hard-working duo bring a lot of variation and carefully thought out ideas to life in the activities that they organise for the residents and judging by the smiles on show, this was another success!
If you would like to know more about life here at Crandon Springs, or to book a viewing, please call our friendly team on:
01749 685 180.
Picture Perfect!
Picture Perfect!
Today Activities coordinator Emily and a group of highly talented Crandon Springs residents decided to spend an afternoon running a still life painting workshop!
Taking a few cuttings from the garden, the group set about painting their masterpieces with supreme care and attention, and the results were amazing!
Here are a selection of them for you to enjoy as much as we have. Once they’re dry, we’ll have to get them in some frames and put them on show for everyone to see.
If you would like to know more about life here at Crandon Springs, or to book a viewing, please call our friendly team on:
01749 685 180.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Counting down the days to Christmas with a fun filled month ahead and we extend a warm invitation for you to join us as we get into the festive spirit. Merry Christmas!
Countdown to Christmas
Counting down the days to Christmas with a fun filled month ahead and we extend a warm invitation for you to join us as we get into the festive spirit. Merry Christmas!
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
