Activities at Crandon Springs Care Home

On the 1st of October our residents have been enjoying a social afternoon in the cafe playing cards. After a meeting with our life enrichment team, our residents and colleagues have set up Card Club!

Every Friday our residents will be able to come to the cafe, enjoy some fresh bakes, coffee and a range of card games to appreciate.

Residents at Crandon Springs in Wells held a charity coffee morning on 24th September to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Crandon Springs coffee morning was a big success – they managed to raise over £200 and, most importantly, everyone had a lot of fun doing it! The event included a visit from The Mayor of Wells, Councillor Philip Welch and also a two hour set from Wells City Band for all to enjoy.

The British charity provides financial aid, specialist healthcare services, and all different kinds of support to those living with cancer. The purpose of the coffee morning is to sit down with your friends and family and catch up with a nice cuppa for a good cause. The money raised will help Macmillan make sure no one has to face cancer alone.

Natalie Deverall, General Manager at Crandon Springs Care Home, said: “Holding our own Macmillan coffee morning has been a huge amount of fun and everyone at the home is always keen to support this fantastic charity in any way we can. We are very glad to be able to do our bit to raise further awareness and money for the charity.”
Crandon Springs care home is run by Barchester Healthcare, one of the UK’s largest care providers, which is committed to delivering personalised care across its care homes and hospitals. Crandon Springs provides residential care and dementia care for 64 residents from respite care to long term stays.

Our residents here at Crandon Springs really rejoice in keeping active and continuing their mobility improvement. Today our residents have been celebrating National fitness day by having a class of "Flexercise" held by our life enrichment co-ordinator, Tracy and also getting the golf net se up in the garden.

National fitness day is an opportunity to highlight the important role of physical activity of all ages and abilities. Due to popular demand our residents take part in 2 Flexercise classes per week!

Our residents here at Crandon Springs, love nothing more than a social afternoon in the lounge. Our life enrichment co-ordinator, Tracy, set up a selection of cheese and wines for our residents to enjoy whilst taking part in our weekly knowledge quiz.

George, one of our residential residents is so far, the winner week on week for our quizzes with the fastest and accurate answers every time.

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Our residents here at Crandon Springs have recently enjoyed a trip to our local Somerset Lavender Farm on our mini bus!

A group of residents were accompanied by our activities co-ordinator, Tabby on a beautiful sunny day to enjoy nature's finest flowers.

Somerset Lavender Farm harvest lavender for essential oils. Guests have been visiting Somerset Lavender Farm since 2006. They have recently planted 6.5 acres of sunflowers which have come to bloom!!

Our residents absolutely loved the experience and look forward to visiting the farm again. Many of our residents have purchased small lavender samples for their bedrooms back at Crandon Springs to enjoy too.

What a day! Crandon Springs Care Home would like to say thank you to the 50 classic cars and many, many spectators who came to support our first ever classic car show.

With the sun shining, our residents and spectators explored the large range of classic cars showcased in our car park. Everyone enjoyed socialising and admiring the cars whilst our head chef provided American style food for all and an ice cream van too.

One of our residents commented “I want to thank you for hosting such an amazing event. It has really taken me back to my youth, I was a apart of many motor groups and use to be a rally girl!”

Crandon Springs would like to thank every single person who supported our event from local spectators, car enthusiasts and even the local police! As promised at the event, we will ensure this is an annual get together!