Elgar CourtBarchester Healthcare

Activities at Elgar Court Care Home

Name: Elgar Court Care Home
Address: 35 St. Andrew's Road,, Malvern, WR14 3PT, GB
Telephone: 01684880154

Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.

Our activities team are great at building the activities programme around the likes and interests of the people we care for. Ensuring that our social events offer fun and adventure is part of the ethos of our home; it’s important that those we support can enjoy an active and social lifestyle. Of course, there will always be those who prefer peace and quiet, and in these instances, a cup of tea and a chat are always welcomed.

Read our brochure ‘Life-enriching activities’ for more information about life in our care homes.

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Kerrie Perks

Activities Leader

Hello, My name is Kerrie and I provide the unique life enrichment for residents at Elgar Court. I moved to Malvern 12 years ago to live with my fiance and we have two tortoises and a snake. I love to play Dungeons and Dragons with my friends. I am very 'outdoorsy' and used to ride horses and compete nationally in athletics, specialising in track and field for Redditch and Bromsgrove athletics club. In my spare time, I love being in the kitchen and making treats for my family.

Celebrating life at Elgar Court Care Home

Classic Car Sunday!

What a wonderful turnout this weekend for our very first Classic Car Sunday event! We had so many spectacular cars with their owners who lived in Malvern and the surrounding parishes, and those who travelled from far away including the Pat Dorrell, Chairman of the Austin Healey Club who travelled all the way from Stratford Upon Avon and Simon with his Porsche 356 from Kidderminster.

This event will be held every second sunday of the month until November.

Driving in style!

Everyone remembers Peter, our lovely resident walking a mile last year to our local pub after being so poorly. Today his devoted daughter Lyn, has arranged for Peter to go for a spin in a Morgan Car !

This was from the flagship Morgan centre in Malvern, with Chris one of the chief electrical engineers (so he's in good hands!). Peter had an amazing time cruising around the Malvern Hills and his feet haven't quite touched the floor yet! Lyn his daughter said, this is on Dad's bucket list, so the next one is in a Land Rover up the Malvern Beacon.....Well let's see what we can do Peter, dreams can come true !

All things WILD!

We welcomed a very special group to our home, with Dave from Reptomania. Dave came to share his love of exotic animals the varied from snakes and lizards to African giant snails and cherry legged millipede.

Residents were delighted and enthralled - and sometimes with a little bit of encouragement to hold or stroke the different animals. One particular residents Leslie has always been fearful of snakes but by the end she was happy to say her mind was changed and now she is happier to be around them. She loved how the little white ball python, called pearl, felt as soft as velvet. And Jenny fell in love with the all the different animals and had a wonderful time holding them.

We can't wait to see them again!

Another day, another FUN trip!

Every week our residents look forward to trips out and about both locally and far and wide! This week we went to Webbs of Wychbold garden centre in Droitwich to get inspiration from their displays - and then put thinking caps on garden design over a nice cold drink in the café.

Happy 106th Birthday Alice!

Today we celebrated the Queen of our home, Alice Foulkes’s 106th Birthday.

What an honour and a privilege it is to care for this wonderful lady and ensure she enjoys every day.

After a special breakfast, Alice welcomed BBC Radio and the News team to interview her about her wonderful life and her secrets to staying young! Later that day more birthday party jollities, with games and music from the 1920s and the Birthday cake and bubbles to share with everyone – and naturally, Alice’s favourite, a tipple of Baileys.

As you can imagine, there were many presents and a mountain of birthday cards for Alice from local schools, her friends, well wishers and of course, King Charles and Queen Camilla. Ruby and Lacey visited from Malvern Wyche School to give Alice her cards, and they spied Alice’s requested evening tea….it was chocolate biscuits, ice cream and juice - Well at 106 years old, you can have anything you want!

What a wonderful day and a big thank you from Alice, for all the love everyone has given her today!

RAF Cosford Visit for VE Day

We celebrated VE Day on Friday, 8 May 2026, to commemorate the end of World War II in Europe with a day out at RAF Cosford in Shropshire.

Our residents took flight to the RAF museum in Cosford with two of our fellow Barchester care homes; Iverley View and Holyfield, to share a fantastic day out together. Everyone loved seeing all the different planes from the Messerschmitt to the Valiant - and there was even a few tanks there to enjoy as well.

Peter who chatted to staff at the museum was hoping to see if the had a Viper plane, but sadly it was not currently on on the day of the visit. At the end of the day, everyone said what a splendid day out it was and really enjoyed meeting other residents for the homes too!

No 'Rocky' starts here!

We always encourage residents to share their special skills and this week, Jenny enjoyed teaching our chef and kitchen team her secret receipe for 'Rock cakes'! Fun was had by all and we especially enjoyed eating these served with afternoon tea.

No 'Rocky' starts here!

We always encourage residents to share their special skills and this week, Jenny enjoyed teaching our chef and kitchen team her secret reciepe for 'Rock cakes'! Fun was had by all and we especially enjoyed eating these served with afternoon tea.

Our Allotment updates!

We will be bringing you regular updates on how our allotment is progressing each week. After planting out the seedlings, our residents are now preparing the beds they will go in - making the most of the fine weather has been a great way of getting outside and enjoying day!

Why don't you come along and enjoy an afternoon with us and give us your own gardening tips! Tea and cake provided free of charge!

Lizzies Farm

What a lovely sunny week it was last week when our residents took off to Bromsgrove to visit a lovely little farm at the edge of Catshill called Lizzies Farm. Home to Highland cows and many other animals our residents got to enjoy some hands care with the baby lambs, a highland cow - and even got to witness the birth of a newborn baby boy lamb!

Our residents Sheila and Leslie said the drive over was spectacular and that animals were all so wonderfully looked after. Sheila who used to live on a farm was was impressed by how clean the farm was. And Joan loved saying hello to the lambs that where in the barn for hand rearing

Clay Creation and Painting

A ladies morning activity today for Clay Creations and Painting. Everyone enjoyed a morning Clay Creating and painting with chats and laughter throughout. The Clay Creations are being left to dry and will be painted next week. A relaxing morning for all.

Malvern & Ledbury Branch for Guide Dogs

We welcomed the Guide Dogs Ledbury and Malvern branch to our home where our residents and community found out about their fundraising work and listened to personal stories from members who had lost some or all of their sight. This was quite an inspirational and uplifting morning hearing about the work and helping their fundraising activities - there were quite a few furry dog and puppy toys purchased at this event by everyone!

Malvern Priory Park in the Sunshine

Staying local this week, our Residents got out and enjoyed the wonderful sunshine at Priory Park which inspired CS Lewis's Narnia, and admired the scenery, watched the ducks waddling around and ate ice cream!

Happy Birthday Dee!

We love to celebrate our residents, and this week Dee celebrated her 86th birthday with her all time fave chocolate cake made by Chef! Happy Birthday Dee, with lots of love from your friends and residents.

Beer Tasting Afternoon....National Beer Day

Residents got together to celebrate National Beer Day by enjoying a tasting afternoon by sampling what they would enjoy the most at our home. It was unanimous that the top drink was in fact the Bulmers Cider closely followed by both Becks and Carling larger!