Elgar CourtBarchester Healthcare

Activities at Elgar Court Care Home

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

Hats off to Ladies Day!

What a lovely coffee morning we had on our Royal Ascot Ladies Day! Hats galore were the order of the day with a glass of Prosecco to toast this annual event. All money raised will go to our Barchester foundation charity. The residents thanked everyone who came, including Best Hat winner, Sue Page pictured here. Here's to next year!

Summer is here!

Summer fun is well underway, and our residents went fruit picking trip at Clive’s’ farm shop in Upton Upon Severn. Nostalgia, munching strawberries and raspberries were the order of the day, as residents giggled and reminisced about the days when they used to go fruit picking - And Martha and Alice didn’t stop till their punnet were full! It proves that even when you are 105 years young, live doesn't have to be boring, especially when you live at Elgar Court!

We can't wait to go back soon!

A buzz around our home!

To mark the importance of World Bee day this week, we were delighted to welcome Martin Porter from the Malvern and Upton Bee Keepers Association to tell us about Bee Keeping and the significance of Bees for the environment.

Bees help produce 1/3 of our food supply through their pollinating powers. This ensures food security, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity but Bees also significantly contribute to the mitigation of climate change and the conservation of the environment! Wow!!

Residents especially enjoyed sampling the honey from Martin’s Hives in Malvern and from his other home in France and the drink Mead made from it - Lucky us!

Thank you for coming to see us to day Martin, you are welcome back anytime.

Tea Party & Dance

We had a brilliant afternoon at the Tea Party and Dance held at Malvern Theatres today. Led by Rachel Freeman from Everybody Dance, Rachel brought together this uplifting event for elders living with dementia to dance away the afternoon with pupils from The Chase School.

Our residents loved meeting new people and dancing with the wonderful and friendly school pupils - Thank you everyone!

Enjoying Memories - Dementia Awareness Week - 19 - 25 May 2025

This year, as part of Dementia Awareness week, we welcomed Sarah Bennion, the Dementia Ambassador for Worcestershire Library Services - pictured here with Liz our Deputy Manager at Elgar Court. Sarah is promoting their new library loan initiative "Memories". This is a themed backpack containing items to invoke engagement on that theme, such as sport or travel and can be loaned out with their library card to people living with dementia to use - as you would a library book. Residents today explored one of these themed bags, and they had such fun looking at the pictures and items from their era and talking about their lives of that time.

All libraries across Worcestershire now have a fantastic source of dementia information, and we had the privilege of adding to these resources by providing books for young children to read about why their grandparents or great grandparents, might need a little more help if they have dementia. Here you can see Phillip at Great Malvern library with Barchester books to provide free to families (they will also be distributed to other libraries in the county).

Classic Car Sunday!

We had an amazing turnout at Elgar Court with the launch of our Classic Car Sunday Season. The range of cars that visited really impressed everyone, and which included a Piper GTR, Porsche, Austin Healey, Landrover, Triumph Stag, MG and of course a Morgan - or two!

Residents had a great morning looking around and sitting in the cars including Helen in the Stag, and Vicky our Administrator finding it tricky getting out of the Piper GTR! This is a great event to meet likeminded enthusiasts with and without a car and meet new and old friends.

A big thank you to everyone who came from far and wide to take part - especially the lovely couple from Scotland who were down for the car show at the Three Counties this weekend and made time for us.

If you would like to take part and enjoy a complimentary Bacon bag and cakes, please come to our next event - Sunday 15 June 2025, 10am - 12.30pm

Into Bluebell Wood!

This week was no ordinary trip to the library, but a surprise afternoon out! After the Library, residents were asked if they would like to see the Bluebells slopes on the other side of Malvern.

A unanimous yes, but also made better via a trip to Waitrose to pick up ice creams and lollies to enjoy whilst looking at the spectacular views of the Bluebell slopes on the Malvern Hills.

Life is never dull at Elgar Court, come and see us or visit our website of events to find out why.

VE Day Celebrations

Today, his Majesty The King joined the Second World War veterans in London for the military procession and fly past to mark VE Day 80, and residents at Elgar Court observed the two-minute national silence at 12:00 to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day).

We celebrated VE Day and our freedom with a cheering concert with the D-Day Dollies and we remembered those veterans who fought to kept us safe.

Many of our residents with visitors from our community over tea and cake of those war time memories. Alice who is 105 years old, remembered both wars and other residents were evacuees during the second world war shared their experiences today.

Sincerely, thank you from everyone at Elgar Court.

Profiteroles are MAGNIFIQUE!

Dan gave the Residents' tea time Profiteroles the 'Chef's Kiss' this week, and made them SUPER SIZED!

Usually our residents can expect dainty little trios on their plates, but this week our residents thoroughly enjoyed these delightful showstoppers! Full of whipped double cream and fresh chocolate, residents said they were magnifique!