Activities at Fountains Care Home

Since coming to live at Fountains care home, George has expressed his needs to keep busy and carry on enjoying his hobbies. George, has always been a handyman, he enjoys being part of projects and getting helping others whenever he can. Here we have George with our maintenance team Harvi & Nick. They were able to support George with his passion for helping others, by organising an opportunity for George to join them in painting the communal garden furniture. George was really pleased to help and found himself motivated and empowered to join in and complete the task ahead. Well done Team for your hard work, this has been a success!

A fantastic way to start our seasonal celebrations, with a live performance of dance and music. The local club from Henley in Arden, who are known as Silhill Morris Dancers. The group were wearing the symbolic items from feathers, sashes and bells whilst displaying traditional dancing. Our residents, were very engrossed and thrilled to have witness the experience here at the home. This bought laughter and joy for everyone and people were happy to listen and learn the history behind this magnificent event.

After are latest residents meeting, a request was made for a trip to the botanical gardens in Birmingham, of course it was our pleasure to make it happen! Here we have our residents enjoying a sunny day in one of Birmingham’s hidden beauty’s. Being well into spring, the blossom was blooming and the plants has beautiful buds showing all around. Everywhere we looked there was amazing views, different colours and the sounds the birds created released a tranquil feeling for all to enjoy whilst rooming freely. “it’s just incredible to see, I’m so glad we visited and able to see all of this.” Praised Edna (resident)

Animal lovers!

Here we have some of our residents enjoying a nice trip out to visit Sheldon Country park and the old rectory farm.

Liz, who just adores all animals, showed so much interest and engaged throughout the whole trip! The residents enjoyed being able to see the sheep, horse and the pigs, they found them to be very amusing especially when the pigs snored. We finished our visit by visiting the old farm house for hot refreshments and a slice of home made cake before heading back home.

In April we were delighted to launch our monthly Reminiscence Cafe.

Residents, staff, family and the local community came together at the home to share their memories about this months chosen topic, Cadbury.  It is the 200th Anniversary of the Cadbury brand this year, so we thought this was a perfect choice.

We shared the family story of Cadbury, the history of Bournville and everyone was keen to share their own memories. We also have Residents here at Fountains who worked for and with Cadbury, which was extra special.

We were also joined by @Visiting Angels Warwickshire who brought along some cakes to add to our selection of Cadbury chocolate.

Our next Reminiscence Cafe will be on Wednesday 29th May. Pop the date in your diary - we would love to have you join us!

A fantastic morning adventure, our gentleman were able to start off with exploring the past by visiting "history through the years" displays. This was a great way in which the residents were able to make connections and share their knowledge on so many different subjects. The art gallery had so much to offer, the gentlemen were amazed at the details and the way they artists have managed to capture such details.

"This has been great, I'm so happy to explore and adventure out! i was happy to see some things older than me" joked George (resident) when viewing the dippy dinosaur display.