Activities at Fountains Care Home
We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.
Louise Crooks
Hello I am Louise, my first role with Barchester was caring for our residents. Previously I worked in an early years environment for 17 years where I organised activities and events. I am thrilled to now be Activities Lead and being able to continue enriching the life’s of our lovely residents here at Fountains.
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 Fountains Care Home
Bunny Hunt for Easter
Easter Egg Hunt!! What a wonderful afternoon we had, full of fun and games. It was lovely to get together, watch the children enjoying their Easter bunny hunt and celebrate Easter.
World Book Day
For world book day we had our pen pals from woodlands school come and join us for the afternoon. The children brought their favourite books. They shared them with our residents who were more than happy to read with them and ask questions. Our residents were pleased to finally meet their pen pals.
Our residents comments about the visit “I was so pleased, and happy to see so many smiling faces”
“it’s good to see children still enjoying a book!”
Flower Arranging
Here we have our lady Jane, who is just passionate about flowers. Jane really enjoys getting involved and being able to make the arrangements for the vases in our communal areas. Jane also helps to identify the flowers, teaching and sharing her knowledge with others.
Nutrition and Hydration Week
Residents at Fountains had a splendid time using a selection of fresh fruits, and juices to create tasty mocktails. Our residents really enjoyed trying variety of flavours, the most popular one was ginger and pineapple. We always try to shine light on the importance of maintaining a healthy, and well balanced diet, this helps improve the quality of life.
Mardi Gras Party Comes to Fountains!
We celebrated Mardi Gras in style! We learned the history of Mardi Gras along with a glass of Pink gin & lemonade & other refreshments. We enjoyed listening & dancing to Portuguese music, whilst getting all feathered up, including residents wearing their own masks which they created earlier this week.
Wonderful Visit Brings Back Childhood Memories
Our residents were over the moon when they met our team leaders grandchild. Residents enjoyed gifting daffodils, singing rhymes. This bought back lots of fun memories in which we had a cup of tea a piece of cake & reminiscing about our younger days.
Upcoming events
Reminiscence Cafe
Please join us for our monthly Reminiscence Cafe where we will pick a topic and talk about our memories, whilst making new friends and enjoying some refreshments.
July
Hello July! - we have another month filled with activities for our Residents and community to enjoy. Please come along.
Don't Dine Alone
We know meal times can be a lonely time for some people, that's why we're inviting local older people to join us for lunch every Friday from 12.30pm.
Room for Hire
Looking for somewhere to hold your meeting or event? We have a meeting room that is available for free to members of the local community and professionals.
