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
Creating with clay
Creating with clay is a physical-sensual-mental experience. Thanks to Rachel Akers from Akers of Art, a small group of Fountains' residents thoroughly enjoyed the experience and made some lovely tea light lanterns.
Once they are dried out our residents can enjoy painting them and seeing the finished result.
Activities in Brueton lounge
Brueton communal lounge was the destination for our residents at Fountains this week to come together and enjoy activity.
With 6 communal lounges to choose from across the home, it was Brueton, on our residential community that was put to good use.
Our residents enjoyed an interesting talk on Cliveden”s stories, brought to us on the big screen by Volunteer Guides of The National Trust, which was both fascinating and insightful.
Our weekly sports session was also held in Brueton lounge, delivered by Chloe from EveryoneForSports. This session always gets great attendance and supports our residents with movement and co-ordination. As always it was a fun session that brought out the competitive streak in our residents.
We're all looking forward to the return of the warmer weather when these sessions can be held in our gardens.
"Flipping" winner
Our pancake "flipping" winner received a surprise visit to present her with a prize and certificate.
Vera - a resident at Harper Fields Care Home - Barchester Healthcare was the winner with 30 flips in a row!
Fountains sent over Home Service Advisor Lorraine Shannon to present her with a lemon drizzle cake, made by Fountains Head Chef Colin and a certificate of congratulations.
The surprise visit was just in time for Vera to enjoy a slice of cake with her fellow residents at tea time. She was delighted.
Well done to Vera.
Real Bread Week activity
Fountains residents enjoyed getting busy in the kitchen to celebrate Real Bread Week.
We made a delicious selection of breads from savoury white rolls to seeded brown loaves, and a fruit bread too.
We had a wonderful time sharing baking stories and reminiscing whilst waiting for the dough to rise.
The smell of fresh bread filled the home and had us all excited for the finished result. I think you’ll agree they looked fantastic.
We look forward to celebrating again next year!
World Wildlife Day Talk
To celebrate World Wildlife Day Fountains’ residents enjoyed a talk from our wildlife expert Simon Watts.
Simon gave us a wonderful presentation on English wildlife from the allotments in the West Midlands.
Our residents were fascinated with stories and the variety of species, from foxes to squirrels, owls, bats, and birds too.
It was a fantastic afternoon and we certainly look forward to welcoming Simon again soon.
World Book Day fun
To celebrate World Book Day fountains residents enjoyed reading a selection of children’s stories to be sent to the children at Woodland’s School.
The children sent us a selection of videos to celebrate National storytelling week so we decided to return the kindness.
Our residents loved reading the stories as it reminded them of happy memories reading to their own children.
Fountains care staff enjoyed getting involved in World Book Day too and dressed up as their favourite characters from Harry Potter.
They certainly had our residents smiling.
Residents enjoyed a cosy morning spent reading a book of their choice with a cup of tea. Our book trolley is available for daily reading on all our communities.
We look forward to celebrating World Book Day again next year.
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.
