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
It's starting to look a lot like Christmas at Fountains
December has arrived and here at Fountains we are getting into the festive spirit!
From decorating our reception area, lounges and windows too, we have all been busy.
Our residents enjoyed putting up and decorating our trees, whilst listening and singing along to festive music. It filled us with excitement for the coming weeks.
Our staff have been busy getting creative too.
Our Head House Keeper Amber created our beautiful ‘Winter Wonderland’ inspired Window Displays.
One of our Care Assistants Louise also made some ‘Snow-Globe Centre Pieces’ which are just beautiful.
Stay tuned to see all of the exciting activities we take part in this month. Happy December everyone!
Winter shawl donation
Fountains residents would like to say a huge ‘Thank You’ to a very kind member of our community - Margaret Payton for our beautiful knitted shawls
Our residents were delighted to receive such a thoughtful gift. They certainly will be keeping us cosy during the winter months.
Age UK Solihull Christmas card sale
It was a pleasure to welcome Age UK Solihull to Fountains in Shirley, Solihull to sell their Christmas cards to residents and their families.
We look forward to welcoming them and their Christmas cards for sale, to our Christmas Light Switch On event on Tuesday 30th November with The Mayor of Solihull.
Christmas Light Switch On
We are looking forward to our special Christmas Light Switch on event on Tuesday 30th November with our special guest The Mayor of Solihull.
We also have The Shirley Lions Santa Sleigh visiting, along with The Lollipop Ponies, St Patricks' Church Choir to sing carols with us, a delicious festive supper with Mulled WIne, table top games, raffle and stalls.
Come and join us - all welcome!
Fountains Film Club
When it’s a cold autumnal day all you want to do is relax in an armchair, with a cup of tea and a movie.
Here at Fountains we love to spend our afternoons with our feet up & relaxing at ‘Fountains Film Club’.
Today we enjoyed the first of our festive films and watched “The Holiday”.
All of our residents enjoyed a peaceful and cosy afternoon spent with each other.
Wreath making masterclass
Christmas preparations have began at Fountains Care Home.
Our residents were delighted to get involved with a ‘Virtual Wreath Making Masterclass with Blooming Haus - Floral Engineers.
Blooming Haus is one of the UK’s most innovative floral design and artisan studios.
Fountains residents’ were honoured to have the duo behind Blooming Haus - Michal Kowalski and his business partner Michael Dariane guiding us through the process of wreath making.
After collecting our foliage and decorations we were ready to create our designs. It was very intricate work but our residents very much enjoyed the challenge and we were thrilled with the end result!
All that was left to do was to display them proudly on our doors.
A big ‘Thank You’ to Blooming Haus for starting our festive activities so wonderfully.
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.
