Activities at Fountains 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.
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.
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
Reminisce Café’ Zoo-Lab Visit
It was a fantastic Morning here at fountains, whilst we hosted our monthly reminisce café! A full bistro, with residents very keen on being introduced to some interesting creatures bought in by Ellie are Zoo-Lab rep. Ellie, used her knowledge to help categorise the creatures using an Olympic theme, by telling us very interesting facts about the different creatures that we were being introduced to. Everyone had the opportunity in which to get up close and personal with the creatures, some residents were very brave and chose to hold and touch them!
“This was great to see, I have never really been one for creepy crawly’ s but I have found this fascinating, I am pleased I was able to get up close.” Said Barbara a resident.
“I used to look after my neighbours snake when I was younger, it was lovely to be able to get close to the corn snake after such a long time, they truly are magnificent creatures” said Richard a resident.
OLYMPIC CELEBRATIONS
The Paris Olympics have been a highlight of our summer! Our residents have been very focused and engaged with watching the different events. With the inspiration from our regional director Clare Mudge, we linked up with our sister homes to get creative and let our residents design their own Olympic rings and link them with the Barchester values.
We had a day full of our own Olympic events, residents from two of our sister homes Edgbaston and Overslade house join us. This bought our residents together to participating in the different activities. The atmosphere was high, bright, uplifting, and everyone was raring to get the games started. Once we were finished, everyone was treated to a homemade fish and chips lunch with a homemade Manchester dessert, this was made by our own head chef Maria.
“Wow, this is just fantastic. I’m very pleased we came along and had this opportunity to meet everyone and see another of Barchester’s homes.” Said a guest resident.
After saying goodbye to our sister homes after lunch, our residents then settled down for a relaxed afternoon performance from David a local singer.
Here is what Sara King, Fountains General Manager had to share about the event “An amazing atmosphere, it was fantastic to see our residents faces light up with excitement when taking part in such an active morning of fun filled activities. We were more than delighted to have the opportunity to host our sister homes, and glad to hear such positive feedback from our visitors and those who took part.
Guest Speaker - John Flanner MBE
We were pleased to welcome the inspirational guest speaker in John Flanner MBE.
John is a highly sought after motivational speaker, so it was a real treat for our Residents to hear about his amazing life and what he has conquered.
John has a regular slot on On Your Radio - Solihull every Thursday 7-8pm, playing the very best of songs through the decades - our Residents will be sure to tune in
But there is more.... John has very kindly donated to the home, copies of his five books, which Residents, Staff and Families can look forward to reading.
Thank you John and we look forward to welcoming you back for Part 3!
Tiki Bar Fun
Having an indoor adventure in the summer month. The weather may not of been on our side, but we don’t let that stop us from having fun! We arranged a nice Hawaiian themed event, along with our Tiki Bar which had a nice selection of cocktails and mocktails, Fresh fruit, and other delicious snacks. Our residents expressed their happiness of being able to join in with this fun event, listening to tropical sounds, name that cocktail game, sharing stories of holidays with their loved ones, and tasting something new. “This was a great way to spend our time on a Sunday afternoon, getting together and having fun. One of the things I loved about living here” said Stuart.
Making a wish come true
Here at Fountains we have a wish upon a star, in which our residents can share with us a past interest or hobby that they would love to do again. It may even be something completely new and adventurous, and something they always wished they tried. We are happy to share with you Michael’s wish. Michael is a keen Cricketer, he loves to watch his home team Warwickshire and England play. Michael has been attending Edgbaston stadium since before he can remember and when he retired he sent more time there enjoying the thing he loves. Supporting Michael we were able to help make Michaels wish come true and took him to Edgbaston stadium to watch his home team of Warwickshire. Michael was truly over the moon and couldn’t believe that he was able to go back and visit the grounds and catch a liver match. Michaels daughter Lynn, was so pleased that we were able to make her dad’s wish come true and give him the life experience all over again.
Stratford Upon Avon
A brilliant day out for our residents, with the sun shining for us we had the perfect weather to explore Stratford. The residents were able explore their own interests of the theatre, Peter was pleased to shake hands with Shakespeare himself, though a little cold. Whilst being able to admire the beautiful flower beds, listen to the noisy swans, we stopped off to relax with refreshments, and enjoy the view of the river Avon.
Upcoming events
April Open Day
We welcome everyone to come and join us for our Easter Open day. We will be hosting a easter themed day!
