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
Vaccine joy for staff
Fountains Care team were delighted to receive their covid vaccine when Dr Russell and Dr Kotecha returned to the home to administer the first round of injections.
The team described how “excited” and "thrilled" they were to play their part to protect our residents, colleagues and community.
Huge thanks to Solihull Health Partnership for their continued support after what has been a challenging year.
The King’s birthday celebrated
Residents enjoyed celebrating Elvis Presley’s birthday with an Elvis themed quiz, rock ‘n’ roll and enjoying his most famous film “Blue Hawaii”.
Whilst Elvis was remembered he looked over our residents in cardboard cut out form!
We were all amazed by our very own super fan resident, Jennifer, who knew all the answers in our quiz and absolutely smashed it.
Residents enjoyed a fantastic performance by our resident couple who need no excuse to hit the dancefloor and after all that excitement the celebrations were rounded off by relaxing and enjoying “Blue Hawaii” with coffee and cake.
Happy Birthday Elvis!
Check out our facebook page to see our wonderful couple’s dancing https://m.facebook.com/BarchesterFountains/
Veganuary 2021
Residents at Fountains began Veganuary with baking some vegan chocolate cookies.
Residents were interested to take part in Veganuary and learn more about vegan ingredients. It was a new experience for most to work with plant based butter, soya milk and vegan chocolate.
There was a tasting activity of the ingredients before the baking began and the residents enjoyed them, particularly the chocolate!
The end result was enjoyed with a glass of plant based milk and everyone enjoyed the experience.
Watch this space for our next vegan attempt during Veganuary.
Winning Entry
Our very own talented resident won the “Design a Christmas Card” for the over 75’s category, in the Parkinson’s Society Christmas Competition.
Congratulations to Gloria!
She produced a lovely Christmas Tree Design and was presented with a beautiful “art inspired” silk scarf.
New Year gift for residents
Residents received their first round of covid-19 vaccine at Fountains!!
GP Russell and GP Kotecha from Solihull Healthcare Partnership visited Fountains to administer the vaccine.
Residents were genuinely excited to receive their vaccine and it gave everyone such a feeling of hope for the future. What a positive start to 2021!
The second round of vaccination will be administered at a later date.
Resident Phyllis said that the vaccine was “the first step to getting back to normal life”.
We second that Phyllis!
Christmas Donations
Fountains were overwhelmed with the generosity from the local community when we appealed for donations to make up shoe boxes.
We had some lovely gifts donated and our residents really enjoyed making up gift bags for those less privileged this Christmas.
We collaborated with The Bridge – Solihull Christian Fellowship who were very happy to take our gift bags to distribute to those that they knew would appreciate them.
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.
