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
Christmas card entry
Fountains residents have been preparing for Christmas and have started to make their own Christmas Cards for our friends and pen pals out in the community.
One of our residents made such a lovely Christmas tree design card that we thought it was worthy of entering into Solihull Branch Parkinsons Uk “Design A Christmas Card” Competition.
Good luck Gloria!
Shoe Box Appeal
Fountains are putting together shoe boxes for those less fortunate this Christmas.
Christmas will be very different this year and we would like to spread a little cheer by putting together Christmas Shoe Box parcels for families to enjoy.
We have a donation box outside Fountains for anyone who has items they would be happy to donate for our residents to put together some exciting parcels.
We are requesting items such as cuddly toys, stationary, toiletries, confectionary, non-perishable food, books, word searches, puzzle books, comics, gloves etc
All donations greatly appreciated. End date for items 13th December 2020.
Fountains Care Home, 1355 Stratford Road, Shirley, Solihull, B90 4EF.
For further information please call 0121 733 8602
Virtual Exercise Sessions
Fountains continue to access virtual exercise twice weekly through Inclusive Sporting Academy and our residents thoroughly enjoy these sessions.
This week, our first couple to move into Fountains, enjoyed an exclusive session and wholeheartedly threw themselves into the class.
They had so much fun.
To watch the video please visit our Facebook page
Brownie Buddies
Lorraine Shannon, HSA for Fountains was delighted to be invited to 1st Earlswood Brownie Units zoom get together, to meet some of the brownies aged between 7-10yrs
The girls had been busy writing letters, which have since been shared with our residents and they are busing penning replies.
The Brownie Unit included our residents in their activity at home, which was making elephants out of milk carton bottles.
Our residents thoroughly enjoyed the activity and made some lovely elephants.
Fountains is extremely proud of their community links and 1st Earlswood Brownies is no exception. We look forward to the day we can invite the girls into Fountains to meet the residents they have been writing to and vice versa.
Anyone interested in joining the Brownies please contact Helen, Brown Owl on 07544 377 962 or email 1stearlswoodbrownies@gmail.com
National Homemade Bread Day 2020
Residents at Fountains enjoyed a masterclass on bread making from Fountains maintenance manager to mark National Homemade Bread Day.
Harvir regularly makes bread for himself and his family and was delighted to share his expertise with everyone.
It was a new experience for those involved and they certainly appreciated the hard work required to knead the dough so as to produce amazing bread.
It was definitely worth the effort though as seeing the bread rise brought a lot of joy and that was before the end result was sampled……
Everyone agreed the bread was the best they had ever tasted and discussions were quickly underway as to what bread they could make next time – festive bread came out as the winner so watch this space!
Festival Fun
Fountains residents and staff celebrated Diwali Festival of Light
Our residents enjoyed creating their own style of Rangoli, choosing the colours' and design to produce a beautiful and bright piece of art.
They were inspired by researching other rangoli's and learning about its meaning and place in the Festival celebrations.
The finished result included lights, colourful feathers, beads and ribbons.
No festival would be complete without good food and dancing so our wonderful kitchen team produced a delicious medley of indian starters including vegetable samosas, onion bhajis and poppadoms with dips of mint yoghurt and mango chutney. The tasting experience was a delicious treat and everyone enjoyed the exotic flavours.
Bolywood dancing concluded the celebrations and our residents loved watching the talented dancers in their bright and beautiful outfits and couldn’t help but joining in.
Videos on facebook so please follow the link and like our page
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.
