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.
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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
Newlands Bishop Farm
Lorraine Shannon, HSA of Fountains, visited Newlands Bishop Farm and met with Dawn Jones-Smith to discuss ways the two services can work together in the future.
The farm is part of the Family Care Trust and is currently celebrating their 25th year. They support people with learning disabilities and mental health problems and provide the opportunity to learn work based skills on the farm. This is provided through horticulture, woodwork, gardening, horse care, catering, retail and animal husbandry.
After enjoying a tour and seeing the facilities the Farm agreed to make the hanging baskets for the Marketing Suite due to open on 9th November using their own grown flowers and plants.
Lions Committee Social
Home Services Advisor, Lorraine Shannon accepted an invite to join the Lions Committee Social. The committee enjoyed a talk by Abbie Lake who was a young ambassador for The Lions some years go.
Abbie had returned from a 5 week trip to Borneo, furthering her medicine studies which The Lions had partially funded. Everyone enjoyed learning of how Abbie had benefitted from the trip and a good evening was had by all.
Making the Community Proud
Lorraine Shannon (Home Services Advisor) for Fountains – 2nd from right – joined a budding environmentally friendly group in the local area to help with clearing up litter. 11 bags of rubbish were cleared from a car park, leaving the area spick and span. It was a fun few hours, which ended with some well deserved lunch. Well done to all!
QAC Event
Fountains staff, attended the annual QAC Site Village event in Solihull, and had a fantastic day meeting local businesses and individuals who live within the area.
Topping Out
Fountains Care Home celebrates a major milestone with a recent topping out ceremony. The occasion marked the completion of the latest stage of the 80-bed care home, as it enters the final 6 months of construction.
Fountains Care Home in Solihull will open in January 2020 and will deliver personalised residential care as well as personalised dementia care in Barchester’s unique Memory Lane Community.
We Are Dementia Friends
Simone Joined residents of Anchor to host a Dementia Friends Session. Everyone was very proud to wear their badges as they pledged their own dementia friendly action.
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.
