Activities at Glebefields Care Home
Activities are the cornerstone of a wholesome home experience, and our Activities Coordinators are always putting their creative minds to the test by organising new and exciting social events for residents to partake in. Of course, we take into account the likes and dislikes of those we support, so if someone doesn’t feel like trying something new, there will always be something on offer to reflect their personal interests. For the people who may just prefer some peace and quiet instead, we also offer one-to-one time that can be enjoyed with a nice cup of coffee or just a simple chat – whatever they desire.
Kay Boland
Hi, my name is Kay and I’m the Activities Lead for all things ‘Life Enrichment’ at Glebefields care home in Drayton, Banbury.
Throughout my career within the care industry, I have thrived o the many challenges presented and developed immense satisfaction through enabling others. As an activities coordinator, I act with integrity and always ensure that I place residents at the heart of what I do. I work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team to help create and maintain a robust service. I am committed to my personal and professional development which aligns Health and Social Care core values, providing diversity, empowerment, equality and independence for all residents.
Making links with local groups and organisations to ensure our residents remain part of the local community is a key part of my role, if you would like to make contact with me and our residents, please feel free to call me on 01733 246840 or drop me an email Glebefields.activities@barchester.com
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 Glebefields Care Home
Sunshine and Scrabble!
We had a lovely day in the gorgeous sunshine yesterday, enjoying our competitive scrabble sessions with our homemade lemonade to keep us all cool and hydrated.
Saying Goodbye & Happy Retirement to Mariya
We have had the pleasure of beautiful 'Mariya' working with the team here at Glebefields for the past 12 years. It was with a heavy heart the residents and staff said 'good bye and happy retirement'
Even though it was a sad moment saying goodbye, we wanted to ensure Mariya she would be truly missed and poured her will good will messages and presents. We arranged for her to receive one of her favourites; a delicious fresh fruit cake, this time with her face on it!
Our residents gave her a Ted Baker necklace and the matching earrings came from her colleagues. The home manager and deputy presented Mariya with a beautiful L.Credi back-bag as a thank you from all at Barchester for her dedication and service to Glebefields over the years.
We all wish you a 'Happy and Healthy' retirement, you’ll not be forgotten, please come and visit at any time; we’re looking forward to wow'ing you on a show round of the newly refurbished home.
Virtual Visit to Iceland
Our residents recently took a 'virtual' trip to Iceland to learn all about the amazing birds that inhabit the Vestmannaeyjar Archipelago and hear about how SEA LIFE Trust’s animal care team, along with the islanders, are helping to protect them. The virtual tour was hosted by General Manager, Audrey Padgett and her expert team.
Audrey’s presentation took our residents behind the scenes at the Puffin Rescue Centre and showcased the work that the animal care team do every day to rescue the Atlantic puffins and keep them safe. Her talk covered the life of puffins in the wild, the puffling rescue programme in Westman Islands where the Rescue Centre is based and how the team nurture these charismatic little birds and rehabilitate them back into the wild.
Home Manager; Nisha said “Our residents love watching the live virtual events provided by our Life Enrichment team and finding out about new things and they are all especially interested in animals so we were delighted to be able to watch this presentation. We had so many questions, it was brilliant to be able to ask Audrey and her team all about the conservation work they do with the puffins.”
To subscribe and watch please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa-5KicBZQc
Congratulations 'Farmhouse Landscape'
We are so pleased to announce the Winner of our Oxfordshire Photography Competition is... Sam Kelly and her ‘Farmhouse Landscape’.
Our residents all felt the Farmhouse photo contained 'drama' and captured the beauty of our local countryside; whatever the weather.
We'd like to send special thanks to all those who entered. The quality of images received were so high, it was an extremely difficult decision for our residents to make.
Thank you all once again.
The Oxfordshire Photography Competition - Judging
We'd like to send a massive 'Thank You' to all the amazing Oxfordshire photographers who entered our latest competition. Our resident judging panel gathered together yesterday to review each entry and were very impressed with the quality of each image.
The group spent time ranking each image, and have managed to bring all entries down to their top 4 finalists;
Blue-Tit Branch
Combine Harvest
Thistle Bees
Farmhouse Landscape
As the winning image will be printed and framed for display in our beautiful newly refurbished home, we have printed the final 4 and placed all on display for the judging panel to make their final decision later today.
The winner will be announced tomorrow 7th July 2021 - Good luck everyone, and thank you once again to all those who entered. We really do have a talented group of photographers within the local community!
We are making WOW progress!
We are making progress with our whole home refurbishment! We have had our builders strip the whole of our 1st and 2nd floor to start renovating them.
We are now onto Phase 1 of our WOW which is due to be completed by the end of the year. They are making our floors fresher, livable and more purpose built! Our General Manager, Nisha Shaji regularly meets with our site manager seen in the picture below to discuss time scales, weekly targets and how things are going.
To find our more about our WOW and reserving your room call today on 01295 738133!
Upcoming events
Community Games Afternoon
We're welcoming our local community, families and friends for a lovely weekly get-together. Please join us every Thursday from 14:00-15:30 for fun and games.
Community Knit & Natter
Please join us on the second Tuesday of every month 2pm - 4pm. Enjoy friendly company as you knit and natter over tea, coffee and cake!
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 Wednesday 12.30-14.30pm, call now to book.
Community Scrabble Club
Join us every Thursday 11:00am - 12:30pm for a friendly game of Scrabble in a relaxed setting, come and test your word skills and make new friends.
