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.

Enriching life
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Kay Boland

Activities Coordinator

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

Life-encriching activities booklet

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 Glebefields Care Home

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Macmillan Coffee Morning

Staff at Glebefields enjoyed an internal coffee morning to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. We held a cake baking competition and all staff made a fantastic effort to make and create some wonderful treats.

There was also a competition to guess how many sprinkles on the Macmillan Colin the Caterpillar, which many enjoyed.

Our Kitchen Assistant, Teresa, had handmade some post-it note holders to sell on the day, also to help raise funds.

It was a wonderful effort from the whole team to come together in order to support the cause, despite being unable to extend to the community. We were still successful in raising some money, which is yet to be counted, as donations are still coming in, but a massive thankyou to all who took part!

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Rum Reggae Fun

Residents enjoyed a fun-filled afternoon with rum cocktails for our reggae afternoon! Fun and laughter filled the room as we sang and enjoyed our home made cocktail concoctions together. It was lovely to enjoy a refreshing drink together after all this hot weather! 

World Chocolate Day

Residents enjoyed a fun filled day for world chocolate day this year with chocolate related activities taking place throughout the day. We explored the history of the chocolate bar and how the Cadbury's wrapper has changed throughout the years, followed by a chocolatey quiz and finally making our own chocolate fridge cake in the afternoon.

Residents enjoyed smashing and crushing digestive biscuits before adding raisins and marshmallows and pouring in plenty of melted chocolate! We even made a separate diabetic friendly one so that every resident could enjoy some.

Laughter and Smiles at Glebefields

Residents on our Memory Lane community enjoyed an afternoon filled with Abba and dancing on their new smart television! Laughter and smiles filled the room as we became the real 'Dancing queens' and sang our hearts out. Residents sat down afterwards for a cool drink and a cake to refresh after all of the activity.

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Beer Day

Residents, Bert, Victor and Tom thoroughly enjoyed a beer together in the sun this week for National Beer day. The weather was beautiful so we were lucky to be able to sit outside and Residents even requested to have their lunch outside.

After ice creams and plenty of cold drinks, the fun continued with a garden pub quiz and summer games. Residents were thrilled to be able to get out in the sun and said "Thank god we made the most of it before the rain again tomorrow!"

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Cake Competition

Resident, Carole and Activities Co-ordinator, Emily put their baking skills to the test to design and bake a cake 'Fit for the Queen' for the Barchester competition.

Carole previously had two pet Corgis, so was thrilled when she found out about the competition and immediately suggested that we made a Corgi cake. Preparations went ahead immediately as Emily and herself decided to design a tear and share cake with cupcakes as the base of the cake so that we could all easily share the cake after completion. Carole was assigned the role of 'chief assistant' and brought along her own Corgi ornament to each of the cake decorating sessions so that Emily and the other residents could use it for reference, making sure at all times that we paid extra attention to detail from the fur around his feet, to the roundness of his bottom!

We worked tirelessly over several days to ice the cake and were thrilled with the outcome and nervous yet excited to enter it into the competition. Such fun was had by all to create this Corgi masterpiece and we are keeping our fingers crossed for the announcement! By the end of the week Carole said “I’m glad to have finished finally, I’ve been dreaming about Corgis since we started! But I’m so pleased with the outcome I think we’ve done well.”

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.