Activities at Hollyfields Care Home
Our Activities programme is formulated using resident requests and feedback from resident meetings. Residents are involved in planning the programme with things they they would like to do throughout the year. There is a mixture of activities that take place including both group and 1-1 engagement. Residents at Hollyfields particularly enjoy movement to music activities enabling them to increase their level of physical abilities and have fun at the same time, whilst others enjoy musical singalongs and food based activities throughout the week.
We have a mini bus that enables us to reconnect our residents with their community in ways that suite themselves as individuals. This can be achieved by visiting local farms, Georgian towns, local attractions and even the local public house for lunch with friends. Hollyfields have a great relationship with their local community and have visits from local organisations such as The Wyre Community Land Trust and are currently undertaking a 12 week funded project from Arts Etc. Residents at Hollyfields enjoy Pet Therapy visits from their pet rabbit 'Thumper' and like to help clean and feed him daily. Relatives can be encouraged to join us for activities and again are very supportive with delivering theme days and fundraising events within the home.
Kayleigh White
Kayleigh joined the Hollyfields care team in February 2021. She's a a very conscientious young lady, who is passionate about the wellbeing of all our residents.
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 Hollyfields Care Home
Fathers Day
Happy father’s day from our home to yours.
Here is to all the wonderful men in our lives
Thank you all for being you!
Our residents and relatives had a lovely day celebrating fathers day with the most important men in our lives. Thank you also for all the dad’s who worked today to make the day special for our residents.
National Fish & Chip Day
Today we had the pleasure of taking our residents out to Merchant's in Bewdley, the staff went above and beyond for us thank you! Our food was delicious and fresh!
It was lovely hearing our residents talk about past memories.
We then took a stroll along the river reminiscing about the old buildings and surroundings.
This afternoon myself (Kaylee) enjoyed having 1-1 time with Mrs.Turner, she was showing me how to arrange flowers and talking about all the flower shows she used to attend.
Trip to Bewdley
Our staff always go above and beyond. On our day trip to Bewdley today, care support worker Sue joined us on her day off to help support our residents.
Our residents enjoyed a lovely lunch and a wonderful visit along the river. It was a beautiful day filled with laughter and joy. Thank you, Sue, for making this outing even more special!
Bewdley trip
Getting out and about is so important for our mental well-being.
We are passionate about providing our residents the support they require to live meaningful lives and enjoy their time with us.
So today, before the rain came, we had a trip to Bewdley. Most of our residents are from around the area and would have spent many beautiful days out here. It was so nice to hear their memories and of course we always welcome family members to join us.
Seeing Alan interact with his wife outside of the home as they would have, warms our hearts. It was also great to hear their fond memories and Alan even agreed to having a cheeky go and finding a geocache (if you know, you know:))!
We hope you have all have a wonderful day! Never let the rain spoil it. As Mavis quite rightly said, it’s only a bit of water! It won’t hurt me.
Celebrating 200 years of Cadbury
Here at Hollyfields & Ivy house we Celebrated 200 years of Cadbury's, Cadburys donated all Barchester homes a special 200th Anniversary chocolate box to share with our residents. we indulged in chocolates both old and new. Residents shared their chocolate memories and favourites. What's yours?
The live virtual event brought back nostalgia with old adverts from years past. It was lovely to hear stories from our residents and to hear how some used to have worked for Cadburys.
VE Day
Here at Hollyfields our residents really thrive on live entertainment. Music really helps our residents recall memories of days gone by. VE day holds many memories for them and celebrating it is close to their heart. To make the day special we had the D Day Dollies perform for us. As they sang songs, dressed in wartime feel attire, you could really feel the atmosphere in the room rise and they residents and staff enjoy singing and dancing along. It is so wonderful to listen to their stories and some even cried happy tears.
