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.
Kaylee White
Hi, my name is Kaylee and I joined the Hollyfields care team in February 2021. I love getting to know our residents and I'm extremely passionate about their continued wellbeing and life enrichment through tailored activities. I became part of the Activities team to develop more in this area and expand the type of fulfilling activities and events we provide.
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
A Relaxing Pamper Session
Today at Hollyfields we have had the salon open for the ladies and gents who wanted a nice fresh look. Kim has been great with the residents today listening to their requests from hair and nails, our residents enjoyed a chat with a cup of tea whilst having a relaxing hand massage with special massage oils everybody felt relaxed. We hold pamper sessions often if that is something you would like your loved ones to be involved in.
Fitness Friday
Every Friday we hold a fitness class, instructor Lucy comes to the home every 2 weeks on a Friday and holds a fitness session for one hour. Residents get to use all the muscles that are not being used as much anymore. Our residents really enjoy the sessions it brings lots of joy and happiness to their day. Lucy gets the residents warmed up with some light exercises. Just a few things Lucy likes to do to make sure the residents are fully engaged is lots of ball games which is great for the residents coordination, elastic bands and punching/kicking the soft pads which is great for mobility to strengthen up the muscles. We find at Hollyfields the fitness sessions are great for our residents family members also get to join in with their loved ones.
Christmas at Hollyfields
Christmas at Hollyfields our residents enjoyed live entertainment by a special guest singer Pippa everyone enjoyed a beautiful lunch festive celebrations all around. We took some residents outside to have a look at our Christmas lights they really liked seeing the festive decorations.
We took half of our residents to our local café for a Christmas lunch which they really enjoyed, they enjoyed pulling crackers with a glass of prosecco. We like to go to cosyJos café regular as they cater for our residents.
Crafting with Residents
Our resident John really enjoyed painting and crafting poppies for remembrance day he picked up a paint brush which he hadn’t done in years he painted the middle part of the flower and crunched up tissue paper to design the poppy.
Sheila loved our knew crocheted fiddle blankets which we had kindly been donated by crafting for communities.
Pub Lunch
We've been making the most of our minibus to get out and about to local landmarks, shopping centres, garden centres and more over the last few weeks. Today some of our residents choose to head to the local pub for lunch.
Outings are an important part of our activities calendar which is designed with resident input and aims to create happy memories for everyone who lives at Hollyfields.
Dog Therapy
Animal therapy is one of the cornerstones of our life enrichment programme at Hollyfields and we love having new animals visit on a regular basis.
Whilst we have regular visits from PAT dogs, therapy donkeys and trainee guide dogs, it is always wonderful when our team bring in their own pets. This week we had a visit from an adorable chihuahua who belongs to one of our carers.
Upcoming events
November Open Day - All Welcome
We warmly welcome you to join us for our homes open day event on Saturday 23rd November. Come and meet our manager, staff and wonderful residents.
Dance Performance
Join us on 23rd November at our Open Day for a dance performance by 'Triple Threat Productions' from 11am. All Welcome!
Recycled Teenagers Entertain
Please join us on 23rd November for our Open Day performance from 'The Recycled Teenagers' come and sing the afternoon away with friends from 2pm. All Welcome!
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
