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
Armchair Exercise
Residents love to keep active and engaged and one way in which we continue to support this is through active seated games, which promote fun, laughter and exercise without participants thinking it's just exercise.
Activities like this aid cognitive functioning, movement and muscle memory. These activities feature regularly in our activity planner to enable us to promote activities that benefit mind, body and soul.
The Magic Table
Residents at Hollyfields have been engaging regularly with the Magic Table, which provides a multi-sensory and fun-filled experience for all. The games are designed to stimulate the mind and help improve cognitive impairment. It is always a popular activity amongst our residents.
Christmas Has Come!
Santa came to see the residents and staff at Hollyfields and Ivy House. Usually, Santa would visit residents in their rooms and communal areas of the home, but due to current restrictions, Santa made his way into the grounds and managed to visit most of those who wanted to see him. Santa rang his bell for everyone to hear and those who couldn't sit outside waved from the windows.
Chocolate Bouquets
During the pandemic, the support from our local community has been fantastic, and we've had support from all over. We wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us, so we delivered handmade chocolate bouquets to everyone who helped us. There are so many of you to thank and we hope to continue our friendships into and throughout 2021.
Halloween Preparations
At Hollyfields, residents have been enjoying arts and craft sessions for Halloween, carving pumpkins that were donated by our local Morrisons Ssuperstore in Kidderminster. The store was happy to help with donations to assist with delivering both art and reminiscence activities to aid activity provision.
Pen Pals
Residents at Hollyfields and Ivy House received letters from their pen pals at Franche Community Primary School, which were welcomed by all.
Residents really enjoyed have their letters read and listening to what the children had been up to during lockdown.
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.
