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
BBC Music Day
Staff, residents and visitors got together for a day of music and singing to celebrate BBC Music Day. There was live vocals from David Lawrence and reminiscence gun with Ellie from Musical Moments.
Getting to Know Me
Residents and staff sat down today for a different take on the classic board game ‘Snakes & Ladders’. The game is called ‘Getting to Know Me’ and is part of the Dementia 10-60-06 accreditation at Barchester.
Instead of up the ladders and snakes we drift up in a balloon and go down in with anchors. Once the dice was rolled, the colour that is landed on will correspond to a coloured card that asks a simple question about the person, for example: ‘What name do you prefer to be known as?’ or ‘What makes you happy?’.
Staff and residents shared information and stories about themselves. All the information from the game will then be added to the residents own personalised ‘Getting to Know Me Book’ which is used as a live document to record new memories they make whilst living at Hollyfields.
Neigh-Ver Too Old
We spend time horsin' around recently, when Rupert the horse came to visit. Residents, staff & relatives were pleasantly surprised to see their new saddled friend from BE-Equine roaming around the home and visiting people in their own rooms.
Springtime Walk
Residents at Hollyfields enjoy morning walks in the gardens and grounds. They love taking in the fresh air, enjoying a cup of tea and picking the daffodils.
Sensory Fun
Residents at Hollyfields enjoyed a lovely morning of sensory stimulation whilst listening to their favourite music on their personalised headsets. Lights, projections and musical fun for all!
Arts & Crafts
A morning of seasonal arts and crafts started at Hollyfields as part of our plan to design a feature that will be displayed as part of the pen pal scheme. Residents, staff and relatives enjoyed getting stuck in and messy.
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.
