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
Baking at Hollyfields
Hollyfields' residents enjoyed a morning of baking tasty treats in the activities room. Residents said that they particularly liked licking the bowl, as it reminded them of their childhood days.
Velcro Darts
Residents enjoyed a morning of active games with inflatable Velcro darts. The competition was on when residents saw what others were scoring and wanted to beat them.
Zoolab
Residents were visited today by Zoolab, who brought with them a selection of reptiles and creepy-crawlies. From mice and snakes to scorpions and millipedes. Residents enjoyed holding the animals and feeling the different textures, in addition to learning all about them.
BBC Visit
The BBC joined Hollyfields when the children from Franche Primary school, who are part of our pen-pal scheme, joined us to meet their resident pen-pal and be presented with Christmas cards and gifts. It was quite emotional to witness residents engaging so well with the children and seeing the smiles on their faces. The segment will be aired on BBC Breakfast on Boxing Day and on BBC Radio 4.
We also received emails from other schools across the country, and as far as Australia and Switzerland, asking how they could set up their own pen-pal projects.
You can watch the full segment by clicking here.
Winter Newsletter
Please click here to view the winter edition of the Hollyfields Herald.
A Man's Best Friend
PAT dog, Nellie, visits Hollyfields fortnightly to see the residents, have a good old fuss made of her and get taken for walks around the gardens. Arthur loves dogs and said he really enjoys Nellies' visits.
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.
