Activities at Iris Court Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life. Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators will bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Natalie Robinson
Hello, I'm Natalie, and for nearly five enriching years, I've dedicated myself to the role of an activity coordinator. My passion lies in understanding the unique interests of each individual under our care. At Iris Court, I strive to craft activities tailored to the preferences of our residents, ensuring no one ever feels socially isolated. Whether someone wants to participate minimally or fully immerse themselves, my goal remains constant: fostering a sense of community and joy in every moment.
Join me as we embark on this journey of connection, laughter, and shared experiences. Together, let's create cherished memories that will illuminate the path ahead. Welcome to Iris Court, where every day holds the promise of something special.
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 Iris Court Care Home
Chinese New Year Celebraations
Staff and residents at Iris Court welcomed in the Year of the Snake with a day of celebrations and activities.
Inspired by Chinese culture and traditions, lucky red envelopes were exchanged and the home was decorated with hanging red lanterns. Residents learnt all about the traditions and superstitions of Chinese New Year. Head chef Jinesh cooked up an oriental feast for lunch and residents enjoyed the delicious food washed down with pots of Chinese tea.
Our residents thoroughly enjoyed the day with many saying: “I loved the music, the vibrant costumes and learning about the Chinese Zodiac animal traits. We found out that the Snake is the sixth animal in the 12 year cycle of the Chinese zodiac and is associated with wisdom, knowledge, intuition, creativity and good luck. I find it fascinating to learn all about different traditions.”
Our varied life enrichment programme at Iris Court keeps residents active, and provides a daily choice of engaging physical, mental and spiritual activities tailored to residents’ interests and abilities.
Hitchin Museum Visit
Iris Court Visited Hitchin Museum, where plenty of fun was had.
For our residents being able to get out in the community and enjoy various locations and trips out is of huge importance to them and us and being able to continue to do the things we love and keeping our own identity!. Hitchin Museum was a specially interesting and reminiscent location for our residents at Iris Court. Hitchin Museum boats of its heritage and culture , showcasing items from museums that no longer stand in the area, and items of history from those who lived and worked many years ago in the area reminding us of our elder family members and reminiscing on the past growing up with these memories!.
Regular trips to local attractions, areas of natural beauty and other excursions are important parts of our life enrichment program and feature often on our resident-led activity planners.
Wellness Open Day At Iris Court
Iris Court had a Fantastic day at our Wellness Open Day this weekend!.
With January being the month for being mindful, focusing on health and enjoying plenty of good healthy foods we thought we would invite the community in for the day to join us with just that!.
We invited a new contact of Iris Court Neelam in who specialised in teaching yoga, mindfulness, and meditation in to kick start the day with an exercise class for all residents and families welcomed to join in for the morning, everyone at Iris Court enjoyed Neelam's energy and wealth of experience and we look forward to seeing him back again at Iris Court!. For the ladies who enjoy a pamper we had Beautanix Skincare in offering mini pampering treatments such a mini facials, massages and reflexology which our ladies loved!. Enjoyed by finishing the afternoon off with a wonderful selection of healthy homemade nibbles, ginger shots and smoothies whilst having a dance to one of our favourite at Iris Court Ollie!.
Ensuring that we host events that relatives and friends can join is very important to us here at Iris Court and we look forward to our next event to open our doors to the local community again.
Baking Club
Dementia Cafe
Iris Court Care Home hosted their first Dementia Community Café of 2025!.
The Dementia Community Café started in 2024 to welcome the community, families into Iris Court where they could join in with our morning activity, and have access to guest speakers from various organisations and charities who all work extremely hard on being able to live well with dementia wherever you may be in the community, or simply to attend to learn more regarding how to live well with dementia and some company for the morning!.
For this mornings session we had our wonderful Emma & John from the Alzheimer's society, Emily from Herts Independent Living Services, and Roxanne from Portsmill GP surgery come in to help us with our Fabulously Fun Interactive Throughout the Decades Quiz. and be on hand to talk to all visitors and residents of Iris Court this morning!.
Our Dementia Cafes are re-occurring every second Thursday of the month and we welcome all to come along and join us for the morning by registering your interest at the home.
At Iris Court we love hosting events that we can open up to our relatives, friends and the wider community. Life at Iris Court is about being part of the local community and enjoying life long hobbies whilst also exploring new experiences.
Iris Courts Christmas Celebrations
Iris Court Celebrated Christmas in Style this year!.
Kicking off the Christmas celebrations we invited our opened our doors to families , friends and local community to join us for our Christmas Party. Our amazing team performed their own rendition of Hansel and Gretel which definitely provided lots of laughs and fun for everyone involved and plenty of festive cheer!.
For our Christmas Party at Iris Court we had a special request from one of our residents for us to join him in dressing for the occasion allowing the team to dress to impress with Bow ties, Suits and Evening dresses definitely set the mood for a good old fashioned party, with plenty of dancing, cocktails and laughter spent with everyone together and creating new memories!.
At Iris Court we love opening our home up and hosting events that friends and family can join us for. Shared experiences are the best experiences and we ensure that our residents remain connected with their loved ones whilst they live with us.
Upcoming events
Celebrate 1 year Of Care and Support
Celebrate our One Year Milestone with us for the afternoon, with Cllr Daniel Allen in attendance, live music and refreshments for the afternoon
Carers Cafe
Come along or meet with friends over light refreshments, hear from guest speakers or join the mornings entertainment.
Ladies Who Latte
Come alone or join us with a friend to join us for a light lunch, build friendships and enjoy some time at Iris Court
Iris Court's Tot's Club
Join us for our monthly Baby and Toddler Group, meet Bluey and Friends whilst enjoying light refreshments and enjoy time with our residents during the morning.
