Activities at Meadowbeck Care Home
Activities are the cornerstone of a wholesome home experience and our Activities Coordinators are always putting their creative minds to the test by organising new and exciting social events for residents to partake in. Of course, we take into account the likes and dislikes of those we support, so if someone doesn’t feel like trying something new, there will always be something on offer to reflect their personal interests. For the people who may just prefer some peace and quiet instead, we also offer one-to-one time that can be enjoyed with a nice cup of coffee or just a simple chat – whatever they desire.
Tina Holmes
Hi, I’m Tina, and I am the Activities Coordinator here at Meadowbeck.
I began working at the home as a Care Assistant in 1999. In 2014, I changed my role to Social Support Worker, which I enjoyed, as it involved supporting residents at Meadowbeck in their daily lifestyles.
I then became the Activities Coordinator in May 2017. I love working with our residents and getting to know them and their families. In addition to supporting them maintain an active lifestyle I always ensure to personally get to know each resident when they move in with us to support them in the continuation of any hobbies or interests the might have.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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 Meadowbeck Care Home
The Wallace Collection
Residents across our services had a lovely time joining Emily and Marie-Therese from the Wallace Collection, for a virtual introduction to Reubens' Rainbow Landscape.
Residents truly enjoyed the sensory walk through one of the museum’s most famous landscape paintings.
Everyone who joined had a wonderful experience and can’t wait to put their creative skills to the test by painting some landscapes of our their in the coming days!
Kindness is contagious at Meadowbeck
Staff and residents at Meadowbeck had a wonderful time feeling the love on World Kindness Day, which took place on November 13.
The staff and residents got into the spirit of the day, making lots of kind gestures, such as gifting lavender bags to sixth form students of Archbishops Holgate school, as well as to their loved ones and staff, paying compliments to each other, eating lunch with someone new, holding the door open for those behind you. They proved that being kind to each other really does make the world a better place.
Bake off for National Apple Day
Whether you’re a golden delicious, pink lady, or granny smith fan National Apple Day, celebrated on October 21st, is the perfect day for you. And it was certainly a day of fun-filled apple baking for the staff and residents at Meadowbeck.
To mark the celebration of the nation’s crisp juicy fruit, residents got together for a bake off as they came up with idea to bake anything that involved apples, they decided to bake apple pies, apple tart and an apple crumble, There was much fun to be had taking part in showing off their creative skills with their delicious bakes.
Musical Duo
We were delighted to welcome back Sarah with her flute, playing a range of old and new songs, including 'Little April Shower' from Disney's Bambi and the Aria from 'Suite Antique'. Plenty of singalongs were enjoyed too, including 'Can't help falling in love with you'.
Sarah was also joined by Beth with her cello, introducing her to everyone for the first time and was equally enjoyed, with some expressing how wonderful it was to have a cellist come and play!
Together, they played a smaller range of duets for our residents to enjoy: 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Rewrite the Stars'. After the performance, one of our ladies shared with us of her memories of herself playing the cello alongside her dad, who played the piano.
Pizza & a Pint....
This evening ‘The Meadowbeck Inn’ opened to its customers as we hosted our Pizza &a Pint night. Residents, families and friends enjoyed a selection of beverages accompanied with a slice of pizza (or two).
The evening was a great success with lots of hearty laughter as we chatted about everything and anything, and the bar was kept busy with Olwyn been the perfect barmaid.
This was a great opportunity for Olwyn to celebrate her birthday with friends around her as we surprised her with a delicious birthday cake made by our Chef. What a great evening enjoyed by all!
Harvest Service
Residents, families and friends gathered together to join our Harvest Festival service, hosted by Father Bill from St Aelreds R C church who led the service, joined by Catherine playing her guitar with everyone singing along to Harvest Hymns.
It was wonderful to be joined by other members of the congregation from St Aelreds church and also Jan Noble and Julie Wainwright from St Thomas church. We had beautiful readings from the sixth form students from Archbishops Holgate School, we had a lovely afternoon as we finished off with a friendly catch up over tea and biscuits.
We would like to say a big thank you for all your support and donations of non-perishable foods who we will be donating to our local food bank.
Upcoming events
Come and take a break on us! - Emergency Services
Come and take a break on us! We extend a warm invitation to all emergency service personnel to pop in on your break as there may be a cake or two available....
