Activities at Melbourn Springs Care Home
Ensuring that our social events offer fun and adventure is a major focus of the ethos of our home; it’s important that those we support can enjoy an active and social lifestyle. Of course, there will always be those who prefer peace and quiet, and in these instances, a cup of tea and a chat will always be welcomed.
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 Melbourn Springs Care Home
National Carers Week
To mark National Carers week at Melbourn Springs thank you cards were presented by our General Manager Karen on behalf of our CEO Dr Pete Calveley and Director of Nursing - Julia Atherton. All of our team also received a box of delicious Lindt Chocolates too which went down a storm as you can imagine!
Karen says, "We are so proud of our wonderful care team for the outstanding care that they provide every single day to our residents at Melbourn Springs - thank you so much for everything that you do and happy National Carers week!
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Planting and tending to our Gardens
Gardening is always big on the agenda at Melbourn Springs and our residents love to help Rob our Head of Maintenance plant the Summer Perennials, tend to the beautiful Hanging Baskets and look after our Wild Flower Gardens too!
Twiddle Muffs from Royston Pasque Flowers W.I
A huge thank you to North Herts District Councillor Jean Green and Joyce Goodall from the Royston Pasque Flowers W.I for your kind donation of Twiddle Muffs for our Elstar Memory Lane Dementia Community.
It really was so kind of you and our residents are very taken by them already!
Look forward to welcoming you again properly soon ladies and thank you once again from all of the team and residents here at Melbourn Springs.
Quoits and Sunshine
Nothing like a game of Quoits in the beautiful sunshine. There were certainly some interesting throwing methods which had us all in fits of laughter. Huge well done to Vera though with a winning score of 35!!!
The Crown
Our residents are thoroughly enjoying watching the Crown together each week and it certainly has brought back a lot of memories to share – especially over a fresh Cream Éclair or two!
Music Therapy with Together in Sound
What a perfect way to mark Dementia Awareness week as we welcomed Orla from Together in Sound Music Therapy and Anglia Ruskin University to our very first session together at Melbourn Springs. Up until now the sessions have been online so this truly was a very special moment.
The aim of the sessions is to bring the power of music to those living with dementia and together the focus is on joint music-making and listening - with the goal of supporting communication, relationships, and increasing quality of life through a collaborative group process.
We all absolutely loved our first session Orla and really cannot wait for next week!
Upcoming events
Christmas Fayre
Come and join us at Melbourn Springs as we get into the Christmas Spirit with our Christmas Fayre. There will be Mulled Wine, Stalls and a Raffle as well as hot/cold refreshments.
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.
