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Melbourn Springs Care Home offers Residential care, Dementia care, Respite / Short stay.

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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.

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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 Melbourn Springs Care Home

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Mini Bus Excursion to Thriplow Daffodils

What a truly super week we have shared here at Melbourn Springs as we christened our home Minibus ‘Muriel’ for a delightful trip out together with our Activities Team - Denise and Siobhan.

Never mind Tiptoeing through the Tulips we have been Dancing in the Daffodils as our residents visited Thriplow to see the start of over 500,000 Daffodils flowering prior to the famous weekend event.

The sun was shining, spring has well and truly sprung and our resident Betty added, “Thank so much for organising this trip out - it really was absolutely delightful!”

Reminiscence Time

Here at Melbourn Springs our residents enjoyed an afternoon of reflection about the past and also brought along special items that enabled us to reminisce together. As you can imagine there certainly were a lot of interesting stories shared and everyone truly had a lovely afternoon.

Valentines Day 2022

Our residents and staff sure had lots of fun here at Melbourn Springs this Valentines Day and needless to say there was lots of laughter and chocolate too!

Balloon Tennis

Deuce! How on earth one got stuck to the ceiling is beyond us but all we do know is that Balloon Tennis is a sure is a lot of fun!

Chinese New Year Celebrations

A big congratulations to Phil our new Head Chef here at Melbourn Springs and our January employee of the month.

As you can see, Phil certainly did not disappoint this Chinese New Year. And he also freshly prepared a traditional Indian Thali meal for our special Resident of the Day too!

“Phil’s food is absolutely delicious and we are very lucky to have such a fine Chef here at the home” said resident Audrey.

We couldn’t agree more Audrey, we couldn’t agree more!

Craft Club - Decoupage Session

Decoupage was the art form our residents where exploring this week at Melbourn Springs Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the session with Jeannette adding, “This really is good fun - I just want to decoupage everything now!”