Activities at Moreton Hill Care Home
Our home is always full of life, and we can thank our wonderful Activities Coordinators for this. Dedication to creating a unique and interesting activities programme is what sets us apart from other homes. We always take into consideration that some people would prefer to pursue their own interests, which is why our team strive to incorporative activities that cater to a wide range of tastes and hobbies. Our trips out are always fun and exciting as well, and residents are guaranteed to return with stories to tell their loved ones!
Jackie Chillingworth
Hello. I am Jackie, the Lead Activity Co-Ordinator at Moreton Hill. I have worked for Barchester for over 10 years. Now, together with my team and the staff at our beautiful home, our aim is to help all residents live life to the best they can by bringing meaningful and enriching activities into their lives.
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 Moreton Hill Care Home
Spring Bulbs
Here are Moira and Marion, both keen gardeners, getting to work in our beautiful courtyard and planting out some spring bulbs. All the bulbs were chosen by our residents, a mix of tulips, hyacinths, crocus and daffodils. We are hoping for a magnificent spring display in 2021. It’s something for us all to look forward to.
Birthday Celebrations
We love to celebrate birthdays and special events at Moreton Hill. On birthdays, each resident enjoys a cake made by our chef and we usually have a glass or two of fizz when we sing happy birthday!
Rita and Derek both recently celebrated their birthdays and although their families couldn’t come into our home and had to visit outdoors, we made sure that they both had a lovely day.
Book Club
We hold a monthly residents’ meeting where everyone has the chance to put forward ideas for new activities. In September, Gwen suggested we start a book club. We chose our book of short stories by Roald Dahl and every other week we meet to read and discuss one of the stories with the group.
Reading aloud helps anyone with visual impairment. The club has been a huge success and we have already decided that our next book will be Richard Osman’s latest novel, ‘The Thursday Murder Club’. We can’t wait to get stuck in!
Sunset at Moreton Hill
The sunsets we see from many of the bedrooms and outdoor spaces here at Moreton Hill are spectacular and must be up there with the best in the county.
Watching the sun go down over the River Severn and the Forest of Dean is a wonderful way to relax and feel the peace and tranquillity of our wonderful home at the end of the day. .
Green Fingers
We are lucky enough to have a beautiful courtyard and plenty of outdoor space. Any of our residents or staff members can get involved in the running of the garden.
Here is Eddie, our Head Gardener, with Joan, planting out one of our tubs with herbs and sensory plants. In this one, we have put mint, coriander, purple sage and lemon balm, which are all beautiful smelling herbs to be enjoyed by everyone and for our chef to use in the kitchen.
Harvest Festival
We had our own Harvest Festival here at Moreton Hill with poetry, songs, praise and prayer, and everyone in the home was invited to join in.
We picked as much produce as we could from our gardens – plums, blackberries, elderberries, apples and fresh herbs, and staff and friends donated jams, corn, beans and tomatoes.
Our residents helped to choose the hymns and prayers and our creative writing group, led by Moira, our Resident Ambassador, wrote a beautiful harvest poem, which she read out at the service.
