Activities at Mount Vale Care Home
Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from PAT dogs, entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
Louise Chapman
Hi my name is Louise I have been working at Mount Vale since 2010. I am the activities co-ordinator, I am here to promote the wellbeing of our residents and ensure they have a variety of activities to get involved in. I love finding new creative ways to engage our residents and involve our local community.
I am a dementia champion for the home and enjoy continuing to learn and find more things I can do to help promote the wellbeing of our residents.
I love spending time with each individual getting to know them so I can add individual needs into our plans. I love building strong relationships with our residents and families.
I am a crafty person and can be found doing diamond arts and lots of other creative things when I am not at work. I love spending time with my family and going for walks with my dog Dottie and cuddling my cat Loki.
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 Mount Vale Care Home
Easter Party at Mount Vale
We had an Easter Party here at Mount Vale and invited Friends and Family. The Chefs made wonderful Cakes and we had lots of Sweet Treats. Everyone enjoyed a good giggle and played games. Harry and Mary along with their families really enjoyed spending quality time together celebrating Easter, especially the props!
Rosedene Nursery children visit Mount Vale
We had the nursery children from Rosedene Nursery come visit us over Easter to do an Easter Egg Hunt in our Gardens.
The children visit us weekly here for our ‘Reading corner’ and absolutely love coming in. Our Residents had great fun watching them scramble round looking for the eggs and checking out the insects!
We held a colouring competition and residents chose 3 pictures and awarded prizes, which thrilled the children.
A Visit from Jack
Once again we had ‘Jack’ come to visit us here at Mount Vale. Jack is one of many therapy dogs from ‘Therapy dogs nationwide’. Jack was a huge hit with our residents and sat very patiently while everyone game him cuddles.
Therapy dogs have been proven to improve general health and wellbeing, movement and coordination which is why we include them into our activity schedules here at Mount Vale. We also have Bambi who comes into work with Becky, our Activities Coordinator, so all of our residents are familiar with her and look forward to her visits.
Happy Birthday Brenda!
Brenda is celebrating her 90th Birthday today. Brenda was thrilled with her cake and gifts and enjoyed all Staff and Residents singing Happy Birthday to her. Brenda is enjoying all of the attention and is looking forward to Birthday Drinks this afternoon along with her friends.
A visit from South Otterington School Children
Today we have had our weekly visit from the South Otterington School children. Our residents really enjoy these visits and enjoy lots of different activities while they are here. The children really look forward to coming and are very inquisitive!
A touch of silver
We had ‘A touch of silver’ visit us here at Mount Vale. They are a Quartet formed from Northallerton Silver Band who have played to us here before. Our Residents enjoyed an afternoon of gentle music from old songs to new. Everyone had a lovely afternoon.
Upcoming events
Professionals Lunch
Join us for a light lunch and network with other local professionals.
Countdown to Christmas
Counting down the days to Christmas with a fun filled month ahead and we extend a warm invitation for you to join us - all welcome.
Merry Christmas!
Could you be a Volunteer?
Do you have any spare time and could make a difference? If you are interested in Volunteering we'd love to hear from you.
Community Cafe
We extend a warm invitation for you to join us at our popular community cafe -
Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
Calling all emergency personnel - come and take a break with us! There may be a cake or two available .....
