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
Royal Parks London
Across our services our residents have enjoyed a wonderful live virtual talk about starlings, one of the UK’s most gregarious birds, hosted by Rachel Dowse from The Royal Parks London.
Rachel examined our long history with this bird and the importance of common species to our lives. Our residents had the opportunity to find out more about the great murmuration and why we need to pay special attention to these beauties before it's too late.
The virtual experience was truly enjoyed by all.
103rd birthday celebrations
Celebrations have been in full swing at Mount Vale Care Home, as one of its residents reaches beyond her centenary in style. Marian Macey was joined by staff and other residents as she received recognition of reaching 103 years. A celebration was held at the home and residents enjoyed a special birthday cake made by the home’s chef Dana Narkeviciene. Paul Cornfoot, Deputy Mayor of Northallerton and Marian’s family attended th the celebrations, bringing gifts of flowers/
Mount Vale's Christmas Party
This year's Christmas Party has been brilliant! Residents have enjoyed spending time together. We all ate, drank and were very merry! There was lots of singing too! We can't wait for the big day now.
Christine Celebrates 10 Years with Barchester
We celebrated Christine’s 10 years of service with Barchester this week. Christine was presented with a £250.00 shopping voucher, a long service pin and flowers from our general manager Helen Lewis.
Christine is one of our nurses here at mount vale. Christine is a very respected nurse and loved by everyone.
The bells ring out at Mount Vale
The bells rang out at Mount Vale as Northallerton Hand Bell Ringers hosted their first concert of the year for our Residents and their families and friends. Staff and residents at Barchester’s Mount Vale Care Home, in Northallerton, got in the Christmas spirit by inviting families and friends to come and join in with the Bell Ringers to sing along with some festive Christmas favourites.
There was mulled wine and mince pies all prepared by Head Chef, Danny to get everyone feeling festive.
'Tis the season to be jolly
Barchester’s Mount Vale care home, in Northallerton got in the Christmas spirit by holding their Christmas Fair for residents, their families and the local community. There was huge excitement at Mount Vale as Santa and his reindeers came by to visit the event ahead of their big night delivering presents on Christmas Eve.- General Manager, Helen Lewis said: “Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year and our fantastic residents love to get festive so we’ve pulled out all the stops. It is so lovely to see them all getting into the Christmas spirit. We had lots of families and friends from the local community visit to see the reindeers especially”
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 .....
