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.
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
The King is in the building!
Residents love their regular visits from Elvis and enjoy these live performances. Valerie and Elsie enjoyed it so much and were soon on their feet to have a little dance. Elvis charms the ladies as he presents each with flowers, these popular performances are a firm fixture on the homes life enrichment programme and everyone sings along!
Conversations by the Pond
We had a lovely time joining Henry Slator for an exciting virtual event to discuss his book ‘Conversations at the Pond’.
Henry had an unusual writing journey, which many of our residents found inspiring, he underwent chemotherapy in early 2020, which allowed him to rediscover his light-hearted outlook on life by imagining conversations with creatures in and around his large garden pond and adding buckets of fun.
The entertaining Conversations at the Pond, with its mass of colourful illustrations, took our residents along his journey, they felt inspired, cheered and loved hearing all about Henry’s experiences.
Easter cake competition
This is the Easter cake that our Chef Dana made for our residents at Easter. As you can see it’s fabulous and all completely edible and hand made. It tasted absolutely delicious. Fingers crossed we win!!
Easter celebrations
We had two Easter Parties, one on the Elderly Frail Unit and one on our Memory Lane unit. Ground Floor enjoyed an Easter Quiz and lots of laughter and on Memory Lane we had Easter Bingo which went down a treat! Memory Lane decorated table cloths and made lots of lovely hand painted eggs. Everyone had a lovely time.
Colouring Competition
Our local children’s nursery Rosedene, took part in the Barchester colouring competition. Our Residents chose the winning picture which was 4year old Oliver. We went along and presented them with a giant Bunny for the winner Olscar and took bags of chocolate eggs for the rest of the children. The children loved it and took turns congratulating Oscar, who as you can see was very shy!
Easter egg hunt
Residents and colleagues at Mount Vale welcomed the children from Rosedene Nursey to the home for their annual Easter egg hunt. They presented Elsie with cookies they had just baked for our Residents to enjoy before they hunted round the gardens furiously trying to find the chocolate. Resident watched from their Rooms and loved seeing the Children. Elizabeth loved chatting to the little ones.
Upcoming events
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.
Looking for a place to host a meeting?
Are you looking for a place to host a meeting? For more information on what Mount Vale has to offer get in touch with a member of our friendly team.
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 .....
Community Cafe
We extend a warm invitation for you to join us at our popular community cafe -
