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
Celebrating Earth Day
Residents and staff at Mount Vale Care Home in Northallerton celebrated Earth day with a healthy nature stroll in their beautiful grounds. Residents were delighted to see the new growth of leaves and flowers blooming.
To add to their delight we found a lovely family of rabbits. We spoke about caring for the earth and many residents commented that they used to recycle long before it became “Fashionable”.
People reused brown paper bags, clothing was passed onto others. Memories of “waste not want not”, also meant that the planet was cared for.
Football Fever
Staff and residents have been gripped by football fever as they have a visit from Middleborough Football club Memorabilia Tour. Mount Vale Care Home in Northallerton hosted a football get together, where the residents were able to look over the past of Middleborough Football Team, Residents at the home have been looking forward to their visit. Seeing the many years of Boro artefacts that mean the world to the fans. A variety of different programs from the different matches full of all the best players. They were able to see the top and cap Alan Peacock wore when winning for England in 1962, been able to be so close to an amazing part of history brought tears to some eyes.
Come sing!
Residents across our homes and hospitals had a fantastic time with vocal coach Dan Cooper from Biiah as he led an amazing sing-a-long session for residents to enjoy. Residents who joined the event were able to learn different techniques as they sang the famous ‘I Can See Clearly Now’ by Jimmy Cliff and ‘Here Comes the Sun’ by The Beatles. Across our homes there were smiles and laugher all around. The session was such a success and was great for the mind, body and soul.
Inside the Factory
We had a brilliant time across our services with Harrogate Skills 4 Living as they took us on a wonderful virtual visit to their Harrogate Chocolate Factory.
Residents were thrilled to discover details about the chocolate-making process and the fascinating journey from bean to bar, all while enjoying some delicious sweet treats.
The Factory aims to employ people with learning disabilities and autism, involving them in all parts of the process, from sorting and roasting the beans to packaging and sales. The experience was truly enjoyed by all who joined this event.
Beat the Clock
We continue to celebrate a varied life enrichment programme and across our services we linked up with other Barchester care homes and hospitals up and down the country for some interactive Beat the Clock games.
Our residents truly enjoyed solving word puzzles, conundrums and mathematical problems as part of Barchester’s very own game show series.
Everyone who joined had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.
Celebrating Spring in the garden
The days are brightening up and all around our lovely Care Home flowers and new life is stirring. Our residents have been wishing to get out into the grounds, and with the weather conditions a little better, they rugged up warm and did a spot of gardening. We were very lucky to have had two beautiful miniature Apple trees donated to us by our lovely nurse Liza.
What a lovely time we had coming together and planting the trees. So much knowledge about planting was shared from our residents, who spoke fondly of their gardens, working in agricultural based industries and also some ideas of what to do with the apples the tree produces.
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 .....
