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
Preparing for Open Weekend
We are holding our Open Weekend on 18th June, which inlcudes a flower festival and a history of the Mount. We did some flower arranging to ensure that the home is as warm and welcoming as it can possibly be.
Supporting Dementia friendly Yorkshire
Health Education England has funded training for care home staff enabling them to become facilitators in person centered Dementia Care. The training from Bradford School of Dementia studies is an intensive short course that equips the facilitator to deliver training to the workforce. Dementia is one of the biggest health and care challenges we currently face and this is set to increase, therefore it is vital that care staff have the knowledge and skills to support those with this condition.
This work is a collaboration with HEE working across Yorkshire and Humber, Bradford university and Skills for Care and with support from vale of York CCG, City of York Council and North Yorkshire County Council. The successful cohort received their certificate from Kay Ford Regional Clinical Skills Advisor (HEE YH ) and Clare Mason the course trainer.
Aquafinatic Pet Therapy
We have Aquafinatic Pet Therapy come into the home every month. The residents really benefit from these visits and really enjoy the interaction with all the different Pets.
Lamb petting
Clarrie, a former employee, recently brought in her pet Lamb from her farm. Our residents loved seeing Clarrie and her lamb, Blackie, so much so that they will be visiting again in a few weeks!
Nutrition Week at Mount Vale
We recently celebrated Nutrion Week here at Mount Vale with an afternoon tea party! Our head chef made lots of lovely food for the afternoon which was suitable for those on a modified diet as well!
Art Exhibition at Mount Vale
We recently had an Art Exhibition which showcased art from local artists and even some of our residents. This was a huge success and we had lots of local artists show their work and had lots of visitors come into the Exhibition to view and buy their work.
We had all the Art work up the stairs and made full use of our function rooms.
Richard Gilmore Douglas is a well known artist in the Methodist community, known best for his art work on John Wesley. Richard is a resident in the home. Richard had his picture taken for the newspaper and enjoyed displaying his work for visitors to see.
Kathleen Frier is a resident in the home. Kathleen does cross stitching art work. After she showed us her wonderful work we decided we just had to have it displayed in our Exhibition.
David Hughes is also a resident at the home. His sister Ann had come to stay the weekend as she was interested in viewing and displaying in our Art Exhibition. This photo shows the two stood by her work in the reception area of our home.
The mayor came to visit our Art Exhibition. We had our photo taken with him at the top of the staircase.
Ann, David Hughes’s sister displayed her art work in our reception area. Ann used to be a welder and created many fantastic and contemporary pieces of work in materials such as Metal and Wood. Ann also painted pictures in various styles. It was a pleasure to display her work.
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 .....
