Activities at Rivermead Care Home
We all know that keeping active is important. We have created a wonderful culture within the home and we work together to give residents the best possible experience. We are here to ensure that residents enjoy an environment that is both stimulating and socially active. We ensure the team knows each residents' preferences, so that we can deliver a person-centered programme of events and activities. Essential to our homely feel is the strong relationships of trust we build with residents and their families and friends. The home also has its very own minibus for our numerous outings for coffee and shopping, which residents love.
Nicola Bedford
Hi, My name is Nicola and I am the activity coordinator for Rivermead. I plan and deliver a range of interactive and stimulating activities throughout the week for all the residents.
We focus our planning through person centred care, meaning the activities we deliver are tailored to each of the residents individual choice and interests.
It’s a very rewarding job role to be in, seeing the residents enjoy their lives to the best of their abilities and enhancing their experiences, building and maintaining friendships and supporting their wellbeing.
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 Rivermead Care Home
Home host best dressed pet competition!
Yes, put your paws together and give a warm welcome to Rivermead’s festive competition, launched today! Please send us photographs of your pets in their best festive outfits. It could be your kitten in a Christmas kilt, your pet piglet in a blanket, the old dog with reindeer antlers or of course your horse dressed as Father Christmas! Give your imagination free rein and have some fun, take a good picture and send it to rivermead.activities@barchester.com
Our residents will be judging the results on Wednesday 22nd December and the prize is a Christmas HAMPER! Good Luck, and we look forward to perusing your perfect pet pix!
Gift from Malton WII
Christmas is a special time of togetherness and celebration, and this year the Rivermead dining tables will look very well decorated thanks to the imaginative ladies of Malton WI who have made for our home seven beautiful, colourful table settings. As our residents tuck Into their turkey with all the trimmings, the flaming pudding and mince pies, the tables will look resplendent with their WI yellow roses, evergreens and candles! Thank you for your kind thoughts, Ladies of #Maltonwi!
Trip to Castle Howard
Today memory Lane had an absolutely fabulous day out at Castle Howard’s Christmas house, enjoyed by Vera, Brenda, Joan and Barbara.
Rivermead attended a couple of weeks ago and it was so beautiful we just had to take another set of residents. We walked through ‘Narnia’ and saw the absolutely beautiful Christmas trees.
We were all wrapped up in hats scarves and gloves to fight this cold weather and there was merry Christmas smiles all round.
It was finished off with a hot chocolate and a bite to eat afterwards
Goldfinch Floral Studio
We all had a wonderful time joining Jennifer Owen - founder of Goldfinch Floral Studio for a creative floral bauble workshop.
Jennifer transported our residents to the out of the ordinary world of flowers and crafts and demonstrated how to create stunning hand-made baubles filled with dried flowers and grasses.
Our residents enjoyed filling and decorating their own glass baubles and their unique creations will be displayed at the home for everyone to enjoy.
Blenheim Palace Christmas Extravaganza
We experienced the Christmas extravaganza of Blenheim Palace with Social Historian - Antonia Keaney, who took us on a recorded tour around the Christmas sights at the palace this year.
Our residents were able to discover the story of The Nutcracker re-imagined within the palace rooms, each one exquisitely transformed and filled with hidden surprises – from the toymaker’s workshop on a frosty Christmas Eve; through the glistening Land of Snow and onto the candy-cane Kingdom of Sweets adorned with the sweetest of treats and larger-than-life gingerbread men.
Then the residents explored the after-dark illuminated trail in the palace’s picture-perfect gardens. A feast for the senses, as we witnessed glittering tunnels of light, dancing lakeside reflections, trees drenched in jewel-like colour and mesmerising flickering flames in the fire garden.
It was a truly magical experience, enjoyed by all.
Hearts and hands!
Rivermead residents got together last week to make a Christmas Tree with a difference, for it was built up from hand-painted ceramic hearts. Working in Memory Lane, a group of residents dipped unglazed hearts into pots of marbling paint, and eventually created 54 - one for each resident in the home! All were unique, but were marbled in a seasonal theme of reds and greens, and afterwards they were hung on the wall outside Rivermead’s front door in the shape of a Christmas Tree.
Upcoming events
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.
Could you be a Volunteer?
Do you have any spare time? Could you help make a difference to someones day to day life? For more information on volunteering, we'd love to hear from you.
Community Cafe - Every Tuesday from 10.30 am
We extend a warm invitation to community friends to join us at our popular Community Cafe - all welcome.
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.....
