Activities at Shawford Springs Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.
Joanne Gadd
Hello, I am Joanne. I have worked as an activities coordinator for over seven years. In that time I have built a wealth of skills, knowledge and experience in designing and implementing activities that will support the mind, body and soul. I have a passion for delivering person centred sessions and will strive to ensure our weekly programme is engaging for all. I love organising events and am continually looking for ways to connect with our local community.
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 Shawford Springs Care Home
Classic Car Show - Allsorts Motorclub - Alsford
What a beautiful sunny day it was for our classic Car show courtesy of All sorts Motor Club inc. who joined us on Saturday morning with 11 of their club members and their classic vehicles
The residents and their friends and families loved reminiscing with the club members and hearing about the stories of how they came to own their classic vehicles
There was a wonderful and diverse collection, the oldest car was nearly 100 years old and the most modern was a Subaru Rally Car.
Vernon was very lucky as he managed to sit in the drivers seats of most of the cars and also take a look under their bonnets
The WI Kitchen Dancers - Easter Crafting
This week we were thrilled to be joined by the lovely ladies of our local Kitchen Dancers W.I group who ran an Easter themed craft session in the lounge. The morning was full of fun & laughter & we ended up with a selection of beautiful paper Easter eggs to decorate our reception area with.
We’d like to thank them all for giving up their time to join us, we had a lovely time
Reminiscing with The Memory Box Foundation
We’d like to say thank you to Lauren from The Memory Box Foundation another lovely reminiscence session in our activity room yesterday morning.
We thoroughly enjoyed chatting about our favourite places in the U.K & sharing memories of holidays & trips taken
Winchester Rotary - Community Afternoon Tea
We had an absolutely fantastic afternoon at Winchester Rotary UK’s Senior Citizens Party at Itchen Abbas Village Hall
We decided to take some of our wonderful ladies along as a pre-mother’s day treat and what a treat it turned out to be! Everyone was thoroughly spoilt with bingo, games, a raffle, live music & a delicious afternoon tea.
We’d like to thank all the members of the Winchester Rotary for organising the event & for very kindly inviting us along
Mother's Day
Mother's Day at our home was a busy day.... We had lots of visitors for a very special Afternoon Tea and then there were all the cards, flowers and chocolates....
Anyone for a game?.....
This week some of our gents got together for our weekly men’s club. On the agenda this week - cider & table tennis!
