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.

Enriching life
Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Joanne Gadd

Activities Co-ordinator

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.

Life-encriching activities booklet Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.

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

Winter walk at Keydell

We were Feeling Festive Last week when we got into the festive spirit with a trip to visit Keydell Nurseries Winter Walk-through.We all absolutely loved seeing all the incredible Christmas displays and it was a special treat getting to see some reindeer too!

Christmas Drinks

We recently visited one of our favourite pubs, The Flower Pots Inn & Brewery for a round of Christmas drinks. Sometime you just need that refreshing taste of a beer or a crisp white wine. We settled in to the pub and enjoyed the atmosphere.We’d like to thank the staff for being so welcoming as always.

Back to School!

This week we were invited to Locks Heath Infant School to watch the children perform their fantastic Christmas show ‘Born in a Barn.’ 
It was our second visit to the school, in November we helped the children with a special project about toys. 
We’ve absolutely loved both our trips to Locks Heath and are looking forward to being able to continue growing our relationship with the school next year. 

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Christmas celebrations at Winchester college

This week we were delighted to be invited to attend a Christmas Afternoon Tea for the community at Winchester College.  As part of the event we were treated to entertainment courtesy of the college choristers, jazz band & singers along with festive food & refreshments.All the residents had a wonderful Christmas themed afternoon and are very much looking forward to attending again next year
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Little Donkey....Little Donkey

 Last week we had a very special visitor to our garden… the absolutely gorgeous donkey, Noel! Noel came to visit us in all his festive finery along with his owner Em to give us all an early Christmas treat.Everyone loved meeting him and enjoyed lots of wonderful cuddles and Noel enjoyed some lovely carrot treats 

Oh Christmas tree , Oh Christmas tree...

This week we have been  getting the home looking fabulously festive as we decorated our reception areaJackie and  David took a walk to our next door neighbours, George Beckett Nurseries, to choose a tree and then it was a team effort to get it decorated. We think it looks wonderful!