Activities at The Spires Care Home
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Angie Smith
Hi, my name is Angie and I am an activities coordinator here at The Spires. 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 program of events and activities. Essential to our homely feel is the strong relationships of trust we build with residents and their families and friends.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 The Spires Care Home
Pamper Day for Carers
Our pamper day for carers in our local community was a great success. We had a full day of hair and nail treatments plus flowing refreshments with home-made cakes, biscuits and a light lunch. Our guests enjoyed a warm welcome and spent time in our café overlooking the courtyard with the sun shining, it was a lovely day!
Dementia Friends
We ran a Dementia Friends session at The Spires recently. Members of the team from the Garrick Theatre in Lichfield attended the session. We also ran 2 sessions at Debenhams in Lichfield in the same week as we try to promote Lichfield as a dementia friendly community.
About Time
Students from local primary school, The Friary, joined the staff at new build care home in Lichfield, The Spires to bury a time capsule on 27th June containing objects that reflect the year, marking the opening of the home.
Students from year 7 were selected to choose the items to put into the capsule, including the day’s Lichfield Mercury newspaper, alongside other articles like a map of the town, and Ed Sheeran CD, a Blue Planet DVD, a pound coin from 2018, a stamp set featuring the newly married Duke and Duchess Harry and Meghan, which were the top choices put forward by school children.
The home’s new hospitality team also provided a selection of refreshments for everyone to celebrate the special occasion.
Lisa Downes, the General Manager at Barchester, said: “I’m pleased that we can involve our young students from the local school as well as members of the community in this momentous occasion. It’s a very exciting time for the care industry and when the time capsule has been dug up 50 years from now, the new care home will be long-established in the Lichfield community.”
Mark Drury, Assistant Head teacher at Friary School, said: “Students had a wonderful day at The Spires burying the time capsule full of reminders of the here and now for their future selves. Our students from Year 7 submitted so many interesting and thoughtful entries, and are really looking forward to uncovering them here at The Spires 50 years from now. Thank you to the team at The Spires for inviting us to this special occasion. We are looking forward to working with our new neighbours again soon.”
The Silver Singers
The Lichfield Garrick Theatre was recently awarded a grant in support of their Day Choir from Barchester’s Charitable Foundation. Nominated by the team at The Spires, the Lichfield Garrick Theatre group received a £1,560 donation to help fund the launch and ongoing agenda for the choir.
Aimed at the over-65s, but available for all, the Lichfield Garrick Theatre’s Day Group choir brings older people from the local community together for weekly choir sessions, encouraging them to meet new people, have fun and avoid being isolated and on their own.
An integral part of Lichfield, the Garrick Theatre has many events taking place throughout the year that brings the community together. General Manager, Lisa Downes, a local to Lichfield, heard that the day choir was being launched but needed additional funding to continue, so The Spires came to the rescue.
Carrie Jahn, The Spires' Home Services Advisor. then wrote to Barchester’s Charitable Foundation, a charity that helps older and disabled people in England, Scotland and Wales by offering grants to individuals and small local organisations, who nominated the charity to receive the grant.
Following a successful application process, Lisa, Carrie and the team at the Lichfield Garrick Theatre were thrilled to learn that the grant was approved, where it will provide support for the choir for many months to come.
Handover of Keys
Lisa Downes, the newly appointed General Manager of The Spires, was delighted to accept the keys to the 70-bed care home on Stafford Road from the Project Construction Manager, Gerard Rogers, of McGoff Construction.
During the build. more than 90,000 bricks were laid, 2,100 energy-saving light bulbs fitted, and in addition to 1,200m² of turf, 5,500 plants, trees and shrubs were used to create the landscaped grounds.
Cheese & Wine Evening
Or Professionals' Cheese & Wine Evening was a huge success; there were many attendees who all had a great time.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
