Activities at St Thomas Care Home
Our activities coordinator is dedicated to organising meaningful activities on an individual and group basis to fulfill the daily needs of our residents, as we understand how important mental and physical stimulation is for their wellbeing. Our activities are available to everyone who wants to take part and there is something different going on everyday. We often go out on day trips including visiting shopping centres, garden centres, evening meals at the local pubs, visits to local schools and also coffee mornings with other care homes. We have a wide range of entertainers that visit us at our home including musical therapists, Millers Ark Farm, pantomimes as well as our local salvation army and lots more. We encourage families to join us on trips out and also in home activities such as baking, arts and crafts, dancing and singing, we believe this is a great way for our residents to live an active and fun life here with us at St Thomas.
Charlie Burns
Hello!
I'm Charlie and I am the Activities Lead here at St Thomas. I have worked for Barchester since 2017, and have recently transferred here to the wonderful St Thomas Care Home.
I enjoy delivering enriching and fun activities to the residents here and am looking forward to meeting you!
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 St Thomas Care Home
Our residents will be the Judges!
We are running a photography competition on our Facebook page for spring nature themed photos which residents will judge and announce the winner on 7th May, please email your entry to us at stthomas@barchester.com, there is a lovely prize for the winner!
We are on Facebook!
We are delighted our Facebook page, @Barchesterstthomas is now up and running with regular posts about upcoming events and life in our home photos, take a look now!
Indoor visiting starts at St Thomas's!
For residents at St Thomas care home the long awaited reunion with one family member has become a reality, as one single named visitor is now allowed to visit each resident in their bedroom.
Madge a resident at St Thomas, was delighted to see her daughter, Doreen, on Mother’s Day. Doreen commented: “I have just had a bedroom visit with my mum, we’ve had a lovely time and even done a Zoom call to America. It was so nice to get close to her and I can go home contented.”
General Manager, Fatmata Cochrane said: “We’ve all had a really lovely day. This is the first cautious step towards having a buzz of visitors in the home again. It was wonderful to see how happy it made the residents and their relatives. We have a great booking system in place to ensure the visits are well organised, and visitors are doing a great job of following the safety measures to keep everyone as safe as possible. For those that are not able to come inside the home we are pleased to be able to continue to offer visits in our visiting suites, as well as video calls.”
St Patrick's Day
We all enjoyed the Guinness tasting on St Patrick's Day together with a celebration of Irish tales and songs. The conservatory was decorated with lots of green and white balloons and the Leprechaun pictures were the subject of much discussion - would he really lead us to a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?
Mother's Day
Residents enjoyed a lively lunch on Sunday in the conservatory, we always offer a glass of wine with meals and it was lovely to see residents relax and socialise with their meal the room all decorated for the occasion with fresh flowers. In the afternoon we also had a special cream tea, calories don't count on Sunday's!
Shrove Tuesday Supper!
Residents really enjoyed pancakes this week - with a full choice of toppings available its was difficult to choose so why not mix? fresh strawberries and toffee sauce was delicious!
