What types of care does St Thomas Care Home offer?

St Thomas Care Home offers Dementia care, Respite / Short stay.

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.

Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Teresa Humphreys

Head of Activities / Dementia Champion

Hello. My name is Teresa. I am the Dementia Champion here at St. Thomas Care Home

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

Visit our Facebook page to keep updated with all the activities in our home

Little Cupid

Valentine’s Day is a Very Special day and all the ladies love getting flowers. On this day Angela and her son David come to the home to spread some lover around the home. David walked around with his mum and gave a single rose to every lady in the home. Dorothy and Shelia were the first to meet cupid and get a rose. Dorothy and Shelia were over the moon about being given a rose they we happy and really appreciated the fact that David had come to the home to give them roses. Dorothy said this takes her back to when her husband used to give her roses for Valentin’s Day and now she is getting a rose from a young man. Dorothy and Shelia wouldn’t let David go until they had a photo taken with him.

Long distance love

Today was Valentine’s Day and Charlie was sent a Valentines card from his wife who now lives in Scotland. Charlie and his wife have been together many of years now and their love is still very strong. I gave Charlie his card he opened it and smiled and read the front of the card he sat and read it out loud. He then opened and read the inside of the card. Charlie was happy to get a card from his wife as he doesn’t see her that very often in person. Charlie does have weekly zoom calls with his wife and daughter. This was a very touching moment for Charlie he put the card on his table where he could see it and smile.

Cheese and Wine!

Residents, Friends and Family enjoyed a wonderful cheese and wine afternoon to kick off Celebrating 30 years of Barchester.

Liz the Violinist Visits!

We were really happy to see Liz come back to St Thomas's with her Violin. We all love listening to her wonderful music.

Nepalese Party

We had a party to celebrate all of our team who are from Nepal and their culture. With lovely foods being cooked and music playing, it was a great afternoon.