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
We are supporting local charity with our Summer Fair
We are so pleased to be supporting St Michael's Hospice with fundraising at our summer fair on Saturday 21st August - lovely welcome in the office to meet Jackie and the team today. We collected our donation buckets, balloons and giveaway goodies, all ready for your cash from ticket sales for the tombola and raffle stall!
Reception has a box ready for all your donations so please look out some wonderful prizes for us to support raise money for this local charity. We welcome donations from our relatives, neighbours, friends and staff.
National Youth Day with Royal Ballet
In celebrations on international youth day we enjoyed an amazing workshop from the English National Ballet and a performance from their young dancers. Our residents loved watching the dancing and getting moving unleashing their inner ballet dancer!
BBQ party in the garden
Everyone enjoyed the BBQ on Saturday and the weather finally came good! The hospitality team served a selection of BBQ favourites and drinks. Entertainment was provided by Anthony who was a hit with the visitors and residents of all ages, there was dancing and tap footing to the beat all afternoon.
Baby shower for Junu
Our wonderful carer Junu will be going on maternity leave soon and we could not let her go without a baby shower party with the team! she said "It was a complete surprise, I was so emotional everyone was so kind with all the presents, Oksana, our chef and Mandy made delicious cakes too"
From the colour of the balloons I'm sure you can guess Junu first baby will be a girl, we look forward to welcoming her to into our St Thomas family
Wimbledon strawberry tea!
We were well and truly ready for the women's tennis finals at Wimbledon today and everyone had an absolute treat.
Champagne, strawberries and fresh cream scones oh ! and not forgetting the Pimms that was a real delight.
104 reasons to celebrate for Nellie!
Celebrations have been in full swing at St Thomas Care Home as one of its residents reaches her 104th birthday in style.
Nellie was joined by staff, relatives, and the Mayor of Basingstoke, Onnalee Cubitt as she received hundreds of cards and gifts. Tracy, activities coordinator contacted local pop up ‘That gallery’ in Festival Place, whose artist Fatima Pantoja painted Nellie from photograph and presented her with the portrait on her special day. A champagne reception was in the homes chapel and guests enjoyed a homemade birthday cake with afternoon tea prepared by the home’s chef Oksana.
Nellie was born in 1917 in the east end of London and worked as a machinist for a tailoring business where she met her husband Arthur. They had four children and the family has grown to now include 8 grandchildren and 8 great great children. Joining her at the party were some of her grandchildren which really made it a family event. A resident at St Thomas for nearly three years, she is adored by her family and staff.
Among those relatives attending was Nellie’s daughter Jean, who played host for the afternoon party. Speaking about her mother she said: “Nellie is and has been a fantastic mother to us all, she had a back bone during difficult times and was a tower of strength to all who knew her. A fantastic cook she was always baking for us, her meat and potato pie is legendry in the family! We are all so happy to be with her on this very special day to say just how proud she makes us feel.”
