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
Visit from Cuddly Cavies!
We had a visit from some very cute and fury guinea-pigs with thanks to Cuddly Cavies. the residents really enjoyed this.
Sporting Memories Foundation
Here at St Thomas our team have recently joined a meeting with Sporting Memories Foundation to under more about how the scheme can benefit our residents.
Sporting Memories Foundation for 10 years have been using the power of remembering and talking about sport – along with physical exercise – to tackle dementia, depression and loneliness. They are dedicated to bringing together older adults.
Sporting Memories offer group or 1-2-1 based activities for our residents to enjoy either with other residents or by involving family and friends.
There are over 120 Sporting Memories Clubs across Scotland, Wales and England. The supportive, welcoming and structured sessions they offer are proven to help build cognitive resilience for those living with dementia. Mental and physical well-being increases too.
We look forward to working in partnership with Sporting Memories Foundation.
Best Dressed Christmas Tree
Over the festive period here at St Thomas Care Home we have held a community Christmas tree competition for our residents to judge the entries.
People from all over the local area have been sending us photographs of their Christmas Trees in order to be crowned Best Dressed Christmas Tree by our residents here at St Thomas.
After receiving an outstanding amount of entries in such a short period our residents had a lot of photographs to review. After much deliberation our residents and colleagues have chosen the below entry from Tracey. Congratulations Tracey, please contact StThomas.Activities@barchester.com to arrange collection of your prize!
Christmas Party
This week our in Basingstoke our residents and colleagues have recently enjoyed a five star Christmas Party! All of our residents came together in our dining room to have a really traditional festive party.
The party began with a buffet of home-made refreshments and glasses of wine to enjoy also. The residents enjoy the buffet followed by party games together and finished with live entertainment from our local performer.
Our registered manager Fatmata commented "This is exactly what the home needed, a real boost! It has been a difficult time and this has made every resident truly smile. We have achieved so much in 2021 and we look forward to continuing our growth in 2022"
Heroes for our Local Heroes!
Here at St Thomas care home in Basingstoke our general manager, Fatmata, has been out delivering festive cheer and sweet treats to our local doctors.
This small piece of community engagement is a way of saying thank you for the health services dedicated hard work to our home and the rest of their catchment area.
A Christmas Donation
Here at St Thomas we have had a recent Christmas Delivery from our friends at South Western Railway.
The kind donation from our local transport services included Christmas gifts and essential toiletries for our residents. Our residents are extremely grateful.
St Thomas look forward to continuing our relationships with the local community.
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.
