Activities at Tewkesbury Fields 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.
Paula Lourenco
Hello, my name is Paula and I’m the Activities coordinator at Tewkesbury Fields care home. I’ve joined Barchester healthcare in 2020.
As part of the lifestyle enrichment team, I will be organising daily activities, ensuring that residents have varied activities to choose from each day. I love enriching our residents’ lives, creating memories and be able to provide meaningful activities to each one of the residents living at Tewkesbury fields.
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 Tewkesbury Fields Care Home
Our own minibus is here!
We are very pleased to announce that we have now taken the delivery of our own brand new minibus!
Our General Manager, James Culley said "This is such wonderful news and means that residents will be able to go on more excursions and be able to assist with appointments much easier. We have a number of trained staff who are able to drive and use the tail lift of the minibus. Some of our residents have already started using the minibus and we hope to utilise this great tool as much as possible!"
Crafts workshop at Bushley Village Hall
As the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III preparations begin, we've taken part in the crafts workshop at Bushley Village Hall.
There was such a variety of crafts available to choose from! Panting old tin cans to look like crowns, decoupage large jam jars for nightlights, decoupage bunting and craft grade foil to cut to a template.
Residents loved meeting the local community and as well as getting creative!
Thanks for inviting us, and we can't wait to see you again in more monthly workshops held at the village hall.
Armed Forces Veterans coffee morning
Our Home services advisor, Paula, visited the Armed Forces Veterans coffee morning at Northway Community Hub & Parish Office.
It is a lovely opportunity for the group to meet and enjoy a chat, as well as hot drinks and cakes or biscuits. There is even a raffle each month!
Paula has also taken some invites for our Open day on Saturday, 15th April!
Mini Me!
We've welcomed Sandra from Charmworth miniatures who brought along her collection of miniatures wedding dresses from 1930's through to the 1990's. Each dress has been handmade and detailed by Sandra, accordingly to each decade. A lovely reminiscing activity for our residents. When trying on the apron type wedding dress, one of our residents commented: "I feel wonderful!"
Thanks Sandra for coming along and spend the morning with us, making it so enjoyable and fun.
Easter Celebrations
Easter Sunday celebrations!
Residents and staff had a lovely day celebrating, creating many wonderful memories with one another. The team surprised the residents at lunch time with Easter chocolate eggs on the tables.
There was even an added bonus in our car park that everyone enjoyed seeing - a classic car!
Meet Charlie, the Donkey!
As part of our Easter celebrations, we had a very special guest visiting our home during Easter weekend.
Residents were overwhelmed with joy as they fed and stroked Charlie. He is a very calm, and friendly 22 years old donkey, happy to be stroked and receive lots of cuddles as he wondered through the home in and out of bedrooms.
There were lots of lots of funny stories about donkey rides at the seaside and some had ridden horses too. This amazing experience was delivered by Chris at Kelly's Donkeys who provide healthy and happy donkeys for rides, pet therapy and events.
