Activities at Tewkesbury Fields Care Home

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Tewkesbury Fields care home in Tewkesbury got out their binoculars and bird books to support this year’s Big Garden Birdwatch initiative.

Our resident Ambassador Vivian had a brilliant time with our team, and filled up her birdfeeder to attract the birds.  She started looking up the different species in her bird book to make sure they were logged correctly, and we saw many different birds that day.

The RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch is an annual event to try to understand what is happening to our native birds. The idea is to log all the birds you see in your garden, from your window or in your local park in a one hour period any time between January 27th and 29th. 

Delicious delights await our residents each day at mealtimes, and we thought you would like to see examples of our Masterchef Jacque’s dishes.  Pictured here is a starter (that’s right a starter dish!) of pan fried giant prawns under roasted tomatoes surrounded by a balsamic glaze and leaves.  The heavenly dessert is a white and dark chocolate french tart sat on a melon slice and served with a small pot of ice cream - not shown as we didn’t want to make you too jealous!

Why not come to our Open Day on 4 February to find out more about life in our home.  Call: 01684 850311

Today, we welcomed the Tewkesbury Armed Forces Veterans for a super breakfast and as always, it was great to meet our Veterans and catch up on news, and what’s going on in their community.  We also talked about our Fall Fighters campaign we are running with RoSPA, and what we can all do to prevent falls - Sadly every year one in three people over the age of 65 will have a fall, and this risk doubles for those over 80 years.  Armed with this knowledge, we hope they will spread the word to their friends and continue to keep safe and very well.  Thank you for coming to see us, and we look forward to seeing you soon!

We joined in with the wonderful local Tewkesbury community, for an evening of live music and food.  The food was excellent and music was stunning, and Richard our resident and ambassador for the evening, made lots of new friends, and thoroughly enjoyed the evening.  A huge thank you to Henry, Jordanna , their team and all the local business's that supported this amazing community event.

Katie Brown is the Deputy Manager at Tewkesbury Fields and is also our newly nominated Well Being Champion!

Katie has been with us since the home opened last May, and has been nominated because of her Integrity and Respect values she demonstrates to everyone she meets!

For International Flower Day we spent the afternoon making beautiful flower arrangements with our residents here at Tewkesbury fields.  The lounge smelt wonderful from the fresh flowers and our residents really enjoyed creating their bouquets and floral arrangements.