Activities at Tewkesbury Fields Care Home

Happy Chinese Lunar Year from Tewkesbury Fields! Our residents celebrated today and enjoyed a wonderful Chinese banquet - and of course, we all had fortune cookies!

We celebrated the Scottish Burns Supper today, with highlights including a Bagpiper, a Robert Burns Poetry reading by Nancy and giving the time honoured address to the ‘Great chieftain O’ the pudding’ race’ – the Haggis!

General Manager, James Culley at Tewkesbury Fields Care home, thought it was a perfect occasion to celebrate a day steeped in age-old tradition as well as getting a Scottish Bagpiper to pipe in the residents to the restaurant, a spot of Scotch whisky tasting and the celebrated haggis – we even had a vegetarian version for the vegetarians (and for those who didn’t fancy Haggis!!).

Naomi visited Ida Poschel from AGE UK and Elaine Mactiernan - Councillor for Tewkesbury Borough Council and Northway Parish Council, at the Northway Community Hub.

Ida is at the hub every Monday to provide valuable advice for older people at this Northway Community Hub and which is also a designated ‘Warm Space’ on Mondays and Tuesdays funded by Tewkesbury Borough Council.

Naomi also raised Barchester’s Fall Fighter’ campaign in association with RoSPA – The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Sadly, falls are the single biggest cause of accidental injuries in the home, and the largest cause of accidental death among the over-65s in the UK.  

Hoping to engage local teams in the community to become a Falls Prevention Community Champions and lower falls incidences, Naomi talked to Ida and Tina Batchelor from the community of Northway, about how we can all help our community with this training. If you want more information on becoming a Community Falls Fighter, contact Naomi at Tewkesbury Fields Carehome on: 01684 850311.

We are forever grateful to our NHS hardworking teams and Tewkesbury Community Hospital is a wonderful service in our community.  Naomi went along this week with chocolates and goodies from Tewkesbury Fields to thank them for their services to the community and met Jaqui Ness and Jai Rana - we hope you enjoy your goody bags and Barchester pens! 

To all local nurses, paramedics and doctors - Don’t forget you can drop in for a free drink and cake and use our wifi to catch up on your case notes in our cafe. 

At Tewkesbury Fields, nothing is too much trouble for our residents and this week, Richard fancied traditional baked ham for tea from highly regarded local traditional butchers, Halfords on Tewkesbury High street.  With one wish granted it was then a look around Tewkesbury Priory and then off for a lovely lunch in town. 

We cherish our residents at Tewkesbury Fields, and visits to look around our home are welcome to show how we can care for your loved one.  Why not call to arrange a time to look around and meet our manager over tea and cake?

Tewkesbury & District U3A is a fantastic community movement where local people who no longer work, come together and learn for fun.  Interest groups range from sport, crafts, walking to archaeology and Naomi went along to their monthly meeting and met with Mike Jones the Speakers Secretary (pictured)  for Tewkesbury U3A to see how our residents could get involved with this group.  The Speaker that day specialised in Antique Furniture and talked about his career at Christies and Phillips – definitely future social events for Tewkesbury Fields residents!