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
Postcards of Kindness scheme
Today at Tewkesbury Fields our residents were over the moon to receive postcards from a lovely couple in Worcester as part of the Postcards of Kindness scheme. The residents spent time reading them together in the Bushley Lounge and were keen to respond straight away and make sure they were in the postbox this eveving. We look forward receiving and sending many more postcards from Tewkesbury Fields and look forward to welcoming our new friends into our home.
Tewkesbury Abbey
What a wonderful morning we have had! We went down to Tewkesbury Abbey to visit the Abbey and the wonderful final piece from the Stitch Story (Tewkesbury Culture). Our residents were so impressed and loved being able to find the “square” that we added!
We walked around the Abbey reading all about the history and finished up with hot chocolates in the Abbey cafe! It is so great to live in a town with such rich history and stunning architecture!
Keeping Active
Fantastic morning at Tewkesbury Baptist Church getting some exercise in! We loved this class as it was accessible for a range of abilities and it was lots of fun!
Our lovely ladies exercised to music and had a good laugh in the process! We already can’t wait for the next class …
It was wonderful to be a part of the local community, the group shared the quote - “age is a matter of mind and if you don’t mind it doesn’t matter.”
Cake for Bushley Cricket Club
Emma went over to Bushley Cricket Club to deliver this delicious Victoria sponge cake - hand made with love by Chef Jaro!
It was brilliant to be able to support our Bushley neighbours and see everyone having such a wonderful time at the ale and cider festival, despite the rain!
We can’t wait to bring our residents to some cricket matches and join in the fun!
Gin Afternoon
Gin, gin!
How was your Wednesday afternoon? Ours was fantastic and full of Gin! One of our staff members brought in some of her favourite Gins from her collection to discuss with the residents.
We had a range of Gins and accompanying information about them including gin from Cotswold Distillery, the Morgan Motor Company, the Buckingham Palace Shop and Diddly Squat Farm Shop
Of course we rounded up the afternoon with a glass of gin with a range of garnishes to choose from! A wonderful afternoon was had by all.
Fall Prevention
Emma attended a brilliant talk on fall prevention, presented by Terry from Gloucestershire Care Services Nhs Trust at Tewkesbury Baptist Church.
Emma said “The information that was shared around fall prevention was invaluable and extremely insightful. Terry spoke about preventing a fall, what to do if one does have a fall and other safety measures that we can all take around the home.”
Remember these key things to prevent falling -
• Remove clutter and loose wires from the floor
• Add extra banisters and handles around your house
• Keep hydrated and well fed in order to prevent dizzy spells
