Tewkesbury FieldsBarchester Healthcare

Activities at Tewkesbury Fields Care Home

Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.

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.

Read our brochure ‘Life-enriching activities’ for more information about life in our care homes.

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Paula Lourenco

Activities Coordinator

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.

Celebrating life at Tewkesbury Fields Care Home

Share a Poem at Tewkesbury Library

Some of our ladies enjoy regularly attending "Share a Poem" at Tewkesbury library.

This is a regular favourite for some of our residents, they enjoy listening to others read poetry and chatting about life in general.

As you can see from the photos, our residents always bring laughter and smiles wherever they go.

Thank you Tewkesbury Library for another welcoming visit.

Classic Car Coffee Morning

We hold regular events at Tewkesbury Fields and one of the favourites is the Monthly Classic Car Coffee Morning. Our latest one was on a lovely crisp autumn sunny morning.

We welcomed members of the community to showcase their vehicles and enjoyed time reminiscing about vehicles that residents had owned through the years.

Celebrating Emergency Services Day

Celebrating International Dog Day

At Tewksbury Fields many of us are pet and animal lovers. So we couldn't let International Dog Day pass us by!

We organized a dog photography competition and we were thrilled with the amount of participants that took the time to send in the beautiful photos of their dogs.

Our residents enjoyed looking at them and the judging became very intense! The results were close - but the overall winner was Reg who is a 16 week puppy.

A bit of retail therapy!

Our residents were delighted with the opening of the new Cotswold Designer Outlet in Tewkesbury.

We enjoyed the array of shops and cafes and restaurants - we obviously had to buy a few things! We feel very lucky to have such a wonderful shopping extravaganza on our doorstop and it will certainly be regular trip for the residents.

We stopped for refreshments along the way, and as always laughter and chatter ruled the afternoon.

Visit from Beckford Nursery Children

Our residents were absolutely delighted to welcome the Nursery children for their first visit to Tewkesbury Fields Care Home.

The children bring such a zest for fun and learning, while our residents are always eager to share their wisdom and stories.

During this visit, we decorated Pumpkins, played with the parachute and even sang a few Nursery Rhymes together.

These intergenerational visits are proving to be a real favourite with both our residents and the children. We love seeing the smiles, laughter and connections that blossom each time they come together!

We look forward to seeing them again next month.

Scrabble Club

We support our residents in continuing their hobbies and daily lifestyle preferences. There are plenty of opportunities to join new activities too and make friends along the way.

At Tewkesbury Fields Scrabble is very much the favourite board game. Residents regularly challenge each other to a game -and at times is quite tense!

A day on the canal

Our special day with the Willow Trust.

Residents enjoyed a day cruising along the Sharpness - Gloucester Canal.

Everyone enjoyed a picnic, fresh air and just purely relaxing. Residents had a chance to steer the boat and have an in depth conversation with the skipper.

A big thank you to Skipper John and all the fantastic volunteers who make us feel very welcome on board. Residents have had a fantastic experience!

Drinking Pimm's and listening to a Choir

An afternoon with Pimm's and Leadon Vale Community Choir.

Residents, families and members of the community had a wonderful afternoon listening to the choir and sipping Pimm's in our Cotswold suite.

The sun shone and we all agreed it was a perfect afternoon.

Thank you so much to the amazing Leadon Vale Choir, we always look forward to you entertaining us - even the jokes!

Afternoon visit to the local airport

Residents enjoyed a fabulous afternoon at Staverton Airport.

We enjoyed watching the planes and helicopters take off and land in the glorious summer sunshine. It was also a time to reminisce about previous travels around the world that evoked wonderful memories.

Gentlemen that Lunch

"Gentlemen that Lunch".

The dining experience at Tewkesbury Fields is always a social occasion. This week our General Manager Phillip was invited to join some of the gentleman for a Fish and Chip lunch.

Phillip said "it was great to sit and chat whilst relaxing with a delicious lunch, especially on Fish and Chip Friday".

National Housekeeping Week

Happy National Housekeeping Week!

This week we’ve been celebrating our amazing housekeeping colleagues here at the home.

They work tirelessly behind the scenes to keep our home clean and welcoming for residents, visitors and staff members alike. Their hard work, care and dedication make such a difference every single day.

A huge thank you to our wonderful Housekeeping Team – we truly appreciate everything you do!

Visit from Gloucestershire Deaf Awareness

We were delighted to welcome Martha and Kate from Gloucestershire Deaf Awareness.

GDA provides practical and emotional support that enables a person to live confidently with their deafness.

One of our residents is keen to learn sign language and we are looking into hosting workshops within the home alongside raising awareness and supporting this amazing charity

A stroll by the river

We enjoy weekly trips out in the minibus and as we live in such a beautiful part of Tewkesbury we don't have far to go to for a lovely stroll and ice cream.

It's always relaxing to sit by the river and watch nature at it's best.

Annual Teddy Bears Picnic

Our annual Teddy Bears Picnic was another roaring success.

We welcomed the Music Man who not only kept the children but also the grown ups entertained.

We were delighted to welcome the local community, residents, families grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Residents had a great time meeting the younger generation.