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.

Enriching life
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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.

Life-encriching activities booklet Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.

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

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Gardens of Gloucestershire

This week Residents gathered for a virtual walk through some of the most beautiful gardens in the area from Malvern to Oxford. Over the years family member Richard Chatham has visited many gardens around the area and developed a passion for taking photos of Gardens . He  virtually walked our residents through some of the most beautiful gardens in the area from Malvern to Oxford. The gardens included in the walk were: Perrycroft, West Malvern. Oxford Botanical Gardens. Kiftsgate, North Cotswolds. Miserden Park.  Golden Valley-Stroud. Rodmarton Manor, Cirencester.Sezincote,  North Cotswold's Bourton House Gardens, North Cotswolds. Little Malvern Court. Malvern.
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Share a Poem

Many of the residents at Tewkesbury Fields enjoy listening to and reading Poetry. This week we attended a monthly community group at Tewkesbury Library to "Share a poem".Residents selected Poems of their choice to share with the group and read the poems beautifully, the choice was very varied.We listened to poems from Rudyard Kipling, James Milton Hayes, Spike Milligan and Pam Ayres . Our resident ambassador Jack shared with us some of his own poetry from one of his books that he had published.We look forward to the next visit and also sharing some live readings with everyone.
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Fashion show with miniature figures

The ladies at Tewkesbury Fields have had a fabulous time this afternoon, travelling all the way back to the fashion in the 1960s. In the 1960's many ladies used to make their own clothing for themselves and their children. Sandra, from Charmworth miniatures has such a wonderful miniatures fashion collection through the decades! Some ladies even enjoyed trying some hats on, including Mary Quant style. Overall, we've had a fantastic afternoon reminiscing and sharing stories together.
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Autumn Crafts

Never too early for Autumn crafts.We enjoy planning our weekly craft club and our residents embrace new ideas and techniques. This week we enjoyed making the first Autumn themed wreath to start displaying around the home.  It looked stunning in the fire place in our Bushley lounge. 
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Weekly Baking Club

We love our weekly Baking Club at Tewkesbury Fields, this week we baked and iced vanilla cup cakes.  Some residents prefer to chat and observe that we are following the recipe correctly. We measured, reminisced and mixed the ingredient the old fashion way!  They tasted and looked superb with our afternoon cup of tea. 
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Cuddles with Riggs from Pets as Therapy

What a great afternoon spent with Riggs and volunteer Lucy from Pets As Therapy .

Many cuddles got shared today. Riggs brings so much joy and happiness to our residents. Riggs is so gentle and loves getting up close for the cuddles.

We can't wait to see you again in a couple of weeks.

Upcoming events

St Georges Day Celebrations

Join us for afternoon Tea and live entertainment to celebrate St George's Day

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Classic Car Coffee Morning

This is a relaxed and sociable gathering for car enthusiast's.

Held first Sunday in the month throughout the Summer months.

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Scarecrow Competition

Community Scarecrow competition all business's, charities, schools and community groups invited to take part.

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