Activities at Thistle Hill Care Home
Our activities team are great at building the activities programme around the likes and interests of the people we care for. Ensuring that our social events offer fun and adventure is part of the ethos of our home; it’s important that those we support can enjoy an active and social lifestyle. Of course, there will always be those who prefer peace and quiet, and in these instances, a cup of tea and a chat are always welcomed.
Thistle Hill Life Enrichment Team
Ursula and Katie make up our fantastic Activities Team here at Thistle Hill.
They develop and oversee an active living programme for each resident, which encourages mobility, social contact, independence and fun. Each and every person can thrive and live to their full potential with no day ever being the same. They bring great enthusiasm and spark to the home and have one passion, which is to deliver an amazing and vibrant activities programme to cater to all tastes and abilities.
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 Thistle Hill Care Home
Cook Off 2024
Staff and residents are celebrating because their wonderful Managing Director, Fiona Fagan, from Barchester’s North East and Scotland Division, has stepped completely out of her comfort zone to compete in the Barchester Charitable Foundation Cook Off 2024.
Fiona went head-to-head with the Managing Directors from Barchester’s four other divisions and cooked up a storm to raise a phenomenal £24,595 for Barchester’s Charitable Foundation which helps connect vulnerable people and those living with a disability to community groups in their local area by providing grants to improve mobility and quality of life. Each year the Foundation distributes thousands of pounds to individuals, small community groups and charities across England, Scotland and Wales.
Close encouters of the furry kind
Thistle Hill was full of doggy delight on a recent pet therapy visit to the home. Animals have a wonderful calming effect and the residents love to stroke them, talk to them and play with them.
The home was visited by Scrumpy and his owner, Christine who caused a great deal of excitement. All of the residents enjoyed the visit, they petted and fed the dog who seemed to appreciate meeting new friends.
Residents enjoy silent disco
Thank you Pete Goldup - The Silent Disco DJ for giving us another wonderful afternoon of music and fun.
Pete, with his 40 pairs of headphones, projected music far beyond the main lounge areas and all the way into bedrooms, bringing the music and fun to the whole home.
Residents, visitors and staff thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
Birthday wishes!
It was a super busy day here at Thistle Hill, as we wished resident, Hazel a very happy birthday as we hosted a small birthday party before presenting her with a home-made cake especially made by the homes hospitality team accompanied by a rousing rendition of happy birthday!
We also held our baking club and created a yummy coffee cake.
Greenfingers in gardening club
Our residents here at Thistle Hill definitely have green fingers! As part of our regular and popular gardening club we planted the tomato, pepper and strawberry plants into a grow bag today. The tomatoes and strawberries are growing nicely and the pepper has flowers too.
We can't wait to see the results!
Resident wish becomes reality
We were delighted to grant a special wish for resident, Jean, who wanted to say a big thank you to Sarah for colouring her hair, painting her nails, and giving her a fabulous pamper day.
Sarah is one of our wonderful carers on Farnham, and not everyone knows that she comes in on her days off to do this. We have a lovely salon at Thistle Hill and residents love using it.
Jean is so happy with her new pink hair colour and beautiful nails! Everyone loves a little pamper.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Counting down to Christmas with a fun filled month ahead and we extend a warm invitation for you to join us - all welcome. Merry Christmas!
Could you be a Volunteer?
Do you have any spare time? Could you make a difference? For more information on Volunteering we would love to hear from you.
Carers Cafe - Last Tuesday of the month
Come along and make new friends, share experiences at our month Carers Cafe - last Tuesday of the month from 11.00 am. All welcome.
Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
Calling all emergency services personnel, come and take a break on us - enjoy a warm welcome, refreshing drink and a slice of cake!
