Activities at Threshfield Court Care Home
Here at Threshfield Court, we aim to tailor the activities to meet the needs of individual residents, the communities within the home and the home as a whole. We have regular, structured activities such as visits from Music for Health, specialist armchair exercise facilitators, local musicians and a growing team of volunteers, including our local clergy. We also have time for arts and crafts, all sorts of games, music, poetry and lots more. We are pretty good at being spontaneous too!
Claire Boocock
Hi, my name is Claire Boocock. I come from a background of hospitality and working in the Care Home sector is very new for me but already immense job satisfaction in working with our residents alongside a great team.
I am very excited about this new venture in my career. I am an outgoing person with a big bubbly personality and looking forward to making a big difference to the social well-being of our residents with my flair of creativity and adventure.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Threshfield Court Care Home
Christmas cake competition
At Threshfield Court our entry to the BHC Christmas Cake Competition has become a tradition which we all enjoy. Whether it be enjoying a sherry and watching, or actually getting our hands sticky. We had lovely festive music playing in the background and armed with ready rolled marzipan and white icing we began the task.
Each cake was individually decorated and judged by the homes Senior General Manager, Stacey Nicholson, after judging our cakes have been safely stored away until Christmas Eve as a special treat and to enjoy along with our Christmas Eve boxes which are really filled with lots of goodies.
Magic of the Nutcracker
We experienced the magic of the Nutcracker with a special interactive workshop led by English National Ballet Associate Artists.
Our residents were able to take a magical journey thorough Edwardian London and to learn more about the enchanted Nutcracker characters: Clara, the Mouse King, and her valiant Nutcracker doll. The session included a chair-based dance workshop, clips of the ballet on stage and a Christmas carol sing-along, truly enjoyed by all.
Chocolate truffles
We had a lovely time joining Paul Hawkins and Steve Wilkes from Unilever for an exciting immersive Christmas experience.
Our residents were welcomed with chocolate treats as Paul and Steve took them on an exciting chocolate truffle making and biscuit decorating journey.
To finish off the Christmas special event, our residents enjoyed a themed quiz and a singalong.
We all had a wonderful time.
Christmas lights
On dark cold nights at Threshfield Court Care Centre we treat our residents to a magical evening tour on the minibus to see the best Christmas Lights. We’ve travelled far and wide wrapped in cosy rugs down the Dale to Ilkley, Burley in Wharfedale, Silsden, Skipton and finally to Grassington. Grassington was amazing, for such a small village and was voted our winner. Our residents enjoy these night trips.
Poetry recital
At Threshfield Court Care Centre today we were honoured to have John Anderson visit us. John is a local volunteer and has been visiting us for a number of years. The weather was very wet and cold outside but listening to John read us a variety of poems really uplifted us. Poetry is just so amazing and boosts our mental well-being. John is visiting next on the 20th December 2021 to read us festive poems and sing a Christmas Carol.
Christmas lights
We experienced the Christmas extravaganza of Blenheim Palace with Social Historian - Antonia Keaney, who took us on a recorded tour around the Christmas sights at the palace this year.
Our residents were able to discover the story of The Nutcracker re-imagined within the palace rooms, each one exquisitely transformed and filled with hidden surprises – from the toymaker’s workshop on a frosty Christmas Eve; through the glistening Land of Snow and onto the candy-cane Kingdom of Sweets adorned with the sweetest of treats and larger-than-life gingerbread men.
Then the residents explored the after-dark illuminated trail in the palace’s picture-perfect gardens. A feast for the senses, as we witnessed glittering tunnels of light, dancing lakeside reflections, trees drenched in jewel-like colour and mesmerising flickering flames in the fire garden.
It was a truly magical experience, enjoyed by all.
