Activities at Tixover House Care Home

Residents across our services had a lovely time joining Emily and Marie-Therese from the Wallace Collection, for a virtual introduction to Reubens' Rainbow Landscape.

Residents truly enjoyed the sensory walk through one of the museum’s most famous landscape paintings.

Everyone who joined had a wonderful experience and can’t wait to put their creative skills to the test by painting some landscapes of our their in the coming days!
 

Taking place this year on Friday 15 November, Children in Need raises money to help support local charities and projects which are providing essential frontline help to children and young people in communities throughout the UK.

Tixover House, to do their part for children, are organising a children’s toy drop off in their reception area. This incentive will be running from Friday 15 November through until Friday 20 December, when the presents will have been gift wrapped by our residents and being delivered to children’s wards of our local hospital and children in the community who are less fortunate.
 

Tixover House in Rutland commemorated Remembrance Day on Sunday 10 November.  They joined the rest of the United Kingdom in holding a two-minute silence at 11am.

As well as marking Remembrance Day by wearing poppies and watching the televised service from The Cenotaph, residents went to the Remembrance Service at Barrowden and Wakerley Church. Tixover House has in house church services but residents are always keen to visit the local church and hear the local vicar deliver the service in person where possible. The residents from Tixover House were welcomed by the vicar with a special mention of their attendance on that date. They bought back the worship book and the activities team visited each resident in the Nursing Community to have one-to-one discussions of remembrance.
 

Thank you to our sister home Chater Lodge Care Home - Barchester Healthcare for letting our residents join in their pony therapy this afternoon, a few photos of our residents enjoying this activity, it was truly beautiful to watch the experience. 

Our residents enjoyed being amongst Chater Lodge’s residents, not just sharing the occasion, but chatting following over a selection of hot and cold drinks and even a glass or two of wine! Thank you for your hospitality and we look forward to welcoming you all to our home very soon.

Thank you to Birch Tree for welcoming our residents this morning for an enjoyable outing for coffee, cake and I am told the best chicken bacon sandwich!! It was decided this morning by our residents to support Birch Tree on our outing today and we look forward to visiting again soon, a table of chicken bacon sandwiches it is!!’

The Birch Tree Café is a place where young people who have Down’s Syndrome can work, socialize, and be accepted as part of a vibrant village community
 

A lovely 5th of November in our home! Our residents helped put up the decs this morning, there were balloons being set off around our main lounge! 

We had Nick Glover singing whilst we enjoyed hot choccies with whipped cream and marshmallows and polished off a bottle of sherry, complete with ginger biscuits made by our residents this morning and a rather delicious chocolatey Birthday cake! 

We then enjoyed sparklers and will be sitting down for a bonfire night themed evening meal prepared by our chef! Thoroughly fun 5th of November!