Activities at Tixover House Care Home

Michelle’s Pet Therapy brought a selection of furry-friends to our home this afternoon and residents came along to enjoy the comfort of a furry-friend cuddle. 

We always have such a positive response to our pet therapy sessions within our home and actively encourage visitors, family and friends of the home to bring their pets on their visits to the home too. 

Activities often gain permission to take said pet to other departments of the home and to room visits too; creating lots of beautiful moments to enrich the lives of our residents. 

Pets tend to be a huge hit, so please do bring yours on your visits!

Our kind care-team came together and cooked exquisite Indian food. 

We sat down at the end or during our shift and had a plate of food and a drink together as a team. 

The food was bowled-up by our night staff, and we took the food home for our families too. 

It was such a kind gesture but also so nice to just sit briefly alongside your colleagues.

We launched our Toy Drive in our home on Children In Need Day through to Friday 20th December. There was a toy drop-off area at the reception and gifts were collected by the local community: Stamford Junior Knights, Stamford Knights Basketball, Bourne Deeping Hockey Club, Rutland Water Parkrun and Morcott village. 

Delivering to Bourne Salvation Army Community Church, a lot of children will wake up on Christmas Day with a Christmas present that they might never have previously. 

It is great to know that we have made a huge difference. The aim was simple, to add a smile and a glimmer of joy, happiness and laughter to a child and those around them. 

I can safely say that we met this aim (and some).

Magic Merlin visits our home, what a fabulously fun afternoon! 

So much involvement in the acts from our residents and lots of laughs and pure happiness from our residents! Beautiful to see the smiles across everyone’s faces when mastering a trick!

What a morning, with two stop-off’s on our mini bus outing! Firstly, Digby Farm Christmas Trees to see the reindeer, Christmas trees and Christmas shop. 

The rain held out and after stroking the reindeer, we made our way to Waterside Cafe Normanton for hot drinks and apparently the best Victoria Sponge! 

Fabulous!! Over the coming days we will be enjoying our Elf and Christmas jumper dress-up, quizzes and Christmas films (of course more sherry and mince pies!)

Across our homes we’ve had the most wonderful time celebrating the festive season with a special screening of 2020’s OLD VIC: IN CAMERA – A Christmas Carol.

This beautifully staged production brought the magic of Dickens’ classic tale right into our homes. A huge thank you to The Old Vic theatre for sharing this incredible performance with us. It was a truly wonderful experience.