Activities at Tyspane 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.
Jacqui Conroy
Jacqui and her team devise and plan fun group activities and events for all our residents, including pamper days, gentle exercise classes and music therapies. Regular one to one sessions and smaller groups are tailored to residents specific needs and hobbies with gardening and crafts amongst the most popular.
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 Tyspane Care Home
Alpacas visit
Spending time outside during the summer months is essential to our resident's well-being but what could make being outdoors even better? Well a visit from some Alpaca's seemed to do the trick, they came on a sunny day in July! They managed to visit just about everyone, they came indoors too, much to the delight of residents who were not able to go out.
Employee of the Month - May
Liam was voted as employee of the month for May 2018. Liam is pictured with Jennifer Hodges the General Manager at Tyspane
Liam Prust is Acting Head Chef, he has very hard recently and has been instrumental in providing great service and great food to the residents at Tyspane.
General Manager Jenny said “thank you Liam for always going the extra mile to keep our residents happy”.
Three Cheers for Anais
We celebrated the work of our youngest volunteer recently; at only 13 years of age, Anais Davies loves joining residents during events and helping out at the home on weekends. Inspired by the dedication of the staff at here, Anais has plans to become a physiotherapist when she gets older.
She recently helped us to make a massive cake in recognition of the Queen's birthday. To make this 28kg (4.5 stone) Victoria sponge cake, Anais baked 19 sponge cakes, used 57 eggs, 4lbs of butter, 4kg of fondant, 4kg of icing sugar and 1.5 kg of fresh strawberries. It took Anais and her volunteers 30 hours to design the crown, bake the sponge cakes and decorate it.
Seed Planting
With this beautiful weather we have been having, Tyspane has started a seed planting club. We are growing flowers and vegetables as well as herbs, which we will eventually use in our kitchen.
Residents enjoy talking about their gardens and exchanging tips whilst getting their hands dirty again. Seeing their plants growing every day is also very rewarding.
Odds & Ends
The very popular Odds & Ends Choir came to visit Tyspane. They sang some old classics to a room full of residents and family members. The event was a great success!
Card Making
Anne Berry comes in every day to visit her husband and wanted to help the Activities Coordinators with card making. The class was very popular and we are now making it a bi-monthly event.
Upcoming events
Barchester's Big Quiz - Live Virtual Event
Calling all quizzers!
Join us for an exciting quiz to test your general knowledge and see who is the biggest brainbox of them all!
