Activities at Balclutha Court Care Home
At Balclutha Court our resident’s happiness is extremely important to us. We all know that a large part of this is keeping active and continuing to enjoy your interests and hobbies. At Balclutha Court, we have regular activities including arts and crafts, music, entertainment, trips to local attractions such as canal trips, safari parks and many more. Our activities team are always busy organising events, entertainment and excursions with the broadest possible appeal and many of our residents see living at Balclutha Court as an opportunity to develop a new skill or interest. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
Karen Dillon
Karen Dillon is our Head of Activities and has worked within the home since 2005, starting out as a Carer. Karen is very outgoing and full of fun. She has many hobbies, with arts & crafts being her favourite, and her passion for this can be seen in our life enrichment programme.
Karen is supported by Kay Millar and Anita Marsh, between them they ensure that residents are happy and have loads of fun.
They are very keen to involve the residents in the decision making within the home to enhance their experience. They take part in the residents' meetings, catering forums and assist the General Manager in interviewing new staff members.
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 Balclutha Court Care Home
Ladies day at the races
We had a fun afternoon at our own version of Aintree Ladies day. We decorated and wore our best hats, enjoyed some nibbles and looked at fashion through the ages form Aintree. We placed our bets and shouted at the virtual jockeys.
Easter community party
We joined our local care homes and day care centres to celebrate Easter in style. We all brought our own picnic and drank our body weights in tea and coffee. Some of us even had a wee baileys. We had live entertainment and danced the leather off our shoes. We had an Easter bonnet competition (not to brag but we did win). We had a fantastic day meeting friends new and old.
Reminiscence
Here at Balclutha we love to reminisce about “the good old days” as part of our regular life enrichment programme programme. We had a lovely afternoon looking at our local history, our childhoods and where we all grew up. We shared memories and laughed our socks off at each other’s stories. It’s nice to remember the fun stuff!
World Book Day
World book day was a hit here at Balclutha. We discussed our favourite Authors and titles from both the past and today. We shared stories about our favourite books and promoted our in-house library for those who didn’t know about it.
Traditional Scottish Entertainment
We had a great day with one of our favourite entertainers, Michael. Michael has been entertaining us for many years here at Balclutha Court and we just love when he visits.
Residents love to sing along to a mix of both traditional and modern Scottish music as Michael swings his Kilt to the music.
Plenty of fabulous dance moves from as always from our amazing residents.
St. Patrick's Day Party
We celebrated the patron saint of Ireland with traditional music, games and refreshments.
A great day was had by all as we danced, sang, drank and laughed the afternoon away. Some Irish themed games kept us all on the move and the Irish liqueurs helped keep us glowing.
Upcoming events
May
May is the gateway to summer and we have lots of fun filled things planned - all welcome.
