Activities at Cherry Trees Care Home
Our activities team are constantly striving to mentally and physically stimulate those we support by organising group and individual social events for anyone and everyone to participate in. There are regular outings in the minibus to nearby places of interest, including the local theatre, as well as visits from Pat dogs, musicians and entertainers. We also host bingo, quiz and knitter natter afternoons that we encourage relatives and the local community to attend. Our Gentleman's Club is also open to non-residents every Thursday afternoon from 2:30pm, join us for a tipple of your choice, we have plenty of snacks and chats. For the ladies, our beauty salon provides; hairdressing and nail pampering, you too can enjoy a drink and some well-deserved 'me' time. Activities are one of the most important aspects of a care home, so it is essential that our team are dedicated to ensuring that residents are entertained, and that life at Cherry Trees is fun and active.
Carly Marshall
Carly joined Cherry Trees in March 2023. Her whole life has been working in the care sector and now as lead activity coordinator, Carly said ‘ I absolutely love my role here. I have a real passion to enrich the lives of our residents and make them as special as they can be. I really love to see the faces of our residents when we make these ideas we have come to life, it’s just a magical and rewarding job and I can honestly say I’ve found my forever home’
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 Cherry Trees Care Home
Here come the girls!!!
It was ladies day here at Cherry Trees on 12th April. On the home stretch now...
Our horses in the running this afternoon were:
Barb Barb
Handsome Harry
Vicious Valerie
Black beauty
Larkin about
Maggie moo
Pee pee
Princess patsy
Kirky
Delboy
We had great fun racing our horses around our lounge, Residents picked a card one- six and that was however many moves they made on the horse track. Two races were won! Barb Barb took the lead and won some yummy chocolates and Larkin about took the lead to win chocolates in the second race! It was a fun afternoon and the residents thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
Isaac food bank Redditch
We set up a table in the foyer for any food and toiletry donations our friends, colleagues and relatives could give towards the wonderful young man Friends of Isaac’s Food Bank CIC. This amazing young man has done so much for the community and we wanted to support him as much as we could here at Cherry Trees. Please go check out Isaac's page and see for yourself the difference he has been making! We just wanted to say from all of us here at Cherry Trees a huge heartfelt thank you for helping us to collect all the food we have for the lovely Issac and his amazing cause. We met Isaac and his mom Claire and the residents had such a lovely time chatting to Isaac and hearing all about his mission. We really appreciate the hard work he is doing and if we can help further we absolutely will. Keep doing what you’re doing Isaac, you are an inspiration to us all.
Wow what a day!!!
On the 8th of April we had our Enable Purple Prosecco Party.
Enable is our digital care system, reinventing how we plan, record, and coordinate care using smartphone handsets.
The rollout is in full swing, and thanks to our whole home approach, every member of staff will use Enable to document those precious, life-enriching moments for our residents. A massive thank you to our incredible transposing team for guiding us through this smooth transition.
We can't thank everyone enough for their hard work and commitment to enhancing the lives of our all residents through Enable. We are so excited for the future here at Cherry Trees.
Mother’s Day afternoon tea
We celebrated Mother's Day this year with a scrumptious afternoon tea including a selection of sandwiches, cakes, scones and freshly brewed tea, families were able to get together for this special day with their loved ones and enjoy time spent together whilst enjoying their afternoon tea. It really was a magical day for all.
Hydration and nutrition week
Nutrition and Hydration Week has taken place annually since 2012. Its purpose is to bring people together to highlight and educate on the importance of eating and drinking well on maintaining health and wellbeing. We at Cherry Trees took part in the competition and had lots of fun with food and drink. From milkshakes Monday where we made breakfast fruit smoothies Talking Tea Tuesday, trying different flavours of tea hot and cold and even the queen of hearts was there delivering jam tarts. Wobbly Wednesday was our very own Carmen Maranda delivering fruit and jellies to our residents. Thirsty Thursday where we hosted a mocktail party and had music from Andre Riue. We ended our week with Fab fruity Friday where we had a cheese and wine party with plenty of fruit. Our hydration stations were set up with a variety of fruity waters and everyone had great fun exploring and experimenting with new foods and drinks.
Mad Hatters tea party
So we took a Tumble down the rabbit hole and discovered the Mad Hatter's Tea Party at cherry trees for world book day. Residents came with their best hats and staff dressed up as characters from the classic story book Alice in wonderland. Residents indulged in sweet treats and hot tea served in China cups. They played games such as pin the grin where residents were blindfolded and had to pin the Cheshire cats smile onto his body and the next game we played was build a house of cards and the best house won some prizes.
Residents had a magical afternoon, Marjorie said 'this is the funniest tea party I've ever attended' it really was good fun.
Upcoming events
May
The month of May is the gateway to Summer and we are looking forward to a fun filled month ahead.
