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.
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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 Cherry Trees Care Home
Our Resident Bingo Caller
We have a new bingo caller at Cherry Trees. Our resident, Vera used to call bingo in a care home when she was younger and she has volunteered to take up the job at our weekly Wednesday bingo sessions. At Cherry Trees we understand that it is important for our residents to maintain a sense of purpose and we love finding ways for them to take a leading role in things that are going on in the care home.
Valentine's Day Celebrations
Love is always in the air at Cherry Trees but this valentine’s day it was particularly special. Our Trainee Care Practitioner Tehya brought in some beautiful red roses as a gift for our residents. We invited residents’ families to join us for a special valentine’s lunch, specially prepared by our Head Chef and this was followed by fantastic entertainment from Silver Belles Music who sang a selection of classic hits from across the decades.
Memory Lane Exercise Class
Cherry Trees have launched a new exercise class designed for residents on our Memory Lane community. This gentle, seated exercise class is led by Nick from Creative Mobility and is based on principles of Yoga and Tai Chi. It is designed to promote wellbeing and fitness as well as being relaxing. Residents focus on breathing for relaxation as well as leg and arm stretches to improve flexibility and exercises to improve hand strength and coordination. As well as being a good work out it is also great fun.
The class is open to all residents in the home and we also welcome any visitors who would like to join us on Fridays at 11am. We would kindly ask any visitors who wish to attend to call and book in advance.
St. John’s Ambulance Health Citizens Programme
Cherry Trees is pleased to be working with local school students as part of the St John’s Ambulance Health Citizens Programme. Students from St Benedict’s Catholic High School, are volunteering with us and spending time chatting to residents as well as arranging for some fantastic activities for them to enjoy. So far they have arranged for a singer and a magician, and there are plans for lots of other fantastic activities over the next few weeks.
Memory Choir
The Cherry Trees Memory Choir is back for the New Year. Led by the amazing soprano Victoria Wilson, our Memory Choir is a fun and informal singing group that meets every other Tuesday on our Memory Lane community. We sing a whole range of songs from ‘The Sound of Music’ to the Carpenters and the Beatles.
Singing is proven to have many therapeutic benefits for people living with Dementia and can help relieve anxiety and depression; maintain speech and language and enhance quality of life. Our Memory Choir welcomes all residents and family and friends are also invited to come along and join us. It really is good fun and our residents always leave telling us how good it makes them feel.
Royal Parks London
Across our services our residents have enjoyed a wonderful live virtual talk about starlings, one of the UK’s most gregarious birds, hosted by Rachel Dowse from The Royal Parks London.
Rachel examined our long history with this bird and the importance of common species to our lives. Our residents had the opportunity to find out more about the great murmuration and why we need to pay special attention to these beauties before it's too late.
The virtual experience was truly enjoyed by all.
Upcoming events
May
The month of May is the gateway to Summer and we are looking forward to a fun filled month ahead.
