Ashchurch ViewBarchester Healthcare

Activities at Ashchurch View Care Home

Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.

Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.

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Celebrating life at Ashchurch View Care Home

Summer at Ashchurch view!

Summer at Ashchurch has been filled with activities, fun and sunshine! We have celebrated carers week, the residents loved handing out gifts and cards to our carers, we have helped raise money for Tour De Barchester, we have enjoyed cheese and wine evenings, we have been visited by some special feathered friends, we’ve been doing some arts and crafts and we’ve even played some games in the garden whilst enjoying the sunshine, we’ve been tending our vegetables in the garden and welcoming our community into the home for our summer dog show , we also attended the grand launch of the new Cotswold designer shopping village in our local town and we were lucky enough to secure a goody bag as well as being among the first to tour the new shops!

Joan is the Winner!

Residents at Ashchurch View Care Home in Tewkesbury were over the moon to hear the Lindt Chocolate was going to be one of the stores opening next door at the new Cotswold Designer outlet this week! And as they had already had a fantastic time celebrating World Chocolate Day earlier this month, they couldn’t wait to visit.

At the official opening, Ashchurch View’s resident Mrs Joan Rich was the very first guest through the Lindt Chocolate doors and was rewarded with a complimentary bag of delicious goodies to enjoy. Joan said: “I have always loved anything to do with chocolate, I don’t think there are many people that don’t! I have eaten so much delicious chocolate today, it’s been my highlight of the week”.

Park Life and Ice-creams

Today we enjoyed our first trip out on our new minibus to Pittville park in Cheltenham where we sat by the lake and watched the swans and ducks and enjoyed our Picnic lunch. It's a beautiful park to walk around and of course, no trip isn't complete without a sweet treat at the ice cream shack too !

Mind, Body and Soul

Just look at the laughter that some adapted sports can bring !

Adapted sports and exercise is a great way to keep active, build strength and most importantly have fun regardless of ability or needs. Here, residents work on their upper bodies and lower body and coordination by practising exercises including throwing and catching. These sessions are accessible for residents of all abilities and Matt from GR Fitness does a great job of engaging everyone to participate !

Crufts Comes to Ashchurch!

Residents and relatives all enjoyed our Dog show, including learning all about breed standards from an experienced Crufts competitor and watching amazing gun dog demonstrations. We had such a fun and enjoyable afternoon meeting these beautiful animals.

Residents' Cheese and Wine Evening

Our residents enjoy an evening of cheese, wine or Port as it's a lovely way to wind down at the end of the day. This week Chef prepared Stilton, Danish blue, cheddar, Red Leicester, Brie, Camembert and more - There's always something for everyone’s tastes!

Residents Give back - National Carer's Week

Residents wanted to show their appreciation to their carers and present them with gifts of thanks for all their hard work. It's these moments and the laughter between us, that makes our jobs so worthwhile and is one of the reasons we all love coming to work!

What a Hoot!

Residents were lucky to be visited by Wren birds of prey, and got up close and handled these amazing animals whilst learning all about them ! The session was enjoyed by everyone and we learned so much about these birds and how they hunt - Residents really had a HOOT of a time!

May at Ashchurch View

May has been a fun-filled month with Ashchurch View bustling with activities. We have enjoyed many long hours in the garden watching the flowers bloom and keeping cool with ice cream and chilled drinks.
We have been out on our new minibus enjoying picnic trips to the local parks. We even visited Evesham country park for some retail therapy and to browse their gorgeous plants, all looking colourful.

We welcomed back to Ashchurch View the local school children who came to play games with us and chat for a while. We’ve also been keeping fit with some adapted sports indoors to suit the abilities of residents.
And we have celebrated the 80th anniversary of VE day in monumental fashion! We had a party and were lucky enough to be joined by the chairman of the Royal British Legion. We welcomed a military drum band to perform for us! We danced, ate an amazing buffet prepared by our talented chef, and we sang along to songs from times gone by!