Activities at Ashfields Care Home
At Ashfields, we strive to make our care and services as person-centred as we possibly can, and this includes our provision of activities. We will give prospective residents a 'Getting to Know Me' booklet to fill out with their loved ones before their arrival, which includes a little life history and a tick sheet for a vast amount of activities. This enables us to offer bespoke activities and helps us to learn valuable information about residents and what might stimulate them in conversations and trips.
Our specialist activities and lifestyle staff make sure there are always meaningful activities to take part in, such as gardening, baking and trips out to various locations nearby, including local cathedrals, cafés, garden centres and much more.
Residents are encouraged to take part and we try to get every person out at least once a month to places they might be interested in visiting, but it is always their choice, ultimately. We believe that having choice is very integral in helping residents feel that they still have control of their lives.
Activities are provided by everyone in our home, from Carers and specialised activities staff, right through to the admin team.
We are a registered member of the National Activity Providers Association (NAPA), which means that we are always working to make the quality of life of all residents as high as possible by offering person-centred activities that aim to stimulate both mentally and physically.
Xen Greenwood
My name is Xen and I am lucky enough to be the Activities Coordinator here at Ashfields.
I have experience working in care homes in Activities and leisure and lifestyle roles. In my own time I love to go antique shopping and making crafts.
I love being part of the Ashfields team and supporting our residents to live their best lives with fun, interesting, and varied activities available every week. I always feel its important for the residents to have the opportunity to explore new interests as well as keeping up with previous interests and hobbies.
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 Ashfields Care Home
National Cream Tea Day
We celebrated National cream tea day with a delicious spread of tea, coffee, scones, pastries and cakes all baked by our award-winning head chef. A group of our lovely ladies spent the afternoon in our quiet lounge, listening to classical music and loving the excuse to try as many tasty treats as they wanted while enjoyed each other’s company.
A Performance by Steve Carmell
We welcomed Steve Carmell back for a morning of song and dance here at Ashfields, between the incredible live music, sing-alongs and new dance moves the home was a hub of activity. Residents are already looking forward to having him back in the coming months!
Front Garden Revamp
We've been hard at work adding some much-needed colour to our front entrance garden and reception, in celebration of British Flower Week!
Our gardening club planned which plants to use and potted some beautiful petunias and marigolds, built and filled our new bird feeder, gave our front bench a lick of paint in our signature Barchester purple and added some fun garden ornaments.
Rainbow Table
Ashfields have had the pleasure of taking delivery of a new rainbow table for the residents to use and enjoy. These tables are amazing. We have downloaded some popular games for the residents to enjoy, music apps and lots of sensory games and activities.
We have recently used it for a flower arranging tutorial for the ladies who like to flower arrange. We used out private dining area, popped on a video and used different types of flowers for the ladies to arrange for our dining tables.
Display of Vintage Bikes
Ashfields recently had a lovely visit from the local vintage bike club who bought along 8 of their vintage bikes for the residents to look at and enjoy. Sharing lots of wonderful memories they had when they were growing up with these bikes. The sun was shining and the residents managed to enjoy them out in the garden; asking questions, taking a closer look and even taking a seat on one!
Burns Night!!
We celebrated Burns Night here at Ashfield's this evening with some traditional Scottish songs sung by the talented Trevor 'Budgie' Walton, dancing, and toasts to good health.
