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
Mobile Petting Zoo
On February 17th, we had a special visit from Burt’s Mobile Petting Zoo. We see a variety of animals, from snakes to fluffy bunnies; even our gentleman barbers couldn’t leave without petting some of them. One resident even overcome her fear of snakes.
Chinese New Year
Ashfields celebrated Chinese New Year with authentic brightly coloured Chinese fusion foods, traditional Chinese décor and fortune cookies.
All the team at Ashfield’s participated in bringing the Chinese dragon to life, as we all celebrated the Chinese dragon dance.
Burns Night
On Saturday 25th January, we celebrated Burns Night by having a traditional Scottish meal with clootie dumpling and whiskey, followed by live entertainment from a bagpiper.
Return to Castle Museum
Castle Museum has so many pieces of information and memorabilia, however the animals were voted as the best attraction..
Care Home Santa Puts Smile on Children's Faces
Ashfields care home in Norwich made Christmas a little bit more magical for residents, staff and local children by transforming part of the home into a ‘Santa’s grotto’.
Santa, who was played by care home General manager Peter Dean, Dressed up especially for the occasion and gave out gifts to all the children who came along to spend time with him and his real reindeer.
Staff and residents at Ashfield’s care home love celebrating the festive season and were excited about welcoming the local community to join in the fun.
“What a magical day. Everyone was smiling and laughing, really getting into the Christmas spirit. It’s always lovely to be joined by local children here at Ashfields care home and I don’t know who enjoyed it more, the kids or us!”
Halloween Fun
Spooktacular day for everyone at Ashfields care home as we celebrated Halloween. the residents here at Ashfield’s were joined by wild encounters who brought owls to visit the home. The residents were able to hold and stroke these owls and have them fly onto their hands from the other side of the room. This was a great day had by all we learnt so many interesting facts.
Upcoming events
Dementia Café
Please come and join us for our monthly Dementia Cafe. Open door for everyone.
Professional Networking Event
We are delighted to be launching our first networking event at Ashfields. Everyone welcome.
