Activities at Awel-Y-Mor Care Home
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.
Jo & Julie
Awel-Y-Mor's activities team consists of three Activities Coordinators, each having a specialist unique role within the group, including work in the multi-sensory concept, as well as organising days out, trips to sporting events and pop concerts, and arranging themed days. Jo has been with us for over ten years, beginning her Barchester career as a Carer, and Julie joined us in 2018.
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 Awel-Y-Mor Care Home
Elvis in the building
This week residents at Awel y mor enjoyed a visit from Jimmy Elvis after a few games of bingo.
They enjoyed listening to lots of Elvis classics, along with a bit of Roy Orbison and John Denver, they had fun singing and clapping along, and also put a few requests for their favourite songs in.
It was a lovely happy atmosphere all afternoon and all residents said they thoroughly enjoyed.
Donation to our local School
We have donated Sensory Equipment to our local Secondary School, who are setting up a Well Being room for pupils to use. This is also our Pen Pal scheme School. We will be visiting when the room is setup.
Live Virtual Event: Flower Arranging
We all had a really fun afternoon doing the Virtual Flower Arranging Demonstration for table decorations for valentine’s Day.
There was plenty of fun and Laughter, and the residents really enjoyed, and produced beautiful table decorations. The residents have requested to this on a regular basis. So I think there will be plenty of Green Fingers!!
A Day of Celebration
On The 7th Of February we had a day of Celebration.
We had a visit from our CEO Pete Calveley, Divisional Director Angela Bradford and our regional Manager Claire Brewer.
The visit was to thank and reward the staff for our recent amazing inspection report and the resulting internal recognition as an outstanding service.
This is a massive achievement as we are only one of 14 home out of 260 to achieve this rating.
Every staff member was rewarded with £500 love to shop voucher.
What an amazing team we have.
Creative Pottery
Residents had a great pottery afternoon here at Awel y mor.
Some residents enjoyed making little Easter figures so they are ready in time to paint for Easter, one resident even made a Gonk which was very impressive!
Residents enjoyed being shown how to make daffodils and attach wire to them, and after having a go at making them are now looking forward to painting them at the next pottery session.
Bringing in the New Year
Residents at Awel y mor enjoyed a lovely new year’s Day.
We had a chocolate fountain with lots of fruit, New year’s dinner, and activities in the afternoon.
We listened to lots of music including Auld Lang syne and singing along.
