Activities at Balclutha Court Care Home
At Balclutha Court our resident’s happiness is extremely important to us. We all know that a large part of this is keeping active and continuing to enjoy your interests and hobbies. At Balclutha Court, we have regular activities including arts and crafts, music, entertainment, trips to local attractions such as canal trips, safari parks and many more. Our activities team are always busy organising events, entertainment and excursions with the broadest possible appeal and many of our residents see living at Balclutha Court as an opportunity to develop a new skill or interest. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
Karen Dillon
Karen Dillon is our Head of Activities and has worked within the home since 2005, starting out as a Carer. Karen is very outgoing and full of fun. She has many hobbies, with arts & crafts being her favourite, and her passion for this can be seen in our life enrichment programme.
Karen is supported by Kay Millar and Anita Marsh, between them they ensure that residents are happy and have loads of fun.
They are very keen to involve the residents in the decision making within the home to enhance their experience. They take part in the residents' meetings, catering forums and assist the General Manager in interviewing new staff members.
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 Balclutha Court Care Home
Brain games
They say if you don’t use it you lose it, so here at our home we like to keep our brains active with lots of word games to keep the cogs ticking.
Obviously we like to keep it fun too.
Water colour class
Here at Balclutha we enjoy lots of different types of arts and crafts.
Water colour painting just happens to be one of our favourites and lucky for us is also part of our regular activities programme.
Nursery visits
We do love it when our wee pals from our local nursery come for their regular visits.
They always bring a smile to our faces and defiantly keep us on our toes.
Indoor golfing
Keeping active is important to us here at Balclutha Court and we like to find different ways to do so. Obviously the more fun the better. We love a wee game of putting and it definitely keeps us moving and laughing at the same time.
Scrabble Art
Arts and crafts is a regular part of our activities program and a favourite among our residents. We like to try new projects and love to make keepsakes for our loved ones. We tried our hands at some scrabble art recently and are so happy with the results.
We love chocolate chip cookies!
We do love to bake here at Balclutha court. So chocolate chip cookie day was a welcome occasion. We mixed our ingredients, whisked our wee hearts out, licked our spoons and baked them with the help of our awesome kitchen team. The best bit of the day was obviously the tasting. Delicious stuff.
