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.
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
Quiz time
We like to keep our minds active here at Balclutha and enjoy nothing more than some trivia games as part of our regular weekly programme.
We enjoy it even more when we partake in a wee dram to keep our mental muscles lubricated.
Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day always has a special place in our hearts here at our home.
This year we commemorated the day with some reminiscing, poppy making, trivia and a war time sing along. We laughed and we cried but most importantly, we remembered our fallen heroes and what they gave up for our freedom.
The Wallace Collection
Residents across our services had a lovely time joining Emily and Marie-Therese from the Wallace Collection, for a virtual introduction to Reubens' Rainbow Landscape.
Residents truly enjoyed the sensory walk through one of the museum’s most famous landscape paintings.
Everyone who joined had a wonderful experience and can’t wait to put their creative skills to the test by painting some landscapes of our their in the coming days!
Arts & Crafts
We are very creative here at our home and love our arts and crafts sessions. In keeping with our Halloween theme this month we made our own spooky house tea lighters to decorate our window ledges - from building them to painting the finished products we enjoyed every minute of this craft.
Mecca Bingo trip
We do love an outing here at Balclutha and recently took a wee trip to our local Mecca Bingo hall for a hot roll, cup of tea and a game of bingo. We had a great time and were treated like royalty by the staff at the hall.
On our way home we took in some of our favourite local sights and enjoyed a fish supper by the water’s edge. A great day was had by all.
Nursery visit
We love a Tuesday morning when our “Balclutha Bairns” visit. We generally do different activities each week but a solid favourite with both the kids and adults is arts and crafts.
With Halloween soon approaching we decided to make some spooky art and as always we had a great time. Some kids gave their pictures to the residents and others took them home for family.
Upcoming events
May
We extend a warm invitation to you to join us throughout the month of May. All welcome.
Looking for a place to host a meeting?
We have a meeting room available to local professionals and community groups. For more information contact the home.
Community Cafe - Last Thursday of the month
We extend a warm invitation for you to join us at our monthly Community Cafe, come along and make new friends! All welcome.
Calling all Emergency Services
Calling all emergency services personnel and district nurses, come and take a break with us! There maybe a cake or two available....
Volunteers - Could you make a difference?
Do you have any spare time? your time could make a difference to someones day! For more information on Volunteering we'd love to hear from you.
Respite - Are you looking for a little care break?
If you're caring for someone, a short stay at Balclutha Court coluld provide the rest and relaxation that you need.
