What types of care does Balclutha Court Care Home offer?

Balclutha Court Care Home offers Nursing care, Dementia care, Respite / Short stay.

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.

Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Karen Dillon

Head of Activities

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

Visit our Facebook page to keep updated with all the activities in our home

A Double Celebration at Balclutha Court

Not only did we recently celebrate Roslyn Shadlock being named Employee of the Month for January, but we were also delighted to bestow upon Carer, Phil McDonald, a 15 Year Service Award for his contributions to the home over the past decade-and-a-half.

They can both be seen here celebrating - congratulations!

Burns Day Celebrations

Residents had a lovely time celebrating the life of Scotland's most famous poet here at Balclutha Court.

Employee of the Month - January

Congratulations to Carer, Roslyn Shadlock, who was named Employee of the Month for January here at Balclutha Court.

Christmas Celebrations

We celebrated Christmas Jumper Day on 13th December. We even had a special appearance from our own Elf on the Shelf.

Employee of the Month - November

Kitchen Assistant, Mark Peel, is our Employee of the Month for November. Mark has only worked at Balclutha since July but has already proved very popular with the staff and residents. He was nominated for being kind, caring, friendly and will do anything for the residents and the team.