Activities at Cherry Trees Care Home

Cherry Trees care home, has entered into the Alcester window wonderland to celebrate 20 years of serving the local community. Alcester window wonderland is a community project where the community transform Alcester into a magical outdoor gallery every January. 

Staff, residents and guests commemorated this special occasion with a games day complete with skittles, hoopla, and balloon tennis followed by a special cake made by the kitchen staff.  

Cherry Trees has built up excellent reputations within its local communities. The home regularly holds events and activities for its residents and surrounding neighbours.

General Manager, Debbie Osborne said: “It is important to recognise the hard work of our staff here at Cherry Trees care home.  For the past 20 years, we have provided a caring home for our residents as well as the best possible environment for our staff.  Today not only enables us to celebrate their hard work, but it's also an opportunity to thank the residents, their relatives and friends who have made Cherry Trees such a loving home.”

December we had the privilege of our very own carers Tom and Annette come and perform for us here at Cherry Trees.

We were truly blessed to have them perform for us on Christmas eve and the residents had a magical day listening to them sing.

Marj said ‘its honestly the best performance we have ever had and I do hope they sing for us again soon’ Meg said ‘ it’s just magical’  

We all look forward to many more performances to come and feel so lucky to have such amazing carers who go above and beyond for our residents here at Cherry Trees.

Cherry Trees commemorated the signing of the Armistice Day agreement on the day that the guns finally fell silent. We joined the rest of the United Kingdom in holding a two-minute silence at the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day, of the eleventh month. As well as marking Armistice Day by wearing poppies and observing the national two-minute silence, residents took part in many crafting activities as well as trips out to St. Peters church in Wellesbourne.

Residents visited the church where we saw the stunning poppy cascade of 8,000 knitted poppies which had been installed down the side of St. Peters church tower. It was a huge community project; the bright red poppy cascade was originally meant to include 4,000 poppies but the enthusiasm for the project meant more and more poppies were created.

Audrey, a resident at Cherry Trees, said: “I've never seen something like this, it's so beautiful and made me feel like crying, it was very emotional” Anthea said, “It is very important that we keep the memories of those who fought alive and that we also think about those involved in conflicts around the world today.”

This afternoon we had a visit from the lovely St.Benedict's sixth form students who helped us in making our painted rocks which we will be displaying in our memorial garden, keep an eye out for more information regarding our beautiful memorial garden coming soon!!

Residents enjoyed a lovely morning with NV Arts and Health.  We showed our creative sides in creating colourful fabric art ready for our patchwork quilt, so watch this space as we look to sharing our final result! We definitely added a splash of colour to our day.

Scrabble club, arts and crafts and pamper sessions were on the agenda of the day today, so much is always going on at Cherry Trees.