Activities at Cherry Trees Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
Our activities team are constantly striving to mentally and physically stimulate those we support by organising group and individual social events for anyone and everyone to participate in. There are regular outings in the minibus to nearby places of interest, including the local theatre, as well as visits from Pat dogs, musicians and entertainers. We also host bingo, quiz and knitter natter afternoons that we encourage relatives and the local community to attend. Our Gentleman's Club is also open to non-residents every Thursday afternoon from 2:30pm, join us for a tipple of your choice, we have plenty of snacks and chats. For the ladies, our beauty salon provides; hairdressing and nail pampering, you too can enjoy a drink and some well-deserved 'me' time. Activities are one of the most important aspects of a care home, so it is essential that our team are dedicated to ensuring that residents are entertained, and that life at Cherry Trees is fun and active.
Carly Marshall
Carly joined Cherry Trees in March 2023. Her whole life has been working in the care sector and now as lead activity coordinator, Carly said ‘ I absolutely love my role here. I have a real passion to enrich the lives of our residents and make them as special as they can be. I really love to see the faces of our residents when we make these ideas we have come to life, it’s just a magical and rewarding job and I can honestly say I’ve found my forever home’
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 Cherry Trees Care Home
Out with the old and in with the new!
Staff and residents at Barchester’s Cherry Trees care home, in Alcester, celebrated bringing in the New Year in style this New Year’s Eve.
Cherry Trees New Year’s Eve party was in full swing with cheese, wine and Karaoke singing and lots of fun and laughter had by all. General Manager, Debbie Osborne said: “Our residents love a party and New Year’s Eve has to be the best reason to party! We’re all really excited to see what 2025 has to offer us all. We know this year is going to be a fantastic year here at Cherry Trees.”
Margaret Liberty, resident at Cherry Trees said: “It was lots of fun to join in the party, we all enjoy a cheese and wine party and the singing was such a laugh – I love the excitement of New Year!!”
Christmas Shoebox Appeal for Our Furry Four-Legged Friends At The Cotswolds Dogs & Cats Home
Our residents and staff here at Cherry Trees believe cats and dogs deserve a treat at Christmas too!
This year we wanted to make a difference by helping out at The Cotswolds Dogs & Cats Home - CDCH by donating to the Festive Shoebox Appeal. The Cotswolds Dogs & Cats Home this year have found loving homes for 257 animals, giving each of them a new lease on life.
Each adoption is a tale of transformation finding these loyal companions their forever homes.
A huge thank you to everyone who helped us to collect lots of goodies for the Dogs and Cats over the past couple of months.
Our residents had great fun in making up and wrapping these shoeboxes ready for us to deliver. Once ready, we took some residents on an outing in our minibus to The Cotswolds Dogs & Cats Home to drop off our wonderful shoeboxes and pop them under their Christmas tree.
Of course we couldn’t go without saying a little hello to some very cute furry friends!
Mrs. Claus visits Alcester Care home
There was huge excitement at Cherry Trees Care Home as Mrs. Claus came by to visit the residents ahead of her husband’s big night delivering presents on Christmas Eve.
Staff and residents at Barchester’s Cherry Trees care home in Alcester had a wonderful time chatting with Mrs. Claus all about her home in the North Pole.
General Manager, Debbie Osborne said: “We had the best time with Mrs. Claus, she is such a joy spreading festive cheer through our home."
Barb Hulbert, resident at Cherry Trees said: “What a lovely surprise, you were so good to me when I was a little girl, thank you!”
We look forward to seeing Mrs. Claus again next year and from everyone here at Cherry Trees, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!
Alcester Christmas Light Switch On
Our residents here at Cherry Trees braved the rain and enjoyed a wonderful evening supporting Alcester Bunting and Lighting for Alcester’s Christmas light switch on.
Our residents wrapped up warm ready to officially begin our Countdown to Christmas!!
We enjoyed a lovely performance from Alcester’s Silver Band accompanied by hundreds of voices from the Church.
The wonderful 1st Alcester Squirrels did a splendid job at switching on the lights as we counted down with members from our community to see the most magical array of lights beautifully presented throughout our town.
Margaret said, ‘it brings back many happy memories of the years we spent Christmas at home’, and Joe’s hands didn’t stop clapping. We always feel so lucky to be a part of such a fabulous community at Christmas time.
A lovely Trip Out to Chadbury Farm Shop and Café
Residents and staff at Cherry Trees visited the fabulous Chadbury Farm Shop and Cafe where we enjoyed a lovely stroll around the farm shop before indulging in the most delicious selection of drinks and freshly baked cakes.
Our residents had a lovely time looking at all the wonderful Christmas gifts and chocolates alongside the wonderful selection of cheeses and locally sourced produce. Thank you to all the wonderful staff for making us feel so welcome, nothing was too much trouble and our residents really did have a lovely visit.
David said ‘It was just brilliant!’ and Margaret’s already looking forward to a second visit to do a spot of Christmas shopping!
Remembrance Day at Cherry Trees
Remembrance Day can be a time to reminisce and share memories of family members or friends who served our country and to remember the acts of bravery of those who fought in war. Here at Cherry Trees we have a number of residents who remember the Second World War and others who were on active service.
Our wonderful resident David proudly served as a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force managing a team of airmen, planning and executing tactical missions during War. Joan, a remarkable lady who also served in the Royal Air Force as a Wireless Operator sending morse code to aircrew in Bomber Command. Our incredible Peter, a RAF mechanic dealing with the mechanical maintenance of aircraft’s during the War.
Our residents are remarkable people with remarkable stories and we stand incredibly proud here at Cherry Trees. Together with the help of our residents, families, friends and staff, we were delighted to showcase our collaboration project for Remembrance Day creating a beautiful poppy cascade for all to see in and outside our home.
