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
Wow what a day!!!
On the 8th of April we had our Enable Purple Prosecco Party.
Enable is our digital care system, reinventing how we plan, record, and coordinate care using smartphone handsets.
The rollout is in full swing, and thanks to our whole home approach, every member of staff will use Enable to document those precious, life-enriching moments for our residents. A massive thank you to our incredible transposing team for guiding us through this smooth transition.
We can't thank everyone enough for their hard work and commitment to enhancing the lives of our all residents through Enable. We are so excited for the future here at Cherry Trees.
Mother’s Day afternoon tea
We celebrated Mother's Day this year with a scrumptious afternoon tea including a selection of sandwiches, cakes, scones and freshly brewed tea, families were able to get together for this special day with their loved ones and enjoy time spent together whilst enjoying their afternoon tea. It really was a magical day for all.
Hydration and nutrition week
Nutrition and Hydration Week has taken place annually since 2012. Its purpose is to bring people together to highlight and educate on the importance of eating and drinking well on maintaining health and wellbeing. We at Cherry Trees took part in the competition and had lots of fun with food and drink. From milkshakes Monday where we made breakfast fruit smoothies Talking Tea Tuesday, trying different flavours of tea hot and cold and even the queen of hearts was there delivering jam tarts. Wobbly Wednesday was our very own Carmen Maranda delivering fruit and jellies to our residents. Thirsty Thursday where we hosted a mocktail party and had music from Andre Riue. We ended our week with Fab fruity Friday where we had a cheese and wine party with plenty of fruit. Our hydration stations were set up with a variety of fruity waters and everyone had great fun exploring and experimenting with new foods and drinks.
Mad Hatters tea party
So we took a Tumble down the rabbit hole and discovered the Mad Hatter's Tea Party at cherry trees for world book day. Residents came with their best hats and staff dressed up as characters from the classic story book Alice in wonderland. Residents indulged in sweet treats and hot tea served in China cups. They played games such as pin the grin where residents were blindfolded and had to pin the Cheshire cats smile onto his body and the next game we played was build a house of cards and the best house won some prizes.
Residents had a magical afternoon, Marjorie said 'this is the funniest tea party I've ever attended' it really was good fun.
Farewell to Liz
Our lovely residents threw a lovely little tea party for our fabulous Liz who used to be on activities, Liz has decided to retire but it's definitely not the last we will see of her. The residents all had some lovely words to say and it got very emotional. We had lots of laughs and a few tears, far too much cake and a really good catch up. Liz was famous for her reminiscence groups and everyone loved attending. Joan said 'I honestly miss seeing Liz and hearing all her stories from the past, I'm still enjoying reminiscence but Liz was just exceptional at it.
It's not goodbye Liz it's simply see very soon!
Tom serenade’s the residents
On Valentine’s Day this year our amazing carer Tom put on the most spectacular performance for our residents. Tom was on shift for valentine’s day but wanted to give the residents a day to remember so he put down his gloves and picked up his mic, he sang to us all, It was a truly magical day. Marjorie said ‘ Tom is outstanding, he sings so beautifully and we have all had the best day’ The lounge was fit to burst and the sounds of Toms incredible voice filled the corridors. Our hairdresser Jane could hear from the front of the home in the salon and said she just had to join in, Jane said ‘it’s so emotional seeing how the residents are having the time of their lives’ We feel so incredibly proud to have team members like Tom.
