Activities at Crandon Springs Care Home
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Katherine Cork
Hello, my name is Kath and I’m the Activities Assistant here at Crandon Springs.
As part of the Activities and lifestyle enrichment team, I help in organising our daily activities, ensuring that all of our residents have a variety of activities to choose from each day. I love enriching our residents’ lives by providing meaningful and engaging activities and, having been both a teacher and care assistant in the past, have a wealth of experience behind me. You'll rarely find me without a smile and I'm very family orientated, and I love how both the residents' and colleagues Crandon Springs feel like a second family to me!
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 Crandon Springs Care Home
High Tea
High Tea
Our High tea is made onsite, from scratch, every morning for unbeatable freshness.
The menu is seasonal, but you can expect things that Indulge Your Sweet Tooth with Our Luxury Yet Traditional Afternoon Tea.
The Amazing thoughtful Ginette our Senior Carer has set up a Memory Café for our Dementia residents on Memory Lane. Ginette sourced from Charity Shops in Wells a Beautiful Tea set and Cake stands.
All had a wonderful afternoon of memories and conversation while Jo, our resident Crandon Springs friendly singer entertained our residents.
Our weekly music Therapy
Our weekly music Therapy
Spending time with the residents listening and dancing to our resident therapy musician Michael Angus,
Another wonderful week of activities
Another wonderful week of activities…. Ladies having Coffee and enjoying our Chef Stu’s famous Chocolate Cake in the Café this afternoon…. All welcome… Please pop in!
Upstairs on Memory Lane we had our amazing talented music therapist Michael come and entertain.
Michael is a regular to Crandon Springs on a Friday morning and our ladies and gentlemen all gather together to watch him create his magic with his guitar.
Michael sings a variety of old songs to provoke memories and stimulate our residents they especially like Sweet Caroline, Que sera sera and Show me the way to go home, which is Michaels grand finally.
They are all sing along most passionately and a few of them even have a little dance.
Earlier in the week a different kind of music. filled the air as we welcomed Brenny a local Country and Western singer from Glastonbury who has over 30 years’ experience in the entertainment industry.
Our residents thoroughly enjoyed her renditions of some old classics and joined in with gusto singing Daisy Daisy .
We look forward to her next visit and she was thanked for a lovely afternoon.
On Memory Lane we have been making butterflies to display at our Alzheimer’s open morning.
Our residents are very proud of their art work and after all their hard work enjoyed a cup of tea and biscuit.
World's Biggest Coffee Morning! We raised an amazing £177.00.
World's Biggest Coffee Morning!!!!!!
We raised an amazing £177.00.
On Friday morning we held our Macmillan Coffee Morning in our stunning Crandon Springs care home in Wells.
The coffee morning was well very supported by our residents, family and friends. We had an amazing selection of lovely homemade cakes and delicious snacks.
Thank you to Jenny, Sue, Colin, our residents, their families and our staff for their generous donations and support.
Michael our resident musician entertained in the lounge and everyone had a good singalong.
The raffle was won by a resident’s family member who was most pleased.
Thank you Sue and Jenny for supporting our activity coordinator, the Amazing Helen with serving cakes, teas and coffee.
A Big thank you to all our wonderful, caring team/staff!!! Always going the extra mile!!!!
Crandon Spring welcomes the Outstanding.........… John Holliday as our new General Manager.
Hello, my name is John and I am the General Manager at Crandon Springs Care Home in Wells.
I have been working within Health and Social Care since 1994 when I started as a Ward Assistant and then Health Care Assistant. I progressed by working with young people in care and then managed two Residential Homes for older people with the title of Operations Manager since 2014 until my move to Crandon Springs in August 2022.
I have a wealth of experience as both a Registered Manager and Business Operations Manager, achieving outstanding ratings at previous homes. I strive for best practice at all times and I am dedicated to achieve the best outcomes for all involved with a total person centred approach. A holistic view is essential to provide a premier experience to all of our residents and their families
OUR SHINING STAR SOPHIE!
OUR SHINING STAR SOPHIE!
Crandon Springs are super proud of our Deputy Manager Sophie who has today been crowned divisional winner for Learner of the Year in the Barchester Healthcare Awards
This came as a total surprise for Sophie and she was absolutely delighted to receive her certificate and badge
Sophie is now invited to attend the winners awards ceremony in October where we are hoping she will be chosen as overall champion
Good luck Sophie!
