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
Poker Face
What a lovely, sociable group of individuals we care for here at Crandon Springs!
Each Friday without fail, residents gather together for a very popular event...
Friday Card Club has become a very regular occurrence each week in our cafe. A good game of cards, delicious beverages and some great company - What more could anyone ask for!
Vegas here they come!
Our New Furry Friend!
Residents here at Crandon Springs have thoroughly enjoy watching Crufts recently, but especially loved some canine company in the form of the gorgeous Teddy, the labradoodle and his lovely owner Jenny.
What joy and smiles he has spread here at the home and the best thing is, that Teddy will be visiting us every Thursday from now on!
St. David's Day & Pancake Day!
YAKI DAH FROM CRANDON SPRINGS!
Recently, here in our beautiful home, we celebrated all things Welsh in honour of St. David’s Day, as well as also honouring Shrove Tuesday (aka pancake day), marking the start of Lent...
Residents enjoyed a wonderful day, which started off with a few songs by the lovely Emma, who serenaded us then later on, with the dulcet tones of Tom Jones ringing through the lounge, many of our residents enjoyed a little dance...(but let's face it, who doesn't love a bit of Tom Jones?!), before learning a little about St. David himself, before being treated to some homemade Barra Brith cake, which is traditionally served in many Welsh households on St. David's day.
Also, both residents and staff enjoyed some delicious pancakes as well as getting involved in a little bit of pancake tossing!
What's your favourite pancake topping?
Bird House Decorating
What a wonderful afternoon was had by some of our lovely ladies here at Crandon Springs recently...
With spring almost 'sprung', our residents enjoyed getting their creative juices flowing, as they decorated some lovely little bird boxes to go out into the Crandon Springs garden.
The ladies concentrated hard as they added some bright colours to these little bird dwellings.
Let's hope our new feathered friends enjoy their efforts as much as the residents enjoyed painting them.
Well done everyone!
What's your favourite bird?
Sporting Memories Foundation
Here at Crandon Springs our team have recently joined a meeting with Sporting Memories Foundation to under more about how the scheme can benefit our residents.
Sporting Memories Foundation for 10 years have been using the power of remembering and talking about sport – along with physical exercise – to tackle dementia, depression and loneliness. They are dedicated to bringing together older adults.
Sporting Memories offer group or 1-2-1 based activities for our residents to enjoy either with other residents or by involving family and friends.
There are over 120 Sporting Memories Clubs across Scotland, Wales and England. The supportive, welcoming and structured sessions they offer are proven to help build cognitive resilience for those living with dementia. Mental and physical well-being increases too.
We look forward to working in partnership with Sporting Memories Foundation.
A special birthday
Residents and colleagues at Crandon Springs' Care Home in Wells have been celebrating a fellow residents special birthday.
Gwyneth was one of Crandon Springs first residents and she has recently celebrated her 95th birthday with us.
Our birthday girl was present with a lovely bouquet of flowers and card signed by all the residents and colleagues at the home. Our activities Co-Ordinator, Tracey did an educational talk on the history of Gwyneth's birth date - including information on the solar eclipse the day she was born!
