Activities at Crandon Springs Care Home

Barchester’s Crandon Springs, from Wells, got into the Christmas spirit by joining a virtual afternoon of festivities along with the staff and residents at over seventy Barchester care homes across the south of England, Jersey and the Isle of Wight.

Crandon Springs' staff and residents pulled out all the stops by dressing up in their glittery Christmas best to link up with all the other care homes in the south of the country for a whole host of different fun activities culminating in the Barchester Big Quiz of the Year. When they weren’t quizzing, residents enjoyed a feast of festive foods prepared by the home’s chef, Stuart.

General Manager, Natalie, said: “We’ve all had a challenging year so we wanted to ensure the Christmas celebrations for our residents and staff were an extra special treat. ‘Meeting up’ with the other homes virtually has given them all such a boost. We’ve all had so much fun letting our hair down, everyone really enjoyed the afternoon.”

Here at Crandon Springs we are extremely fortunate to have Michael, our music therapist join us every week for our residents living with dementia.

Today Michael has focused our session on infamous Christmas carols and songs. As our video shows, our residents have had a fantastic time.

This morning at Crandon Springs our residents have been handing out gifts for our colleagues here. In a way of saying thank you for their dedication and hard work throughout the year our colleagues are receiving a selection of gift cards, chocolates and fizz!

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Our residents have recently received some personalized Christmas Cards from the students at Wells Cathedral School in the City. Whilst the children have been busy personalizing more cards for the community, our local Mayor, Philip Welch, Kate Norris & Kat King have been busy hand delivering the cards across the city just in time for Christmas. 

Joan, one of our residents here at Crandon Springs said "I think it is lovely to link the two age groups together at any time of year, but particularly Christmas! It has brought the home such a sense of joy and community spirit!" 

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Crandon Springs care home in Wells were treated to an interactive virtual Christmas bauble-making masterclass courtesy of the very talented Jennifer Owen, from Goldfinch. 

Founded by Jennifer, Goldfinch is a floral design studio based in central Somerset that prides itself on delivering out of the ordinary flowers to people who are craving something a bit different. 

Jen's style is eclectic and wild. A keen traveller with constant wanderlust, Jen draws inspiration from the trips she has taken over the years to Asia and the Middle East and her time spent living in Scandinavia to fuel the creative process resulting in arrangements that are a fusion of the exotic and British eccentricity. 

In the UK growing months the vast majority of the flowers that Jen sources are from local growers, most no further than ten miles from her base and where possible she avoids using floral foam and plastics. 

During the workshop, residents were invited to join Jennifer to make unique, hand-made Christmas baubles to gift to friends and relatives or to hang on the home’s Christmas tree.  The baubles were filled with beautiful dried flowers and grasses to create simple yet stunning decorations.

Here at Crandon Springs our colleagues have been celebrating Elf Day to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s Society. 

Our colleagues dressed as festive elves from hat to toe and the residents absolutely loved it. Residents have been taking pictures of the naughty elves working around the home.