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
Christmas Bauble Workshop
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.
Elf Day
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.
Christmas Decorations!
Staff and residents at Barchester’s Crandon Springs care home, in Wells, have been decking the halls, getting out the tinsel and unravelling the fairy lights, ready for a whole host of Christmas celebrations.
Crandon Springs residents and staff have been busy decorating the Christmas tree which they all helped to decorate, the tree is looking truly magnificent covered in beautiful Christmas lights, bows, candy canes and sugar mice.
General Manager, Natalie Deverall said: “Christmas is such a magical time and our residents love nothing better than to spend time creating decorations for the home and then we all help to put them up together. It is so special to be able to share these rituals and we all love to see the home decorated and filled with twinkly lights.”
Birthday Celebrations!
At Crandon Springs we have been celebrating a very special birthday for one of our residents Jean.
Our residents and colleagues enjoyed singing Happy Birthday whilst she enjoyed a respite holiday as a birthday treat!
Happy birthday from all of us here at Crandon
Christmas Preperation!
The preparation has begun and the first 8 Foot Christmas tree has been collected!
In preparation for our Christmas Light Switch On event next week, our Home Service Advisor has been to collect our first tree for the display.
Crandon Springs would like to thank and highly recommend Osborne Christmas Tree Farm in Frome. Osborne's Christmas Trees
Tree Donation #2
Another day, another tree!!
All hands on deck today in preparation for our Christmas Light Switch On. Our second Christmas tree has arrived towering in at 9 foot tall!
Crandon Springs would like to extend a warm thank you to one of our local businesses Brownes Garden Centre for supporting our event. We look forward to welcoming you to our event.
