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
Trip to Cheddar Gorge!
Today our residents hit the roads to enjoy the sunshine and a scenic drive! Our residents and colleagues all jumped on our Crandon Springs mini bus and enjoyed a visit to Cheddar Gorge. The mini bus tour was followed by some fun facts about the Gorge.
Here at Crandon Springs Care Home our life enrichment co-ordinators role is to ensure there is a variety of activities every single day. 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.
Naming The Local Ducklings
Following on from our most recent mini bus trip to The Bishop's Palace our residents have been closely following the newest family of cygnets.
This weekend our residents have entered their nominations to name the cygnets as a part of the Bishop's Palace competition. Over a cup of tea a lengthy debate began!
The residents are proud to enter the following names as suggestions for the new cygnets in the City!
- Samantha
- Leon
- Suzie
- Simon
- Margaret (our Resident Margaret nomaited herself to be named after a cygnet!)
We look forward to watching the cygnets grow into beautiful animals and enjoy our local moat. Until our next trip to the Palace, our residents will enjoy the Swan Cam.
Thank you Bishop's Palace for allowing the local community to enter!
Generous Donation
Crandon Springs recieved a delightful visit from Ella, the Community Champion at Tesco Wells Tesco this week. Ella very kindly donated a box of healthy snacks and also sweet treats for our residents here at Crandon Springs.
Our General Manager, Natalie Deverall said "It was lovely to meet Ella and her donation was so kind and well recieved! Our residents were extremely grateful. We look forward to working in partnership with Tesco, Wells in the future alongside the local community."
Armchair Exercise
Staff and residents at Barchester’s Crandon Springs care home in Wells were treated to an armchair work out courtesy of the Green Goddess, Diana Moran, and Shackleton’s furniture company, followed by a mindfulness session led by Shackleton’s Emma Raybould.
Diana rose to fame as a glamorous fitness guru on BBC’s Breakfast Time in the 1980’s and has made an outstanding contribution to improving the health and wellbeing of people in the UK. She now brings that experience to Shackletons as their Health and Wellness Adviser.
Shackletons and Diana both celebrate the importance of exercise, a healthy diet and mindfulness, particularly in later living. Diana has been working with Shackletons since 2019 to promote their bespoke seating. She has produced a series of exercise videos extolling the virtues of gentle exercise in a Shackletons chair.
Diana says “Even if we spend more time sitting than walking, we can still maintain wellbeing at any age if we sit with the proper support, posture, correct height and balance in our chairs. Which is why Shackletons is the perfect company.”
Lucy Tomlinson, Resident Experience Manager for Barchester Healthcare, commented: “We have been using technology to keep our residents and patients connected with their loved ones as well as offer virtual events, entertainment and activities throughout the pandemic. We are excited to work with our amazing partners like Shackletons and Diana Moran to bring a wide range of fantastic experiences into our homes for all to enjoy.
Mini Bus Trip
Our residents at Crandon Springs Care Home hopped onto our brand new mini bus for our first ever day trip.
Although the weather was windy our residents were in high spirits. Together we went for a walk around Bishop's Palace on the hunt for Wells' newest cygnets!
Next week we have a driving tour of Cheddar Gorge!
Happy 95th Birthday Peter!
On the 7th of May at Crandon Springs we celebrated quite the occasion. Peter, one of our first residents celebrated his 95th birthday!
The day involved a lot of birthday cards, family visitors, champagne and a home made chocolate and salted caramel cake.
Happy birthday Peter.
