Activities at Elgar Court Care Home

Welcome to the day in the life of our Activities leader Maria. Catch her if you can, as Maria is always busy creating, running arts and crafts classes, driving Mini bus Mable on outings with residents and generally being a super duper, indispensable member of our team. From show stopping, award winning celebration cakes, (remember our Christmas bauble cakes we donated to the food banks to our latest awesome homage to Karl Faberge’s Lillies of the Valley egg), to wheeling round the pre-dinner drinks trolley to relaxing and soothing aromatherapy hand massages – which resident adore, Maria is another valued member of Elgar Court!

We have been very blessed with Pets As Therapy, the charity visiting our home since we opened, and we are pleased to announce that we now have a permanent mascot, Noodle.  

Noodle doesn’t live at our home permanently, but he is another daily friendly face that residents can enjoy and cuddle and take for walks!

Our Activities room has become a really focus for our residents in recent months, with everyone wanting to explore the range of activities we have to offer.  Alice (103 years) produced the most wonderful watercolour floral abstracts, and we just watched in awe at the beautiful work she produced – we are hoping to run an art competition with the Malvern community in the next few months, so watch this space!

Meet Cherry Hill, MBE, our first resident to move into Elgar Court.  Born in Malvern, Cherry was a Model Engineer trailblazer in her time.  Known for her detailed scale models of steam vehicles, Cherry is considered to be one of the greatest model engineers of all time, and has built nearly 20 detailed scale models of steam vehicles, including Victorian models - which each took her approximately 7,000 hours to make, and are fully operational. There have even been numerous books and magazine articles written about Cherry and awards!

We are honoured Cherry has chosen to live with us, and enjoy daily life in our home.  From enjoying daily exercise, music concerts and trips out to name a few, Cherry has fully embraced the easier way of life at Elgar Court – including our lovely home baked chocolate cakes!

Life is what you make it, and it doesn’t stop when you move to our residential home – it gets better! 

This week, residents popped into our local Waitrose for a coffee and a browse around to stock up on little extras. Joan was a frequent shopper at the Malvern branch and all staff knew Joan and stopped to talk to her.  Life’s little pleasures are connecting with people and making their day – and Joan certainly made their day as they had all missed her!

We had the pleasure this week of entertaining our Malvern policing team Becky, Dave and Kevin.

Residents enjoyed hearing how Malvern is a lovely safe place with them in charge, and seeing demonstrations of their policing toolkit – handcuffs, body cameras, smart water tagging sprays, tasers and batons!  And of course, reassured that these are not needed with the good folk of Malvern!   

However, Maria our Activities Co-ordinator felt what it’s like being on the wrong side of the law when she tried on the hancuffs!  Luckily PC Dave had his keys and safely handed our beloved Maria back to us!

Thank you for coming to see us, and please do call by again and use our “Take a Break” service that is open to all our Emergency services workers.  We offer complimentary refreshments to eat in or take away to all local Police, Nurses, Doctors, Fire teams and Ambulance crews – We look forward to welcoming you soon!