Activities at Field House Care Home
The Activities Coordinators here at Field House are always keen to learn about residents' interests and hobbies, tailoring meaningful activities to the likes and dislikes of those we support. Our mission is to ignite the past, appeal to current interests and embrace new ones, improving quality of life whilst stimulating the mind and senses. Activities are carried out via small groups or individually, supported by local volunteers. We have access to a range of local community facilities and nearby places of interest, prompting community engagement, and hold special events at the home, where we are entertained by guest vocalists and performers, with 'The Quiz Master' being a fan favourite.
Caroline Davis
Hi, I'm Caroline and I joined Field House in 2021 from another Barchester home. I have worked in care for the last 30 years and a big part of that has been with Barchester.
Here at Field House, I organise a variety of activities and social events within the home and in the community, such as gardening club arts and crafts, weekly exercise sessions along with live singers and musicians every month. We are also keen on regular outings to local landmarks, museums, cafes and shopping centres.
In my job, I'm able to develop excellent relationships with residents and their families providing the support they need. I am very passionate about my job role as it is very important to us as a team that every individual is able to live the life they wish and feel fulfilled in their everyday activities maintaining past hobbies and finding new ones.
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 Field House Care Home
Decking the Halls
Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas here at Field House!
Residents all working together to put up our first of four Christmas trees, enjoying Christmas songs, it really felt very special.
Residents chose to take charge of the tree, Peter our Resident ambassador said he would sort out the tree lights and the ladies stood back to check he was doing a good job.
Knitting through November Challenge
Field House Residents supported Dementia UK Knit through November and it was a great success!
The ladies enjoyed extra knitting groups throughout November to raise money for Dementia UK.
We have enjoyed having friends and family support us too!
And we always do our knitting over a lovely cup of tea and cake.
Poppy Appeal
Residents held their fundraiser for the RBL.
We had a lovely time with visitors and enjoyed tea and cake!
The residents had been very busy making our own felt poppies to sell for the poppy appeal, which were very popular!
It was an enjoyable morning and we raised £55 for the RBL!
Soup Lunch Fundraisers
Residents asked about running our own monthly soup lunch to raise money for local charities.
As one of our residents goes out regularly with the local Parkinsons group, we decided our first soup lunch would raise money for them.
We held our first soup lunch in October and we were over the moon with the support we received, helping us to raise £85.00 for Church Stretton Parkinson's group.
For our second soup lunch fundraiser in November, we decided to raise money for the Church Stretton Dementia Café, the group do a lot of support for local people in the area and we just wanted to help them out and thank them!
Community night out
Here at Field House, our residents love a night out, especially when there's live music and dancing involved!
We ventured out on Saturday evening to support Culmington Village on an evening of being entertained by the fabulous 'The Bluebird Belles', performing the classic style music from the 1940's.
The residents also enjoyed music from the 50's, 60's and 70's, and Janet couldn't wait to get everyone up dancing!
All the other guests at the event welcomed us and thanked us for supporting their village and joining them on this fantastic evening of live music, dancing and entertainment.
Pudding Club is another success!
Here at Field House, we love our puddings, so are very excited when it comes to Pudding Week!
Our 'Pudding of the Day' this time around, were chosen by Jean and Brenda.
Jean chose a steamed plum pudding with custard - just the way her mum would have made it for her family!
Brenda chose warm scones with homemade damson jam, which were delicious. Brenda told the other residents about all the fruit she used to grow in her garden. Her family would always look forward to harvesting it so she could make special treats for them all. Jam with scones would always be the family favourite .
It was lovely having visitors to our monthly pudding club, too.
