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
Nursery Visit
Residents at Field House had the most fantastic Day with the children from Little Acorns.
Residents decided that they wanted to invite the Nursery for a Christmas party!
The children enjoyed fish and chips, jelly and ice cream followed by party games and the children shared Christmas songs with the residents.
The residents love seeing the children every month and wanted to do something special for them so at our residents meeting they asked if they could have the children for a party with games and music.
Carol Service
Residents at Field House joined the Christmas Carols and Service at ST Laurence’s Church in Stretton.
We enjoy singing Carols and sharing it with the community.
Howard, Peggy and Janet still very much involved with the Church, really enjoyed the time spent seeing old friends.
After we enjoyed tea and a selection of cakes it was such an enjoyable afternoon to start our Christmas celebrations!
Residents would like to thank every for such a beautiful afternoon!
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!
