Activities at Fordmill Care Home
We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.

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Julia Constandache
Senior Activities Coordinator
I’m Julia and I have been working at Fordmill since December 2016. I really enjoy art and studied Graphic Design & Illustration in Dundee. I love being with people and using my skills to improve their quality of life and bring a smile to their faces through crafts, games and all sorts of other activities.
I plan out the activities, either for groups or individuals, according to specific needs and interests. It’s a real joy to get to know residents and their loved ones and I’m grateful to Barchester for giving me the opportunity to work with them and bring some sunshine into the residents’ lives.
Celebrating life at Fordmill Care Home
Annual Summer Fair!
Our annual Summer Fair was a very successful one with lots of relatives and friends from the community joining in for our fun day. We had stalls, a burger van, live entertainment and games for all ages. The Gordon School of Dance “Little Bunnies” stole the show with their beautiful performance.
The weather was very kind to us and everyone had a fantastic time. We had our raffle and managed to raise £800 for our residents' fund.
Friday is fish day!
We all know that Friday is fish day, and as the weather has been absolutely glorious why not having our lunch in the Garden? The sun was shining and we opened our very own “CHIPPY” in our marque right in front garden.
We had such a lovely time and everyone enjoyed their fish and chips and being outside. Our head chef made a great job presenting the meal in boxes like we would buy in the Chippy shop.
Lulu the Thera pet dog
Our Thera pet, Lulu, visits our residents every Wednesday morning. She brings so much joy into the home and everyone is looking forward to her visit. Most of our residents have pets themselves and having pets visiting our home makes it even more homely.
Lulu is a lovely girl. As soon as she arrives at the home, she goes straight into the lounge waiting for the residents to pat, cuddle and give her treats. Then she goes around the rooms visiting every resident.
Dementia Disco Dancing
We all love a good boogie at Fordmill anyway, so having our first Dementia Disco to conclude our Dementia Action Week seemed very fitting. Music brings such joy to everyone in so many different ways, but allowing our residents to reminisce with a select playlist of their favourite songs or bands with gentle volume and lighting, created more inclusive participation.
We were also quite lucky that this coincided with our local community’s annual music festival. We therefore worked together with the festival organisers and allowed residents the opportunity to show support to the festival-goers with a special message for them all. Keeping these connections to our community allows our residents to really feel part of it all and be seen. They could also be heard as they sang their hearts out too!
Piglet Visit was Squealy Good
Our little visitors were weely, weely well-behaved when they made a visit to the local Charleton Fruit Farm to entertain our residents. Fordmill is situated in an agricultural spot with many of our residents being ex-farmers or brought up on the farm, so they were delighted to be in amongst the piggies.
The little squeals as they got their bottoms scratched had everyone in hysterics. Even the piggy smells had residents reminiscing of their early mornings on the farm and cleaning out the pigstys. It was amazing to see the residents so engaged and asking the farmers all about their choosing of variety of pig.
VE Street Party
Our VE celebrations brought lots of different stories and emotions to the surface. In the days prior to the 80th year celebration, residents reminisced about helping mothers with food rations, to the emotional toll of hearing the warning sirens.
We made a display with the help of our local Air Station Museum, which was a great talking point. We therefore decided to mark the anniversary with the happiness that the street party brought all those years ago. From the looks and the menu, to the flags, music and sunshine, our residents partied in style with families and friends, grateful for the moment and paying homage to the people and ways of life that were lost but not forgotten.
Home host Dementia Disco
Staff and residents at Fordmill dusted off their dancing shoes for the launch of their new Dementia Disco initiative which aptly concluded their activities celebrating Dementia Action Week.
Knowing how much their residents living with dementia love to dance and sing, the activities team, Julia and Moira at Fordmill Care Home came up with the genius idea of a dementia-friendly disco. The team also invited along friends and family to the first official dementia-friendly disco.

Home host street party for VE Day celebrations
Fordmill marked the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day in style by throwing a 1940s street party for everyone to enjoy. The residents were joined by family, friends and members of the public who joined staff in commemorating this special day.
Montrose Air Station Museum kindly donated an array of vintage pieces for a display in the home, which garnered lots of interest and started many a reminiscence discussion amongst residents. Fordmill were honoured to work alongside this local organisation to bring their residents this opportunity of nostalgia.
Hopping Mad for Easter
Who doesn’t love a visit from the Easter Bunny! We recently had a visit from our hopping mad friend when a local nursery also joined us to sing to our residents and play some Easter games with them. Our residents had fun decorating eggs with the children then singing along to the Bunny Song.
These intergenerational visits to celebrate important events such as Easter allow us all to reminisce on our own traditions and learn new ways too. Discussions about hot cross buns and their significance turned to… but how do you eat your crème egg when the chocolate appeared? Safe to say everyone had full bellies, and the Easter Bunny was worn out after another year’s antics!
Upcoming events

Community Coffee - Last Friday of the month
We extend a warm welcome for you to join us at our Community Coffee Afternoon - Last Friday of the month from 2.00 pm. All welcome.

Volunteers - Could you make a difference?
If you would like to Volunteer or find out more about how your time could make a difference, we'd love to hear from you.

Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
Come and take a break on us! Enjoy a hot drink with us and there may be a cake or two available.....
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 enrichment
With us, it's all about making every day meaningful for our residents. We do this through our Life Enrichment programme, designed to suit the needs of each person in our care, and support individuals in retaining their joy, purpose and life skills for as long as possible. We offer a range of daily activities for individuals to get involved in, whether that's socially as part of a group, solo or with a team member, ensuring everyone receives the support that adds enrichment to their life.
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