Activities at Fountains 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.
Louise Crooks
Hello I am Louise, my first role with Barchester was caring for our residents. Previously I worked in an early years environment for 17 years where I organised activities and events. I am thrilled to now be Activities Lead and being able to continue enriching the life’s of our lovely residents here at Fountains.
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 Fountains Care Home
Resident creates tapestry for local school
Margaret Botterill, a resident at local care home Fountains in Shirley is a 91 year old lady and Fountains is now her home. Margaret has previous connections with Coventry.
Margaret created a tapestry which took her approximately twelve months to complete. Although Margaret did not attend Blue Coat school she decided to make a tapestry of the old buildings which still exist today. Margaret decided to kindly donate the tapestry to Blue Coat School and it is now taking pride of place in Mrs Shelley’s office, Head Teacher at the school. Joel who is hostess at Fountains supported Margaret by communicating with the school and taking over the tapestry.
Lifestyle Enrichment & Activities
Hobbies and interests, remain important at any age. We enjoy being able to create the right environment for our residents to explore different activities to help keep them stimulated.
Easter Bunny delivers Chocolate Eggs
It was 'hopping madness' when our very own Easter bunny came and delivered all of our residents Easter eggs. Our Easter bunny bought happiness & put smiles on on everyone's faces.
Bunny Hunt for Easter
Easter Egg Hunt!! What a wonderful afternoon we had, full of fun and games. It was lovely to get together, watch the children enjoying their Easter bunny hunt and celebrate Easter.
World Book Day
For world book day we had our pen pals from woodlands school come and join us for the afternoon. The children brought their favourite books. They shared them with our residents who were more than happy to read with them and ask questions. Our residents were pleased to finally meet their pen pals.
Our residents comments about the visit “I was so pleased, and happy to see so many smiling faces”
“it’s good to see children still enjoying a book!”
Flower Arranging
Here we have our lady Jane, who is just passionate about flowers. Jane really enjoys getting involved and being able to make the arrangements for the vases in our communal areas. Jane also helps to identify the flowers, teaching and sharing her knowledge with others.
Upcoming events
Reminiscence Cafe
Please join us for our monthly Reminiscence Cafe where we will pick a topic and talk about our memories, whilst making new friends and enjoying some refreshments.
Room for Hire
Looking for somewhere to hold your meeting or event? We have a meeting room that is available for free to members of the local community and professionals.
