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
Nutrition and Hydration Week
Residents at Fountains had a splendid time using a selection of fresh fruits, and juices to create tasty mocktails. Our residents really enjoyed trying variety of flavours, the most popular one was ginger and pineapple. We always try to shine light on the importance of maintaining a healthy, and well balanced diet, this helps improve the quality of life.
Mardi Gras Party Comes to Fountains!
We celebrated Mardi Gras in style! We learned the history of Mardi Gras along with a glass of Pink gin & lemonade & other refreshments. We enjoyed listening & dancing to Portuguese music, whilst getting all feathered up, including residents wearing their own masks which they created earlier this week.
Wonderful Visit Brings Back Childhood Memories
Our residents were over the moon when they met our team leaders grandchild. Residents enjoyed gifting daffodils, singing rhymes. This bought back lots of fun memories in which we had a cup of tea a piece of cake & reminiscing about our younger days.
Bowls & Muffins on a Sunny Sunday
Sunny Sunday, some of our ladies have been getting into the swing of things. Starting off with numerous games of crazy bowls followed by a hot cup of tea & delicious homemade raspberry muffins.
Valentines Day Treats
We celebrated Valentines day with a lovely afternoon tea and received entertainment provided by the fabulous Victoria from Dementia Choir. Our team though out the day have been handing out roses & chocolates to all our residents, creating lots of smiles.
A huge achievement for Avril
We would like to introduce you to Avril and Eleonore, these two lovely ladies are permanent residents here at fountains care home. When Avril joined our family at fountains, she was quite unsteady, even with using her walking frame and needed lots of support when trying to get from A to B, she had the insecurity feeling of falling and her knees causing her discomfort.
The carers have been giving Avril a boost of encouragement to engage with others, and take part in activities. Avril has formed healthy friendships with other residents, especially Eleonore, who also uses a walking aid to support herself when being mobile.
During this time Avril has been working on her mobility and gaining more confidence as time goes on. Avril and Eleonore are planned to go on a sunny walk around our lovely gardens. Eleonore and a carer supported Avril with this milestone, taking mini breaks, talking about the view and what they could hear.
Avril was successful!! Avril was extremely satisfied that she was able to make the walk around our gardens and could not thank her friend and carers enough, Avril told staff “I feel so refreshed and happy with myself, thank you”.
Avril and other residents are planning to take more walks and explore more.
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.
