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
Keeping the community spirit
Today the Fountains residents were due to have a visit from the Woodlands school choir. Due to unfortunate circumstances the school were no longer able to attend. But that did not stop the Fountains team wanting to provide some Christmas spirit to the children of woodlands.
So Michelle, the activities coordinator, went along to woodlands to meet some of the staff to drop off some delicious festive treats for the children, and Barchester goody bags for the staff.
Thankfully, the Christmas choir of Woodlands have recorded their festive performance, and we are looking forward to watching it here at Fountains
Delicious home-made Christmas cake!
Here at Fountains we are so proud to have some amazing chefs who create delicious meals for our residents everyday.One of our amazing chefs has handmade this beautiful and colourful Christmas cake for a raffle. Don't you think it looks amazing!
Christmas Fair
We were so excited for our Christmas Fayre and when the day finally arrived we enjoyed every second of it. The residents, families and visitors came along to support Fountains and to browse the wonderful stalls on offer.
There was also delicious Turkey and stuffing baps with cranberry, Hot chocolate with Baileys and Mulled wine created and served by our amazing chef. When you walked into the home you got a fabulous scent of Mulled wine, Wax melts and cakes.
We ended our day with a festive performance and the residents joined in with the songs and helped create music to accompany the singers.
Baking is good for the soul
Today the residents at Fountains took part in some baking. We had two groups and we worked together to make two delicious sponges.
One sponge was Vanilla and one was Lemon and as we added the ingredients we reminisced about when we used to bake with family and what we used to bake ourselves. The residents smiled as they mixed the ingredients together, especially as the flour was going everywhere
Celebrating 30 years of caring
Today the residents at Fountains helped to celebrate Barchester's 30th Anniversary and we had a fabulous time together. Fountains is so proud to be part of the Barchester family and to help celebrate 30 years of caring.
We started the party with the wonderful Ian who came to sing for everyone and the residents were singing along and tapping their feet. We then had a quiz about the year Barchester first started and followed this on by enjoying some delicious party food and cake.
Birthday celebrations
Here at Fountains, we know how important it is for families to be able to spend time together, and especially to be able to celebrate important events coming up in our residents lives. Today a wonderful family from Fountains spent time together in one of our dining suites to celebrate one of the residents birthdays.
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.
