Activities at Fountains Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
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.
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
Gentleman's Club
Gentlemen’s club, requested a trip out to the local pub. Here the gentlemen enjoyed fresh bitters and cider along with good topic of conversations about their time working in different backgrounds from being a carpenter to working at Land Rover in Solihull.
Strawberry Picking
Our residents, had a blast from the past as they ventured out to go strawberry picking. Residents reminisced about times in which they had done this as children and enjoyed taking their own families out to pick strawberries.
Royal Ascott
On Memory lane, the residents enjoyed watching the royal ascot. They found it entertaining trying on different hat wear, along with enjoying the refreshments of cakes and sparkling wine.
School's Leavers Performance
What a fantastic treat to be invited by Woodlands infant school to watch the Year 2's leavers show! It was a great performance, we really enjoyed the experience. Margaret, reminisced about her early days as being a teacher & was thrilled to see the show.
Birthday Celebrations with Family & Friends
It is always a great day when we get to celebrate. Michael turned 88 and his family and friends came to celebrate with him in style.
Home support local charity - Kits4causes
Residents, the team and families from Fountains care home in Shirley Solihull are supporting a Kits4causes, a charity that aims to support the game of football to those who wouldn’t usually be given the chance. Residents voiced that they wanted to help the environment and support people and they agreed this charity was a very worthy cause they wanted to be part of.
Upcoming events
VE DAY
Come and join us as we celebrate VE Day at Fountains Care Home where. Everyone is welcome!
Pudding Club
Please feel free to come along to our pudding club which takes place the last Sunday of each month. It is a wonderful opportunity to meet new people and enjoy delicious treats
Reminiscence Café
Join us at Fountains every last Wednesday of the month for our Reminiscence Café!
