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
National Cream Tea Day
Tea was introduced to the UK in the 17th century by the East India Company but its popularity grew when Catherine de Braganza (daughter of Portuguese King John IV) married Charles II in 1662 and brought the ritual of drinking tea to the English Royal Court.
When and where the cream tea originated though is not cast in stone. Local historians in Tavistock, Devon, believe putting cream and jam on bread began as far back as the 11th century after studying ancient manuscripts leading up to the 900th anniversary of the granting of Tavistock’s Royal Charter by King Henry I in 1105.
Every year on the last Friday in June, British tradition comes alive on National Cream Tea Day & we certainly celebrated in style!
Residents, relatives & members of the local community tucked into our delicious home made scones whilst enjoying live entertainment from Mini Concerts.
A huge thank you to Hugo & Alice Special Events for our beautiful balloons.
Thank you to all that came & we can’t wait to do it all over again.
National Cup Cake Day
Supporting our local community is not only a promise we’ve made, but a promise we’ll keep.
To celebrate National Cupcake Day, Home Manager Arvinder & Home Services Advisor Paul, were out & about in our local community expressing their thanks to healthcare professionals for all of their hard work with a box of freshly made cup cakes from our talented kitchen team.
Some of the incredible people we visited today were Bluebird Care Solihull, Home Instead Solihull & Solihull Hospital and Community Services NHS
THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO & we hope you enjoyed the cakes!
Keeping The Local Community At The Heart Of Everything We Do
We were delighted to welcome Penny from Alzheimer's Research UK to our home to discuss ways in which we could support the amazing work they do.
We also met with the incredible Kerry from Citizens Advice Solihull Borough CAB to drop off some goodies for the team and chat through some really exciting new ideas - Watch this space!
We then stopped by to meet Gill, the community champion at Tesco, to discuss our upcoming ‘Meet The Manager’ event on Saturday 2nd July.
We’d also like to thank Mandy, who stopped off to kindly donate some beautiful books and CD’s to our family of residents, they really are very much appreciated.
Grow Your Own
When you experience life at Fountains, you are supported to continue life long hobbies and interests, allowing you to continue being the person you are and have always been. Exactly how it should be.
Along with opportunity to build new friendships, bond over shared passions & remaining connected, Fountains is so much more than a care home, it’s a choice of lifestyle.
Here are some of our green fingered residents who were keen to sample some of the strawberries they’d been growing in our beautiful gardens over the last few months.
We can’t wait to tuck into more tasty treats, all home grown and made with love!
Fountains - Proud Sponsor Of Healthcare Award
Creating long lasting, meaningful connections with organisations within our local community is something we hold very close to our hearts.
As proud sponsors of this years ‘Healthcare Of The Year Award’, Fountains were honoured to join the first ever Solihull carer friendly awards, organised by the amazing Carers Trust Solihull
Held at Village Hotel Club, nominees from across the local areas were invited to an evening of celebration as we recognised the hard work, dedication and incredible efforts shown.
The team at Fountains and everyone at Barchester Healthcare would like to wish Jill Bonehill from Citizens Advice Solihull Borough CAB a huge CONGRATULATIONS for winning the ‘Healthacare Of The Year Award’ for all of her hard work helping people with being able to live independently and being an active part of the local community through social prescribing - you’re official award will be with you very soon.
Pictured with General Manager Arvinder, Home Services Advisor Paul & Kerry Turner CEO of CAB, Chelcy Bryant who accepted the award on Jill’s behalf said:
‘Jill will be delighted to receive this award! She has helped so many people remain independent at home. Thank you Fountains Care Home for sponsoring this award and celebrating the amazing work Jill has done’
We’d just like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved with organising the event last night and extend our congratulations to all the incredible nominees and winners - you really are all superhero’s.
I scream, You scream, We all scream for ice cream!
Today our residents and staff team were visited by ‘Mr Yummy’s Ice Cream Van’ for a well deserved treat in this beautiful weather.
Sauce? Flakes? Sprinkles? The choices were endless and the smiles say it all.
We’d like to say a HUGE thank you to Mr Yummy who kindly donated all of our ice creams completely FREE of charge.
Upcoming events
May Life Enrichment
We hope to see the end of the April showers and look forward to sunnier days in May. Please come and brighten our day and join us for our May 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.
Don't Dine Alone
We know meal times can be a lonely time for some people, that's why we're inviting local older people to join us for lunch every Friday from 12.30pm.
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.
