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
Real Bread Week activity
Fountains residents enjoyed getting busy in the kitchen to celebrate Real Bread Week.
We made a delicious selection of breads from savoury white rolls to seeded brown loaves, and a fruit bread too.
We had a wonderful time sharing baking stories and reminiscing whilst waiting for the dough to rise.
The smell of fresh bread filled the home and had us all excited for the finished result. I think you’ll agree they looked fantastic.
We look forward to celebrating again next year!
World Wildlife Day Talk
To celebrate World Wildlife Day Fountains’ residents enjoyed a talk from our wildlife expert Simon Watts.
Simon gave us a wonderful presentation on English wildlife from the allotments in the West Midlands.
Our residents were fascinated with stories and the variety of species, from foxes to squirrels, owls, bats, and birds too.
It was a fantastic afternoon and we certainly look forward to welcoming Simon again soon.
World Book Day fun
To celebrate World Book Day fountains residents enjoyed reading a selection of children’s stories to be sent to the children at Woodland’s School.
The children sent us a selection of videos to celebrate National storytelling week so we decided to return the kindness.
Our residents loved reading the stories as it reminded them of happy memories reading to their own children.
Fountains care staff enjoyed getting involved in World Book Day too and dressed up as their favourite characters from Harry Potter.
They certainly had our residents smiling.
Residents enjoyed a cosy morning spent reading a book of their choice with a cup of tea. Our book trolley is available for daily reading on all our communities.
We look forward to celebrating World Book Day again next year.
Breakfast networking
What a great way to start the day - a cooked breakfast whilst networking with like-minded local experts.
That's how we started our morning yesterday at Fountains as we hosted LENS networking (Local Expert Networking)ran by Orton Media.
We all enjoyed a very interesting presentation from Ann-Marie of The Wilkes Partnership before finding out each others area of expertise.
Thank you to those that attended and to our kitchen team who came in especially early to ensure the breakfast was ready and delicious.
Congrats to Gail for winning the biz card draw.
"Flipping" fun on Shrove Tuesday
Fountains residents and staff enjoyed getting into the spirit of Shrove Tuesday with some Pancake flipping fun!
Our resident John is the current winner of our competition with 10 flips in a row!
Remember you still have time to enter our competition… send us your videos and use the hashtag ‘#CommunityPancakeCompetition’
To end the day our residents enjoyed homemade pancakes in the company of friends.
Happy Pancake Day everyone!
St David's Day
Fountains residents enjoyed a Welsh themed dining experience to celebrate St David’s Day today.
Our home was filled with beautiful daffodils
and had everyone excited for spring.
Our wonderful kitchen team prepared a selection of delicious Welsh treats for all to enjoy.
We had Leek Soup to start, Traditional Welsh Cawl Stew for main and a second option of Welsh Onion Cake. For dessert our residents tucked into a Welsh Amber Pudding.
The food went down a treat and everyone enjoyed socialising with friends with a glass of wine too.
Happy St David’s Day to all that celebrated today!
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.
