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
Weekly sporting sessions
Fountains residents continue to enjoy their weekly sporting sessions with Chloe our instructor from ‘Everyone 4 Sport’.
Last week they took part in an inclusive Basketball class and had great fun together.
Chloe ensures that everyone can be a part of the session no matter what their abilities may be. Our residents love the classes as it’s an opportunity to share in the enjoyment with friends and be competitive together.
Pamper sessions
Fountains residents love relaxing and feeling pampered, thanks to our wonderful beautician Beauty at Home - Georgina Grace
Georgina provides beautiful manicures and hand massages, for both our male and female residents.
The sessions give everyone the opportunity to unwind, enjoy a chat and feel their best.
London Fashion Week
To celebrate the beginning of London Fashion Week, Fountain’s residents enjoyed a ‘step back in time’ to look at the history of fashion.
We admired the clothing designs from the 40’s 50’s 60’s and 70’s, enjoyed watching catwalk shows and took a look at some of the most iconic models from Twiggy to Kate Moss.
Our residents loved sharing stories on their favourite outfits and were amazed at the way the trends have come back around.
It was then time to get crafty, we enjoyed a creative afternoon designing our own outfits using paints, colours and a variety of materials.
We had a wonderful day reminiscing and created the most beautiful designs too. We certainly look forward to celebrating it again next year.
Happy birthday Colin
At Fountains we make sure that everything we do is person-centred.
When we heard Colin’s birthday was coming up we asked him, “If you could have any meal for your birthday, what would you choose?” He replied “A lamb roast dinner with mint sauce and a Coca-Cola.”
Well here you are Colin!
From all of us at Fountains, we wish you a very happy birthday - and a wonderful 91st year.
National Storytelling Week
Fountains residents were delighted to receive a selection of videos from the children at Woodlands Infant School to celebrate National Storytelling Week.
Each video was of a different student sharing their favourite book and the reasons why they enjoy reading it.
We also received a wonderful video of all of the children reading “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”.
It certainly made us all smile here at Fountains. We were all reminiscing on happy days learning to read at school as well as teaching grandchildren to read too.
Thank you to Woodlands school for celebrating with us.
Spreading love in the community
Fountains continued to spread the love for Valentine's Day out into the community.
Age UK Solihull run a Luncheon Club with live entertainment at The Olton Tavern every Monday for our older community in Solihull.
For Valentines Day they held a special event and Fountains chef's lovingly baked some amazing cakes to accompany their afternoon tea, as well as a special valentine's birthday cake.
Lorraine Shannon, Home Services Advisor, went along to surprise them with a gin & tonic cake, a walnut and coffee cake and a selection of gluten free cupcakes.
Love was definitely in the air
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.
