Activities at Fountains Care Home

Fountains residents and staff enjoyed a week of activities to commemorate Armistice day and Remembrance Sunday. 

From Art Workshops, to Musical Memories Sessions and religious services too, there was something for everyone to enjoy.

We began with a craft club to create our own Poppy Display in our reception area.

Using tissue paper to create the perfect poppy shape, it was a lovely opportunity for our residents to come together, be creative and make a beautiful wall of reflection for everyone to use.

We continued with the crafts and took part in a Pottery Painting Workshop with Sue Cox. 

Our residents enjoyed creating their own poppy pottery plates using a variety of colourful paints. 

I think we can all agree the finished designs were absolutely beautiful. 

Later in the week our residents enjoyed a musical memories session with our entertainer Libby.

Libby provides fantastic sessions filled with lots of singing, dancing and plenty of reminisce too. 

Our residents were delighted to come together for a Remembrance Day Church Service with Dianne from Solihull Methodist Church. 

Dianne hosted a wonderful service full of prayer and reflection.

Our residents were honoured to join in the 2 minute silence together to remember those that gave their lives for their country. 

It was a week full of great activities and our residents were thrilled to take part in. 

To commemorate Armistice Day, Fountains’ residents were delighted to welcome Armed Services Veteran Derek Tilton MBE to our home for a Remembrance Day themed talk. 

Derek discussed his experiences as an RAF pilot, from receiving his pilot’s licence as a young man, to his adventures flying over Singapore and Malaysia. It was an honour to hear his stories. 

He also shared his medals with our residents. For some it was their first opportunity to see war medals up close. All of our residents were in awe of Derek for his hard work and determination.

Derek also gave our residents the opportunity to share their own service experiences. He was keen to hear their stories, some similar and some very different. It was a hugely interesting discussion. 

A big ‘Thank You’ to Derek for making our Armistice Day events so memorable.

Today marks ‘World Kindness Day’ - a day to celebrate all of the kind acts that happen around the world.

Here at Fountains, we wanted to use this as an opportunity to share a heart warming story from one of our residents Margaret.

Margaret has been knitting for over 60 years and loves to spend time relaxing in her armchair knitting beautiful jumpers, cardigans and toys too. 

Margaret decided that she would like to use her knitting to bring joy to others.

Margaret offered to knit 20 hats for the newborn babies at George Elliot Hospital following a stay in their care.

Margaret embraced the challenge and has spent the last few weeks knitting 20 beautiful hats for the babies.

We wanted to take the opportunity to share this act of kindness with our community and hopefully inspire others to do the same. 

We would also like to say a big ‘well done’ to Margaret. It is gestures like this that make our world a happier place. 

Happy Kindness Day everyone! from all of us at Fountains Care Home. 

A very big ‘Thank you’ from all of our residents and staff here at Fountains Care Home for the amazing pumpkins entered into our competition.

We shortlisted the entries to the best 3 as judging them was so difficult. We’re delighted to announce the winning pumpkin as the Halloween creation by Home Instead Solihull 

We visited our winners to deliver their prize, which was chosen with their love of creating things together, as a team.

With that in mind they were excited to receive a ‘make your own advent calendar’ and a ‘make your own Christmas decorations’ Kit along with chocolates and a bottle of Prosecco. We’re so looking forward to seeing the finished result. 

We would also like to congratulate our runners up who will be receiving a runners up prize shortly. 

We had an entry whose contact details became wet and unreadable. if you made the fantastic light up spider pumpkin then please get in touch for your prize. 

Saqib Bhatti MP for Meriden made a guest appearance at Fountains and delighted our residents and staff.

Saqib and his assistant Ali enjoyed a selection of home-made canapés on arrival before chatting with some of our residents before a tour of our lovely home.

While touring Memory Lane, Saqib observed a sporting activity by ‘Everyone for Sport’ with residents playing basketball, which showcased an innovative and inclusive activity as part of the Varied Life Enrichment Programme at Fountains.

Thank you for visiting us at Fountains care home and we look forward to welcoming you again in the future 

Fountains’ Scrabble Club! The perfect way to enjoy some word game fun and an opportunity to socialise with friends.

Our residents love getting together in our café area for a competitive game over a cup of tea. 

Scrabble has so many benefits from increased creativity, to strategy teaching, but most importantly, giving our new residents a chance to bond and get to know one another. 

We look forward to welcoming more residents into our club!