Activities at Fountains Care Home

Fountains care home in Solihull commemorated Remembrance Day on Sunday 12 November.  They joined the rest of the United Kingdom in holding a two-minute silence at 11am.  

As well as marking Remembrance Day by wearing poppies and watching the televised service from The Cenotaph, residents took part in therapeutic activities creating poppies, visiting RAF Cosford museum and having and remembrance afternoon tea.

What a successful morning we have had here at fountains care home. This morning our residents, had the chance to get creative using a wide variety of different textured fabrics and materials to create their own autumn wreaths. Our residents, became very engaged when getting busy, digging their way into all of the autumn items/ objects in which they could use. This lead to some fantastic topics of conversations, and plenty of opportunities for all to reminisce about life in autumn.

We have reached out into our community, and made a nice connection with Our lady or the wayside church. We have a resident, Martin, who belongs to the church, sings in their choir and attends regular services. This year, we have been collecting foods for the harvest festival which shall be taking place at the church. Martin has been around to different collection points. Our staff team have been very supportive and the local Tesco’s branch. Gillian the Tesco’s community engagement officer, received our email regarding Martin’s request to help the church help others within the community, they kindly made a donation in which Martin went to collect. Martin and his family have now taken these donations up to our lady of the wayside church.

Out and about again in our mini bus, due to popular demands, we made return retail trip Marks and Spencer’s. Here our residents were joined by a family member, and were able to explore the new store at the sears retail park, they had the opportunity to shop until we drop. Our resident’s, were very much intrigued by the new café and how it was now cashless, this bought on good conversations regarding the changes being made in the future. 

Do you know the muffin man…Well We most certainly do. Here we have our residents from Memory lane, having a fun filled afternoon, being engaged with baking. They enjoyed being able to explore the ingredients, this included sharing their own stories on how and what they used to bake at home. Lots of laughter could be heard, great skills demonstrated whilst taking part in this activity. We can say the end result was tasted and defiantly a success.

Residents at the Fountains care home in Solihull have had tails wagging when staff and residents welcomed a whole host of four-legged friends and their owners from the local area for a celebration of all things canine to raise funds for Birmingham Dogs Trust.

Birmingham Dogs Home cares 24 hours a day, every day of the year for stray, abandoned and relinquished dogs from across the West Midlands and South Staffordshire, and is one of the region’s oldest and best loved animal welfare charities.