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.
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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
Community Choir Visited Fountains
We were extremely lucky and delighted to have Sing! Bentley Heath Community Choir perform at the Marketing Suite for the Solihull Association for the Blind.
Sing! are a Modern Community Choir in Solihull who perform concerts and smaller performances to raise money for chosen charities.The choir consists of approx. 120 singers so Fountains was delighted to welcome a selected cluster of this amazing choir. Everyone was thoroughly entertained J
Sing! Will be performing at The Core Theatre on Saturday 25th April at 7:30pm to celebrate a Decade of Song. Tickets available at purchase.tickets.com
Community Event at Fountains
Fountains Care home held a community event in the beautiful marketing suite on the Stratford Road (the old Shirley Aquatic Site) on Thursday 23rd January 2020.
Georgina Grace from BeautyAtHome who will be based at Fountains for a certain period during the week, kindly offered complimentary mini hand manicures to those lucky people who came along.
The treatment included a mini hand/arm massage, cut file & polish using either OPI. ORLY or CND polish.
Together Networking
Lorraine Shannon HSA Fountains Care Home enjoyed networking with “Together Networking”. The group meet monthly on the 3rd Thursday of each month at Four Ashes Golf Centre. There is a diverse group of businesses and services that come together to talk about their prospective businesses, discuss opportunities and celebrate success.
On this particular session the group were part of a presentation from Akhtar Ali (Crown Cars) to Lorraine Hart (Age UKSolihull) .Crown Cars came up with a promotion across Twitter and Facebook to encourage Crown Cars customers to download their taxi booking and payment app. For every download, Crown Cars donated £1 to Age UK Solihull throughout the month of December.
The campaign resulted in 250 downloads meaning that Age UK Solihull received £250 to help towards their service provision. How fantastic!!
Crown Cars are based in Solihull and are very much part of the local community so they wanted to choose a local charity to the area so that their donation could help local people.
For anyone interested in Together networking please contact the organiser Adam on 07599 417 343.
Colour Me Beautiful
Lorraine Shannon, HSA for Fountains Care Home hosted a “Colour me beautiful” session in the Marketing Suite.
“See that girl” Local Image Advisor Jane Perrins was able to advise the ladies that attended as to what colours best suit their skin tone and hair colour. The ladies were able to try all of the make up and left looking very different to when they arrived J
The next workshop will be held in the Marketing Suite on Friday 28th February 12noon-2:30 so if you would like to enhance your image with personally colour-matched make-up then come along.
Book a place at fountains@barchester.com for this free event or alternatively Jane will visit you in your own home. To contact Jane please email janeperrins@icloud.com
Christmas Market
Lorraine Shannon, HSA at Fountains Care Home, enjoyed the festive spirit and all the lovely food treats on offer at the Christmas market, Mell Square, Solihull. There was lots of choice of food from different parts of the globe to sample. There was a lovely buzz of activity.
There were a small selection of gift stalls, one of which was Jameana Gifts – selling affordable gifts ranging from jewellery items to ornaments. Deana the owner will be launching her website in 2020 www.jemenagifts.co.uk and wants to be the little corner shop on the website. Take a look.
Shirley Lions Santa Sleigh
Home Services Advisor, Lorraine Shannon, joined Shirley Lions Santa Sleigh to tour the streets of Shirley, giving local children an opportunity to see Santa and have photographs taken, all while raising funds for a worthwhile cause. The Sea Cadets also came out on a very cold evening to help with collections and support local children to enjoy the magic of Santa. Everyone had a lot of fun!
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.
