Activities at Four Hills Care Home
Our activity and lifestyle programme is arranged for all our residents to participate in and is updated regularly based on ideas from our residents group during our resident forum. Our Resident of the Day strategy ensures each person receives at least one day each month where the focus is all about them.
We have a monthly concert and to date this is appreciated and enjoyed by most residents. The Four Hills Taverns is open for business every Friday afternoon and is an area where residents and staff socialise, hold pub quizzes and partake in a little refreshment.
The team at Four Hills try hard to meet everyone's needs and encourage all residents and their families to join in the fun.
Eileen Orr
Eileen joined the Four Hills Family in 1999 and has worked in various roles since. Eileen originally started as a Kitchen Assistant, then moved on to Domestic, before moving on to her current role as Activities Assistant since 2017.
Eileen loves to bring joy to residents lives from putting on meaningful and engaging activities. From in house entertainment to trips out, our Activities team always have something going on to keep our residents engaged and stimulated.
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 Four Hills Care Home
Virtual Event with Sarah Deters
We had a brilliant time with curator Sarah Deters as she took us on a virtual ‘Music Through the Ages’ tour of St Cecilia’s Hall: Concert Room and Music Museum.
Our residents were thrilled to discover weird and wonderful musical instruments, hear their unusual sounds, and find out how instruments have changed over the last 500 years.
The virtual live event explored the world-renown collection of musical instruments on display at St Cecilia’s Hall, Scotland’s oldest concert hall.
A lovely time was had by all.
Donation to local Charity, Lanarkshire Epilepsy
Four Hills were delighted to recently present Lanarkshire Epilepsy Support with a cheque for £1000 to help towards their wonderful singing workshops.
The aim of Lanarkshire Epilepsy is to provide support, to raise awareness and increase understanding of the effects of epilepsy and to establish monthly meetings with the purpose of overcoming the ignorance, fear and misunderstanding that often comes with epilepsy. Greater understanding will assist people in living a fuller life in terms of education, employment and social and recreational opportunities.
The grant had been awarded by Barchester’s Charitable Foundation, a charity that helps older people and adults with a disability or mental health problems across England, Scotland and Wales by offering grants to help people connect or re-connect with others in their local community.
It was great to welcome Janice and her colleagues Phil and Helen to the home to find out more about Lanarkshire Epilepsy, and what a great job they do at improving the lives of those living with Epilepsy.
Four Hills supports local Charity
Four Hills were delighted to recently present Nemo Arts Glasgow with a cheque for £500 to towards art activity materials for this charity that supports people in recovery from poor mental health.
Nemo Arts focus on improving mental health and wellbeing, the knowledge and understanding of mental illness in the wider community and to reduce the stigma and isolation associated with poor mental health. Nemo Arts work with adults in recovery from poor mental health. People can be referred through mental health services like the NHS or community mental health teams, psychiatric nurses, and occupational therapists.
The grant had been awarded by Barchester’s Charitable Foundation, a charity that helps older people and adults with a disability or mental health problems across England, Scotland and Wales by offering grants to help people connect or re-connect with others in their local community.
Trip out to local Fish Boat
Residents enjoyed an afternoon out for lunch to the Fish Boat.
Resident, Annie said it was fantastic to be out at the restaurant with some lovely fellow residents!
Opera Performance
Our homes had a fabulous time with the talented soprano Astrid Joos from Street Theatre. Astrid spoke about a selection of famous operas and our residents were treated to performances of wonderful arias from operas well-known to all, such as ‘Giuditta’, ‘Don Giovanni’ and ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’.
It was a lovely experience, truly enjoyed by all.
Afternoon out exploring Glasgow
Four Hills residents enjoyed an outing on the mini-bus for a tour of Glasgow.
The ladies enjoyed seeing places they used to live and visit and how the places have changed over the years, best part of the day was a pit-stop to the new local ice-cream parlour!
Upcoming events
May
May is the gateway to summer and we have lots of fun filled activities planned - all welcome.
