Activities at Hollyfields Care Home
Our Activities programme is formulated using resident requests and feedback from resident meetings. Residents are involved in planning the programme with things they they would like to do throughout the year. There is a mixture of activities that take place including both group and 1-1 engagement. Residents at Hollyfields particularly enjoy movement to music activities enabling them to increase their level of physical abilities and have fun at the same time, whilst others enjoy musical singalongs and food based activities throughout the week.
We have a mini bus that enables us to reconnect our residents with their community in ways that suite themselves as individuals. This can be achieved by visiting local farms, Georgian towns, local attractions and even the local public house for lunch with friends. Hollyfields have a great relationship with their local community and have visits from local organisations such as The Wyre Community Land Trust and are currently undertaking a 12 week funded project from Arts Etc. Residents at Hollyfields enjoy Pet Therapy visits from their pet rabbit 'Thumper' and like to help clean and feed him daily. Relatives can be encouraged to join us for activities and again are very supportive with delivering theme days and fundraising events within the home.
Kayleigh White
Kayleigh joined the Hollyfields care team in February 2021. She's a a very conscientious young lady, who is passionate about the wellbeing of all our residents.
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 Hollyfields Care Home
Chocolate Bouquets
During the pandemic, the support from our local community has been fantastic, and we've had support from all over. We wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us, so we delivered handmade chocolate bouquets to everyone who helped us. There are so many of you to thank and we hope to continue our friendships into and throughout 2021.
Halloween Preparations
At Hollyfields, residents have been enjoying arts and craft sessions for Halloween, carving pumpkins that were donated by our local Morrisons Ssuperstore in Kidderminster. The store was happy to help with donations to assist with delivering both art and reminiscence activities to aid activity provision.
Pen Pals
Residents at Hollyfields and Ivy House received letters from their pen pals at Franche Community Primary School, which were welcomed by all.
Residents really enjoyed have their letters read and listening to what the children had been up to during lockdown.
Harvest Festival
Hollyfields residents and staff have been working to create their Harvest Festival display for 2020.
Residents and staff joined forces to create some lovely leaf painting prints, which are up on the wall next tour display.
Residents really enjoyed getting messy with the paint and loved mixing all of the autumnal colours. Residents made salt baked dough decorations too, including a wreath, a pumpkin, grapes and knots.
Our local mid-counties Co-op donated £20 worth of food to help us with our display, and donations for our local food bank continue to pour in.
As the week goes on, we shall be continuing our theme of harvest with walks in nearby fields looking at the varieties of crops that are growing, as well as a virtual Harvest Festival service on Friday afternoon.
Juicing Day
Staff and residents enjoyed a day of all things apples recently. The trees from our orchard were harvested by staff and residents throughout the week, which was a big job for everyone, as this year saw our trees blossom a fantastic crop.
Usually, a team of volunteers from Wyre Community Land Trust would support us with the day, but due to current restrictions, were unable to join us, however, that didn’t stop us from loaning their equipment and doing it ourselves.
The whole team got involved to make the day a huge success. Maintenance and garden teams helped residents to pick the apples, chefs and kitchen assistants made homemade chutneys and sauces, the housekeeping team assisted residents to bottle the juice and care assistants helped to jar up the chutneys.
A big thank you to everyone at Hollyfields for such a great day!
Sports Day
The rain and wind did not deter the staff and residents from participating in their annual sports day. Residents and staff joined forces to fight for the winning title of champions of champions at this year’s sports day.
Events included the sack race, three-legged race and the egg and spoon race. One resident in particular found a varied approach to keep his egg on the spoon.
The day was enjoyed by all and the fight for the title continues for a very special Christmas sports day this winter.
