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.
Kaylee White
Hi, my name is Kaylee and I joined the Hollyfields care team in February 2021. I love getting to know our residents and I'm extremely passionate about their continued wellbeing and life enrichment through tailored activities. I became part of the Activities team to develop more in this area and expand the type of fulfilling activities and events we provide.
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
Pancake Day
Our residents had a flipping good day today (excuse the pun hehe)..
From valentines crafting, drawing, storytelling and much more, shrove Tuesday was enjoyed by all.
Thank you to our chef Sarah for all your hard work in the kitchen, cooking pancakes for 30+ residents in no mean feet!
Our therapy doll has also been visiting today and really helps in relaxing our residents. You can see how much they love holding her and keeping her.
A Mini Concert from Kirsty
This afternoon we had the lovely Kirsty from Mini Concerts perform for our residents she engaged with each and everyone one in the room her voice was great and we look forward to having you back in the future. Kirsty performed a rock and roll session which got everybody tapping their toes, We have regular live singers come into the home.
A Relaxing Pamper Session
Today at Hollyfields we have had the salon open for the ladies and gents who wanted a nice fresh look. Kim has been great with the residents today listening to their requests from hair and nails, our residents enjoyed a chat with a cup of tea whilst having a relaxing hand massage with special massage oils everybody felt relaxed. We hold pamper sessions often if that is something you would like your loved ones to be involved in.
Fitness Friday
Every Friday we hold a fitness class, instructor Lucy comes to the home every 2 weeks on a Friday and holds a fitness session for one hour. Residents get to use all the muscles that are not being used as much anymore. Our residents really enjoy the sessions it brings lots of joy and happiness to their day. Lucy gets the residents warmed up with some light exercises. Just a few things Lucy likes to do to make sure the residents are fully engaged is lots of ball games which is great for the residents coordination, elastic bands and punching/kicking the soft pads which is great for mobility to strengthen up the muscles. We find at Hollyfields the fitness sessions are great for our residents family members also get to join in with their loved ones.
Christmas at Hollyfields
Christmas at Hollyfields our residents enjoyed live entertainment by a special guest singer Pippa everyone enjoyed a beautiful lunch festive celebrations all around. We took some residents outside to have a look at our Christmas lights they really liked seeing the festive decorations.
We took half of our residents to our local café for a Christmas lunch which they really enjoyed, they enjoyed pulling crackers with a glass of prosecco. We like to go to cosyJos café regular as they cater for our residents.
Crafting with Residents
Our resident John really enjoyed painting and crafting poppies for remembrance day he picked up a paint brush which he hadn’t done in years he painted the middle part of the flower and crunched up tissue paper to design the poppy.
Sheila loved our knew crocheted fiddle blankets which we had kindly been donated by crafting for communities.
