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.
Read our brochure
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
BBC Visit
The BBC joined Hollyfields when the children from Franche Primary school, who are part of our pen-pal scheme, joined us to meet their resident pen-pal and be presented with Christmas cards and gifts. It was quite emotional to witness residents engaging so well with the children and seeing the smiles on their faces. The segment will be aired on BBC Breakfast on Boxing Day and on BBC Radio 4.
We also received emails from other schools across the country, and as far as Australia and Switzerland, asking how they could set up their own pen-pal projects.
You can watch the full segment by clicking here.
Winter Newsletter
Please click here to view the winter edition of the Hollyfields Herald.
A Man's Best Friend
PAT dog, Nellie, visits Hollyfields fortnightly to see the residents, have a good old fuss made of her and get taken for walks around the gardens. Arthur loves dogs and said he really enjoys Nellies' visits.
Sensory Evening
Residents settle down to an evening of calming sensory activity with light projections, soothing underwater sounds, fibre optic lights and mood balls – it really was difficult to stay awake at times! The themed sensory boxes with reminiscent smells and sounds and the handmade knitted twiddle muffs really make the sessions a huge success.
Letters from School
James regularly receives his letters from his pen-pal at Franche Primary School and is always full of excitement and intrigued to see what it says. The children are due to visit the home and meet their pen-pal for the first time soon and perform a lovely carol service and exchange Christmas cards
Games Afternoon
Residents and staff sit and relax by playing games such as skittles, cards, Buckaroo and Connect Four. There was hours of fun and laughter and a hint of cheating too!
