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
Valentine's Day Preparations
You can see how much effort we put into making sure that Hollyfields was ready to celebrate the love on Valentine's Day this year.
Electronic Art
Residents enjoyed taking time out to create art masterpieces using the tablet and apps; they loved making colourful patterns and pictures using the Kaleidoscope app, which were then printed and kept in their rooms.
Michael Shaves His Head for Charity
Activities Coordinator, Michael Butler, managed to raise over £1000 for charity by shaving his head. He did this to support those living with down syndrome and also to help combat loneliness for older adults and others living with a physical or mental disability.
The Four Alpacas
On Wednesday 9th November, the presidential campaign wasn't the only thing people were talking about. Residents were visited at Hollyfields by four Alpacas. Residents and staff nicknamed the alpacas Obama, Clinton and, of course, Trump.
The alpacas visited residents in their rooms and joined others in the communal areas of the home.
Residents were transfixed by the animals and loved stroking them.
Preparing for World Food Day
Hollyfields is preparing for World Food Day by collecting non-persihable food items from the general public and delivering them to local food banks in our area to help increase supplies for those in need.
Celebrating National Poetry Day - A Poem About Home
Residents gathered in the communal areas of the home on National Poetry Day and were asked to think of a subject for a poem that we could write as a collective group. The theme that was then decided upon was 'home'. With this in mind, we asked all residents what home meant to them and to share their stories and thoughts with the group as part of a reminiscence activity. Ideas and suggestions were given and these were a few of them:
1) Heaven
2) Friends
3) Place of happiness
4) Memories of young children
5) Love & loss
6) Family
7) A place to reflect
8) Singing
9) Other people around them
10) Quiet and busy times
11) Fun times
12) Activities such as baking
13) Bing Crosby at Christmas
14) Cake & tea
So, with this in mind, we sat and discussed how people felt during these times, and together, we wrote this beautiful poem. Please click here to read it.
This was a great opportunity to share our thoughts and learn about residents' lives; a great activity to mark National Poetry Day.
With special thanks to: Catherine, Hazel, Isobel, James, Mercier, John, Colin, Margaret, Grace, Danny, Lionel & Pat - AKA Hollyfield's residents.
