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
Friends Together for Fireworks
Our residents and staff thoroughly enjoyed our trip tonight to Hagley Place Care Home in Ludlow. The homes activity coordinators put on a wonderful firework display and we enjoyed some tasty food too!
Thank you to Mandy for inviting us all to join you at your beautiful home, Mary’s smile did not falter and Martin talked about building bonfires in his younger years. All of our residents agreed it was a wonderful display.
King's Birthday Card Crafting
Our residents and staff had a wonderful today Bells Farm Shop cafe, the lovely ladies Mandy, Jo and Pat. We had such a warm and welcoming reception and our residents loved chatting about their past and the things they enjoyed doing. And of course, there was cake! There has to be!
We made skilfully crafted cards, with direction from the professionals that we are sending off to Buckingham Palace for the Kings upcoming birthday. We do hope he enjoys recieving them, as much as we enjoyed making them.
All of our residents expressed their thanks and joy for a lovely afternoon out, we look forward to welcoming Mandy, Jo and Pat to Hollyfields to guide us through our Christmas card making. Keep your eyes peeled for dates if you would like to join in.
Happy Heads of Hair Thursday!
This week we welcomed Emma Church Lane Salonto the Hollyfields & Ivy House family as our official Hairdresser. Emma spent most of Thursday in the Hollyfields salon; washing, setting, blow-drying, cutting and applying a bouffant to many of our lovey ladies hair.
Everyone left with that wonderful VIP feeling for the weekend ahead. Keep an eye out for the poster confirming when she'll be back and get booked in...Her availabilities slots will full up fast!
Linda Casts a Singing Spell
We had a delightful Halloween-themed morning activity with Linda, who entertained our residents with a selection of classic spook-inspired songs. Her performance encouraged the residents to actively participate by singing and dancing along.
We would like to express our gratitude to the families who joined us for this enjoyable event. It was a wonderful opportunity for everyone to come together and get into the swinging 'spirit' of this season.
Pumpkin Carving
We had a delightful afternoon of pumpkin carving at Ivy House.
Gemma successfully engaged the residents in a nostalgic activity that brought back fond memories of their childhood.
A big thank you to Simon at Co-operative Food Franche Road for donating the pumpkins to our home for our lovely residents to enjoy.
Pudding Club - All Welcome
Join us next month when our esteemed Head Chef Sarah, wil once again prepare a delightful assortment of cakes and puddings for our residents and guests to try. Come and enjoy your choice of sweet treats and engage in a pleasant conversation with our residents. This month, Margaret and Brian, decided the classic Victoria sponge was the most well-received dessert.
Resident; Julia expressed her appreciation for the distinct flavour of the tea when served in our exquisite china tea sets, citing it as one of the reasons she cherishes attending the Pudding Club.
Kindly be on the lookout for our posters advertising our next pudding club event in November. For this special occasion, we will be hosting an Afternoon Tea, and would love to welcome even more friends and family to join us.
Did you know our pudding club is open to all local seniors in the community, please call the activities team on T. 01562 514810 to find out more.
