Activities at Melbourn Springs Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life. Ensuring that our social events offer fun and adventure is a major focus of the ethos of our home; it’s important that those we support can enjoy an active and social lifestyle. Of course, there will always be those who prefer peace and quiet, and in these instances, a cup of tea and a chat will always be welcomed.
Anne Gardiner
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 Melbourn Springs Care Home
Puppy Love
Sunday was National Puppy Day and unbeknown to our residents, there was a very special (and very cute) visitor waiting to meet them.
The son of our lovely resident, Marlene, is the proud owner of 10-week old Loki, and he very kindly agreed to bring Loki to Melbourn Springs much to the delight of everybody at the home.
There were cuddles aplenty and Loki was treated like royalty. He was brilliantly behaved and loved the extra attention that he was getting.
We very much look forward to seeing Loki again and can't wait to see how much he has grown!!
The Virtual Reality experience comes to Melbourn Springs
We have been enjoying the latest Virtual Reality experience at Melbourn Springs, courtesy of Virtucatver (UK) and their team who came to Melbourn Springs.
We were joined by residents from Iris Court in Hitchin and Margaret House in Barley and every single resident that took part were amazed by what they were seeing.
The smiles on the faces of the residents at the end of the experience was amazing and to top off a fabulous afternoon, everybody was provided with a lovely cup of tea and a slice of freshly baked cake.
A great day for everybody involved.
Virtual Choir
This was part of the Barchester Virtual 'Come Sing! To Feel Good - Spring Sing-a-long' events and was rolled out across every home within Barchester Healthcare.
Weekend Fun and Games
There was a lot of laughter going on amongst the friendly competitiveness and at the end of everything, we finished with a well-earned cup of tea along with freshly baked cakes.
Coffee morning with friends
Frank the all-round entertainer
Yesterday we had a very special afternoon when we were visited for the first time in a long time by the uniquely talented Frank and his 'hose-pipe' trumpet.........he also brought his traditional trumpet and keyboard with him and treated the residents to his full rendition of all-time classics which he both sang and played the music to.
A genuine one-man band and the residents absolutely loved having him at Melbourn Springs which was apparent by the singing and foot-tapping that took place throughout.
Thank you Frank, it was a pleasure to have you with us!!
