Activities at Melbourn Springs Care Home
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.
Denise Ashby
Hello, my name is Denise and I am the Activities Coordinator here at Melbourn Springs. I joined Barchester in 2022 and always strive to support and care for all of our residents in a way that best suits each individual.
Making sure that our residents have things to do that they really enjoy doing is something that I hold very close to my heart. It is so important to make sure that they are happy and enjoy all of the activities and events that we host for them.
A lot of our residents also enjoy our special trips out on our Mini Bus as we create new, special memories together at Melbourn Springs.
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 Melbourn Springs Care Home
Employee of the month for April - Alison
Congratulations to our employee of the month for April - our amazing Housekeeping Assistant -
Alison!
Alison is, “a very valued member of our team. Our residents and staff just love her and how good she is at what she does - there really is no one like Alison!”
Well done Alison from all of us here at Melbourn Springs.
Weekly Fitness Sessions
Keeping fit at Melbourn Springs alongside the fantastic Inclusive Sports Academy CIC.
Thank you so much for your wonderful sessions Andy and team. Some of our residents really get stuck in, the feedback has been great and we are all looking forward to our next sessions together.
Fully Vaccinated Celebrations
We have had lots to celebrate here at Melbourn Springs as we continue to have remained free of the virus since that start of the pandemic and have now become a 100% fully vaccinated home including all of our residents and staff.
And what better way to celebrate than by having our own celebratory party to mark the occasion and also to celebrate the birthday of a very special lady - our Queen.
What was even more special is that Doreen and Audrey were even interviewed by Anglia News! “That’s what you feel - you’re safe!” said Audrey.
What a truly splendid and memorable day we had #barchestertogether #DontWaitVaccinate
Grand National comes to Melbourn Springs
At Melbourn Springs we enjoyed our very own Grand National themed Afternoon Tea complete with live races and a delicious spread of Finger Sandwiches, Cheese Scones, Millionaire Shortbread and fresh Punch expertly prepared by our 2nd Chef Annie.
It really was a delightful afternoon and even our own thoroughbred made an appearance too! Needless to say everyone wanted a ride and he was very well behaved!
Sweet treats for our friends at Community Support for Dementia
Our Chefs at Melbourn Springs have been busy spreading the love to our community friends by supplying cup cakes to ‘Community Support for Dementia’, an initiative formed in 2019 by Stephanie Trayhurn and Davina Biswell to offer Awareness, Support and Training to families and their loved ones ‘living with dementia’ in Melbourn and the surrounding villages.
Pre lockdown, Community Support for Dementia were running a monthly Memory Café at the Melbourn Hub, which was replaced by weekly deliveries of activity packs and cakes during the pandemic and continues to this day! We are exploring the opportunities of working together to provide an additional Memory Café in the village each month once restrictions allow and more details will follow soon. Our home environments and activities at Melbourn Springs are tailor made to support memory retention and a Dementia lifestyle including our state of the art Magic Table in our beautiful Activity Café.
General Manager, Karen Allen adds, “Stephanie, Davina and the support group do a tremendous job and it is a real pleasure to be able to support them and their fantastic community group. Living with dementia can be quite lonely and frightening, and the more support we can provide to each other, the better – our door is always open here at Melbourn Springs if we can support or advise in any way.”
Happy Easter
We have had a truly blessed Easter here at Melbourn Springs. Our residents attended a special Church service via Zoom and also the Easter Bunny (Our Activities Coordinator Sophie) was on hand to deliver handmade cards from our community friends and yummy Easter Eggs to our residents too! Colston even has his own Easter Tree - complete with beautiful painted Eggs.
The delicious chocolate treats prepared by our amazing hospitality team have been in full flow all day - not to mention a special fun prize Bingo session which everyone enjoyed. And even though Iris won she very kindly gave Christopher her prize Easter Egg to add to his collection.
Happy Easter to each and every one of you from all of our residents and team here at Melbourn Springs!
