Activities at Mount Tryon Care Home
Our home is always full of life, and we can thank our wonderful Activities Coordinators for this. Dedication to creating a unique and interesting activities programme is what sets us apart from other homes. We always take into consideration that some people would prefer to pursue their own interests, which is why our team strive to incorporative activities that cater to a wide range of tastes and hobbies. Our trips out are always fun and exciting as well, and residents are guaranteed to return with stories to tell their loved ones!
Annmarie Scourfield
Hi, My name is Annmarie and I am the Lead Activities Coordinator here at Mount Tryon Care Home. I am passionate about supporting our residents and supporting them to take part in person centered activities. It is important to me that we are encouraging our residents to do the things they enjoy and build a happy, sociable environment for them.
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 Mount Tryon Care Home
Mother’s Day
For all of our mothers, Mother's Day at Mount Tryon held great significance.
Everyone enjoyed a delicious lunch prepared to perfection by our Deputy Chef Jo, Our Residents were joined by there Sons and Daughters which made their day extra special
Jo baked a gorgeous cakes as well for our afternoon tea.
Connie 100th Birthday
Connie, one of our lovely residents at Mount Tryon, turned 100 years old.
The celebrations included four generations of family members gathering together to enjoy this momentum occasion, one daughter travelling all the way from Australia to be here today. We enjoyed a specially designed cake with her own old photos, a gorgeous personalised duvet cover, and a birthday card from the King and Queen.
Our staff at Mount Tryon participated as well, and Jo, our second chef baked Connie one of her favourite cakes.
Connie received an abundance of cards from people close and far away, including an email from an American care facility!
Happy 100th Birthday dear Connie.
Knit and Knatter
We had a really successful knit and natter activity session today at Mount Tryon. Which take place every other Tuesday Morning
Everyone enjoys a good chat, and it feels great to accomplish a goal without feeling like it took much work.
Why not join us on Easter Monday at 11 a.m. to assist our Easter bunny in finding her bunnies? We are creating Easter decorations and rewards for the search.
Local Administrator Scoops Title of Administrator of The Year Winner - South Divison
Congratulations to Tanya Kostova at Mount Tryon Care Home in Torquay, who has been crowned Administrator of the Year for the South Division in the Barchester Care Awards 2023 and is through to the national round of judging.
General Manager, Ria Willett said: “This is an amazing achievement and the whole home is supporting Tanya Kostova. We are so proud of her. Tanya has supported and driven Mount Tryon for the last twenty years. Tanya has shown nothing but hard work and dedication. Tanya is an asset to have and it is a true pleasure working with her. I cannot think of anybody that deserves this more than she does.
Mount Tryon say goodbye and best wishes to long serving member of staff
This week at Mount Tryon, we are saying Goodbye and Good Luck to Jasmin Aziz who has worked with us as a member of our housekeeping team for over 10 years.
Jasmin has worked here at Mount Tryon during holidays from school and university. Now Jasmin Aziz has graduated from University of Portsmouth with a Masters in Physics she will be moving on as Medical Physicist at our local RD&E.
Wishing you all the best from Everyone at Mount Tryon
Green Fingers at Mount Tryon
This year at Mount Tryon we decided to make use of our wonderful garden by growing some vegetables and salad items.
We have sprouts, fingers crossed they will be ready for Christmas, spring onions, radish’s and carrots along with some delightful flowers, chosen by our residents.
It’s lovely to go out a see how the garden is maturing and our residents’ are looking forward to tending to their new gardening patch’s, plants and raised beds in the coming weeks and months.
