Activities at Mount Vale Care Home
Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from PAT dogs, entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Vale Care Home
'Tis the season to be jolly
Barchester’s Mount Vale care home, in Northallerton got in the Christmas spirit by holding their Christmas Fair for residents, their families and the local community. There was huge excitement at Mount Vale as Santa and his reindeers came by to visit the event ahead of their big night delivering presents on Christmas Eve.- General Manager, Helen Lewis said: “Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year and our fantastic residents love to get festive so we’ve pulled out all the stops. It is so lovely to see them all getting into the Christmas spirit. We had lots of families and friends from the local community visit to see the reindeers especially”
A virtual trip to Donkey Sanctuary
Across our services, Residents enjoyed a fantastic virtual tour of the Donkey Sanctuary Manchester. Residents were thrilled to meet the lovely herd of donkeys, including Henry and his best friend Tiny Tim and to learn more about their every day care. They were introduced to the sanctuary’s work and the impact they make to the lives of donkeys in need worldwide. The virtual experience was truly enjoyed by all.
Music from Matt Jones-Green
We had Matt Jones-Green come in once again. Our Residents love him and the array of music he plays. One of our carers, Opie, was enjoying the music so much he was chair dancing with residents and even got a few up dancing with him. We all had a great afternoon.
Jack, the Therapy Dog visits Mount Vale
We had ‘Jack’ come to visit us here at Mount Vale. Jack is one of many therapy dogs from ‘Therapy dogs nationwide’. Jack was a huge hit with our residents and sat very patiently while everyone game him cuddles.
Therapy dogs have been proven to improve general health and wellbeing, movement and coordination which is why we include them into our activity schedules here at Mount Vale. We also have Bambi who comes into work with Becky, our Activities Coordinator, so all of our residents are familiar with her and look forward to her visits.
Bonfire Night at Mount Vale
We had a great evening with family and friends at our annual Firework display.
We feasted on Soup, hot dogs, jacket potatoes and chocolate Bonfire cake. Once it got dark, we settled back into our comfy chairs to watch the fireworks and watched the magnificent display. Everyone agreed it was a great evening.
Sticky fingers
We are very lucky to have such great links to our local community, and Rosedene our local children’s nursery. We enjoyed a trip over to see the children and helped them bake and decorate cupcakes. The children were adorable and loved chatting and showing off how good their cupcakes were. Our Residents had great fun, even though a little sticky!
