Activities at Mount Vale 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.
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.
Louise Chapman
Hi my name is Louise I have been working at Mount Vale since 2010. I am the activities co-ordinator, I am here to promote the wellbeing of our residents and ensure they have a variety of activities to get involved in. I love finding new creative ways to engage our residents and involve our local community.
I am a dementia champion for the home and enjoy continuing to learn and find more things I can do to help promote the wellbeing of our residents.
I love spending time with each individual getting to know them so I can add individual needs into our plans. I love building strong relationships with our residents and families.
I am a crafty person and can be found doing diamond arts and lots of other creative things when I am not at work. I love spending time with my family and going for walks with my dog Dottie and cuddling my cat Loki.
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
Residents lend their ears to live performance
Residents and guests at Mount Vale enjoyed a night of grins with a live music performance that took place at home. Local Excalibur performed a selection of classic hits including Sweet Caroline, Country Roads and My Guy.
Residents joined in with the singing, and clapped along as the band performed their finale song I got you babe. The hospitality team at the home also provided a spread of sweet and savoury treats for guests to enjoy during the show.
Home receives 5* rating in Food Hygiene Inspection
Mount Vale passed a recent inspection by the Food Standards Agency with 5 Stars, the best possible rating. The Food Standards Agency visited the home unannounced on the 7/1/25 and the home, run by Barchester Healthcare, was rated 5 Stars with nothing to improve upon. The report stated Mount Vale had a very good standard of cleanliness and that all documentation was maintained.
Trudi Gillespie General Manager at Northallerton said: “We are delighted that Mount vale was rated 5 Stars following the Food Standard Agency’s most recent inspection. The team at Mount Vale work so hard to ensure the home has the very best hygiene levels so it is wonderful to have everyone’s hard work recognised.”
Residents join virtual Alpaca event
Staff and residents at Mount Vale were treated to a virtual tour of J and Alpacas, a family-run alpaca farm in Dry Doddington, Newark.
Residents joined Farm Manager, Jess, live from Newark to get an inside look into the daily care for the 134 alpacas that live on the farm and meet some of the fantastic characters that make up the herd. Residents learned how the alpaca farm was first set up in 2005 with just four alpacas but how addictive keeping alpacas is, and how the herd has grown and gone from strength to strength over the last 20 years.
Christmas Fayre brings community together
Staff, residents, relatives and the local community came together at Mount Vale Care Home in Northallerton to enjoy a wonderful annual Christmas Fayre.
There were all kinds of stalls manned by volunteers, friends and family which included a tombola, refreshments, cake stall and items made by the residents. This was a festive way to raise funds for their sensory garden with wheelchair accessible raised planters. The residents have spent weeks preparing for the big day, making Christmas cards, pens, Christmas tree decorations and also doing some baking for the cake stall.
The Pies the limit!
The Great British Bake Off might be over for another year but try telling that to staff and residents at Barchester’s Mount Vale Care Home care home, in Northallerton who have been baking up a storm.
Mount Vale Care Home’s residents and staff have been busy creating hundreds of mince pies to gift to the local community to say thanks to for all their support during 2024. Staff have delivered batches of freshly baked mince pies to the Nurses at Mowbray House Doctors Surgery in Northallerton
Christmas Jumper Day!
Last week we all donned our Christmas jumpers to raise awareness of the charity, Save The Children.
Elf Chris came along and joined us for an afternoon of festive songs too!
Residents and staff came together to sing and dance along to a wide variety of Christmas classics, including Jingle Bells and Silent Night. It was lovely and nostalgic, getting everyone into the festive spirit whilst raising money for a great cause.
Mount Vale was full of joy listening and joining in with him.
Upcoming events
Dementia Cafe - 2nd Friday of the month
We know the importance of supporting our local community and we extend an invitation to you to join us at our monthly Dementia Cafe.
Could you be a Volunteer?
Do you have any spare time and could make a difference? If you are interested in Volunteering we'd love to hear from you.
Community Cafe - Last Thursday of the month
We extend a warm invitation to you to join us at our popular community café - All welcome.
Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
Calling all emergency personnel - come and take a break with us! There may be a cake or two available .....
