Activities at Shawford 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.

We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.

Enriching life
Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Joanne Gadd

Activities Co-ordinator

Hello, I am Joanne. I have worked as an activities coordinator for over seven years. In that time I have built a wealth of skills, knowledge and experience in designing and implementing activities that will support the mind, body and soul. I have a passion for delivering person centred sessions and will strive to ensure our weekly programme is engaging for all. I love organising events and am continually looking for ways to connect with our local community.

Life-encriching activities booklet Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.

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 Shawford Springs Care Home

World Cocktail Day

This world cocktail day we enjoyed cocktails & music in our beautiful garden to celebrate World Cocktail Day! We’d like to say a big thank you to singer Marcus for coming to entertain us, we all had a fantastic time. Cheers!

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The VE Day Party!

Today we celebrated the 80th Anniversary of VE Day in style with a delicious buffet lunch, 1940’s singalong & special VE Day talk courtesy of resident Tony. It’s been a wonderful day filled with joy, laughter & reminiscence. We’d like to thank everyone who joined us and a very special mention and thanks to Debbie for helping us to make the dining rooms look splendid! 

Brilliant Buttons

We’d like to thank the lovely ladies of our Craft Club, who have spent the last couple of weeks creating a stunning Union Jack flag out of buttons to celebrate VE Day. We can’t wait to display it in our home and showcase the skills that the craft club have shown.  

The Big VE Day Interview

With the 80th celebration of VE Day in full swing, we were privileged that our wonderful resident and veteran Tony, was invited to meet with ITV News along side two more veterans from our sister homes.They spent time together, sharing their recollection of events and experiences from the war with reporter Dereck Johnson & Ann Churcher, the camera operator, from ITV.Here at Shawford Springs we all feel extremely honoured to have residents in our care who are willing to recount the history and stories of that time … “ A whole-hearted thank you to you all!”

Rosé Soiree

This week, we enjoyed a Rosé themed afternoon in our lounge & garden her at Shawford Springs. We had wine, pink treats & music courtesy of the fabulous singer Debi.  We’d like to thank Debi for her brilliant performance, our wonderful chef Helen for the beautiful cakes & everyone who came and enjoyed the sunny afternoon with us. 
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Trip to the tea rooms

We recently visited the beautiful Glass House Tea Room at Houghton Lodge near Stockbridge for drinks in the sunshine. This beautiful weather meant we were able to enjoy the outdoors.Thank you to the staff for making us so welcome, we look forward to a return visit in the summer to see the gardens in full bloom.