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

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Brilliant Bakers

Yesterday Elisa, David & Paris got together for our Baking Club & made a mouth-watering batch of fruit muffins for everyone to enjoy!

They very carefully followed the recipe and we can assure you the muffins did not disappoint.

Our residents really enjoy baking club as it allows them to use skills that they don't want to loose. It also brings up happy memories of them baking with their children, partners and other friend and family.

World Wildlife Day

This week, we were very fortunate to get to listen to a fascinating talk about the Wildlife of Africa thanks to our resident wildlife expert Richard. From Lions to Meerkats, Richard took us on an amazing journey through the African Savanna, drawing upon his knowledge gained from 17 trips to Africa & his time spent volunteering at Marwell Zoo. We’d like to thank Richard for taking the time to speak for us & we very much look forward to hearing his future animal themed talks!

Gardening Club!

We’d like to say a big thank you to our fantastic resident gardeners here at Shawford Sprinsg, David & Jeanette, who spent the morning planting a selection of colourful Primroses & Polyanthus to brighten up our raised beds & balcony.  We love this time of year when we can get outside, feel some sun and enjoy the flowers.

A Double Centenarian Celebration

Here at Shawford Springs, we have been celebrating not one, but two 100th Birthday's this month! The thing that makes this so much more special, is that the people who's birthday's it is, are husband and wife of 75 years. Bruce and Lena met in Portsmouth during the war. They married and had 2 children. Later, their family grew and they now also have 5 Grand children and 6 great grandchildren. Bruce was an Architect and Lena a seamstress. Today they enjoyed a beautiful 3 course meal prepared by our chef that they ate together in our private dining room. It brings us so much pleasure to be part of such a special occasion. Being able to create these wonderful moments for our residents is a real honour and we look forward to continuing the celebrations!

Friday Art Club

On Friday afternoons we get our creative juices flowing in our weekly art club. Each session has a different theme, which to date has included landscapes, animals & flowers. We are very lucky to have some incredibly talented artists in our home and we love seeing all the wonderful paintings & sketches they create each week.Our club is open to all so if you would like to come along, please give us a call.
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Sensational Snowdrops

We were recently treated to a very special garden visit courtesy of our wonderful Head Chef, Jon. Jon is an avid gardener & has a passion for plants, so he arranged for us to visit a garden near Salisbury which is renowned for its collection of rare snowdrops. What a treat it was for us to be able to see the beautiful snowdrops in full bloom, and we were all surprised to learn that there are over 500 different named varieties! We were also incredibly lucky to have a beautiful sunny day, so we could sit and enjoy a coffee & slice of cake in the sunshine whilst we were there too. We’d like to say a very big thank you to Jon for not only sharing one of his passions with us, but for also organising the outing & accompanying us on his day off. We all had a fantastic time.