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.
Joanne Gadd
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.
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
St Swithins School choir Easter visit
We’d like to say a big thank you to the children of St Swithun Wells Catholic Primary School for visiting us last week to sing a selection of Easter songs & for making us all some lovely Easter cards! Their visit put a smile on everyone’s faces
Out and About - Brambridge Garden centre
This week we enjoyed a trip to Brambridge Park Garden Centre for drinks in their lovely cafe.
The garden centre has also very kindly donated a gift voucher for our Easter raffle, so a big thank you to the staff for their generosity & for supporting our home.
Out and about - The Royal Logistics Museum
This week we took another trip to The Royal Logistic Corps Museum in Worthy Down.
This was a special trip for Tony, who has visited many of Winchester’s military museums, but had never had the opportunity to visit the Royal Logistic Corp’s museum before. He thoroughly enjoyed the trip & was especially impressed by the medal room, which has a vast array of medals on display.
After having a look around the exhibits we all enjoyed a round of drinks in the on site café. Thank you to all the staff at the museum for welcoming us
Classic Car Show - Allsorts Motorclub - Alsford
What a beautiful sunny day it was for our classic Car show courtesy of All sorts Motor Club inc. who joined us on Saturday morning with 11 of their club members and their classic vehicles
The residents and their friends and families loved reminiscing with the club members and hearing about the stories of how they came to own their classic vehicles
There was a wonderful and diverse collection, the oldest car was nearly 100 years old and the most modern was a Subaru Rally Car.
Vernon was very lucky as he managed to sit in the drivers seats of most of the cars and also take a look under their bonnets
The WI Kitchen Dancers - Easter Crafting
This week we were thrilled to be joined by the lovely ladies of our local Kitchen Dancers W.I group who ran an Easter themed craft session in the lounge. The morning was full of fun & laughter & we ended up with a selection of beautiful paper Easter eggs to decorate our reception area with.
We’d like to thank them all for giving up their time to join us, we had a lovely time
Reminiscing with The Memory Box Foundation
We’d like to say thank you to Lauren from The Memory Box Foundation another lovely reminiscence session in our activity room yesterday morning.
We thoroughly enjoyed chatting about our favourite places in the U.K & sharing memories of holidays & trips taken
