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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Residents requests ....

We regularly ask our residents where they would like to go for our weekly minibus trips, and our lovely Tessa recently said that she fancied going to the pub for a glass of wine.So, today that’s exactly what we did! We visited the beautiful Cart & Horses Pub in Winchester for a round of drinks. Tessa said that she had a brilliant time and is already busy planning another destination for our next minibus trip!

Art and about ....

Recently we went on a lovely outing to see the Romsey Art Group’s Autumn Exhibition at the Mountbatten Gallery. We all thoroughly enjoyed viewing the array of works on display by talented local artists, which included paintings & ceramic pieces.We also found it fascinating to learn about the history of the Romsey art group & the gallery itself, which is situated in the former personal church of the Mountbatten family. We’d like to say a big thank you to the members of the Romsey art group for making us feel so welcome.
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Keeping active

We know how important it is to stay active & healthy, so this week we took a special trip to a gym in Romsey to play a game of badmintonMany of our of residents have enjoyed playing racquet sports throughout their lives, so we want to ensure that they have the opportunity to continue The trip was a big success, everyone had a brilliant time & we managed to get some really good rallies going!
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All that Jazz....and cocktails!

Recently we were delighted to welcome the wonderful Sarah back to perform for us at our cocktail & jazz afternoon.The residents had a wonderful time joining in with the classic Jazz tunes and sipping their freshly mixed cocktailsOn the menu were a variety of Autumnal treats to enjoy, which included a Gin & Prosecco Fizz, Apple Cider Mimosas and a delicious Cider Punch. We’d like to say a big thank you to Sarah for coming to sing for us, we look forward to seeing her again in December.

Baking Club - Cream tea

 We’d like to say a big thank you to our resident baker David for rustling up a delicious batch of homemade fruit scones for our cream tea  last week! They smelt & tasted divine.... the only conundrum was clotted cream or jam first?
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Arty Crafty Autumn

 Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been getting creative with activities inspired by the changing seasons. We’ve painted autumn leaves, made autumnal wreaths & also created sculptures out of clay. One of our residents, Tessa loved the opportunity to pick up the paint palette again and paint a beautiful still life of Autumnal leaves