Activities at St Thomas 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 activities coordinator is dedicated to organising meaningful activities on an individual and group basis to fulfill the daily needs of our residents, as we understand how important mental and physical stimulation is for their wellbeing. Our activities are available to everyone who wants to take part and there is something different going on everyday. We often go out on day trips including visiting shopping centres, garden centres, evening meals at the local pubs, visits to local schools and also coffee mornings with other care homes. We have a wide range of entertainers that visit us at our home including musical therapists, Millers Ark Farm, pantomimes as well as our local salvation army and lots more. We encourage families to join us on trips out and also in home activities such as baking, arts and crafts, dancing and singing, we believe this is a great way for our residents to live an active and fun life here with us at St Thomas.
Chloe Stapley
Hello, my name is Chloe, and I’m the Activities Coordinator at St Thomas. I’ve been part of the team since 2020, starting out as a General Assistant before progressing into my current role. I’ve always had a passion for helping others, and working in care allows me to do just that every day.
I love planning engaging events and activities, and there’s nothing more rewarding than seeing the positive impact they have on our wonderful residents.
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 St Thomas Care Home
First time winner!
Joan played her first game of bingo today. Joan is a lovely lady she is kind and polite. Joan has found it very hard to join in with activities due to being blind and deaf, and would always decline joining in with activities with the rest of the home. One day Joan had come down to join us for lunch we got talking to her about joining us for bingo. Joan agreed to join us. A member of the team sat with jean and helped her play the game explaining to her what was going on and what number had been called and if she was close to winning a line or full house.
Joan won the first line of the game she was really happy with that. Then as the game carried on Joan won the full house. Joan was very happy that she had won the full house also. We told Joan what prizes there were and she picked two as she had won both games.
Joan said that she has really enjoyed herself and that she would like to play bingo when we play next time. True to her word Joan has joined us in more games of bingo and also other activities. Joan said she is very grateful that we encouraged her to come and join in with activities as she has made new friends and she is no longer sat in her room all alone.
