Tewkesbury FieldsBarchester Healthcare

Activities at Tewkesbury Fields 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.

Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.

Read our brochure ‘Life-enriching activities’ for more information about life in our care homes.

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Paula Lourenco

Activities Coordinator

Hello, my name is Paula and I’m the Activities coordinator at Tewkesbury Fields care home. I’ve joined Barchester healthcare in 2020.

As part of the lifestyle enrichment team, I will be organising daily activities, ensuring that residents have varied activities to choose from each day. I love enriching our residents’ lives, creating memories and be able to provide meaningful activities to each one of the residents living at Tewkesbury fields.

Celebrating life at Tewkesbury Fields Care Home

Visit from Gloucestershire Deaf Awareness

We were delighted to welcome Martha and Kate from Gloucestershire Deaf Awareness.

GDA provides practical and emotional support that enables a person to live confidently with their deafness.

One of our residents is keen to learn sign language and we are looking into hosting workshops within the home alongside raising awareness and supporting this amazing charity

Celebrating International Dog Day

At Tewksbury Fields many of us are pet and animal lovers. So we couldn't let International Dog Day pass us by!

We organized a dog photography competition and we were thrilled with the amount of participants that took the time to send in the beautiful photos of their dogs.

Our residents enjoyed looking at them and the judging became very intense! The results were close - but the overall winner was Reg who is a 16 week puppy.

Drinking Pimm's and listening to a Choir

An afternoon with Pimm's and Leadon Vale Community Choir.

Residents, families and members of the community had a wonderful afternoon listening to the choir and sipping Pimm's in our Cotswold suite.

The sun shone and we all agreed it was a perfect afternoon.

Thank you so much to the amazing Leadon Vale Choir, we always look forward to you entertaining us - even the jokes!

A stroll by the river

We enjoy weekly trips out in the minibus and as we live in such a beautiful part of Tewkesbury we don't have far to go to for a lovely stroll and ice cream.

It's always relaxing to sit by the river and watch nature at it's best.

A bit of retail therapy!

Our residents were delighted with the opening of the new Cotswold Designer Outlet in Tewkesbury.

We enjoyed the array of shops and cafes and restaurants - we obviously had to buy a few things! We feel very lucky to have such a wonderful shopping extravaganza on our doorstop and it will certainly be regular trip for the residents.

We stopped for refreshments along the way, and as always laughter and chatter ruled the afternoon.

Afternoon visit to the local airport

Residents enjoyed a fabulous afternoon at Staverton Airport.

We enjoyed watching the planes and helicopters take off and land in the glorious summer sunshine. It was also a time to reminisce about previous travels around the world that evoked wonderful memories.

Annual Teddy Bears Picnic

Our annual Teddy Bears Picnic was another roaring success.

We welcomed the Music Man who not only kept the children but also the grown ups entertained.

We were delighted to welcome the local community, residents, families grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Residents had a great time meeting the younger generation.

Celebrating Opening Of Our New Dementia Community

Celebrating Opening Of Our New Dementia Community.

Councillor Cate Cody was invited to officially open the new community, named the Cotswold Suite. Cate spent time talking with residents, staff and families.

Residents, families and staff enjoyed seeing the transformation that had been created to provide a beautiful new community overlooking stunning countryside. The home’s hospitality team provided complimentary refreshments and delicious homemade cakes throughout the day.

Barchester’s Dementia Nurse specialist, Isabel Magalhaes was available to answer any questions guests had about finding the right home and about the dementia services and support offered at Tewkesbury Fields.

Sunday Morning Classic Car Coffee Meet

Our recent Classic Car Coffee Morning was another successful event!

As always it's a pleasure to welcome members from Gloucestershire Carers Hub and this week we welcomed Stephen Moore who is always available to offer advice and support to members of the community.

Many thanks to all Classic Car owners and visitors that came to spend the morning with us all at Tewkesbury fields.

A game of Botcha with local students.

We welcomed the students from Alderman Knight School to join us for a game of Botcha, and what great fun we've had together!

Sadly, today was their last visit before they break for their school holidays.

Each visit was unique, and together we've created many memories, we built relationships and got to know each other.

We wished all the students the very best in the future!

Thanks for the lovely card and the plant for our home

Our Care Home is Number One In The District!

Today residents and staff celebrated with our Senior Regional Director Claire Brewer, as we were named number ONE Care Home in the District by the independent Internet care home reviews website, carehome.co.uk.

Carehome.co.uk is often one of the first places people will look when searching for a care home for a loved one, and is independently run to ensure that all reviews are vetted and come from people who have genuine experience of the homes that they are reviewing.

Senior Regionl Director Claire said “It is testament to the wonderful work of the fantastic staff at Tewkesbury Fields that they consistently achieve excellent reviews on independent sites such as Google and carehome.co.uk. They fully deserve to be recognized for the top quality care they deliver and I couldn’t be prouder of them. Well done to everyone ".

Thanking the NHS

On Saturday we celebrated the 77th birthday of NHS England.

Our General Manager, has been was out in the community visiting Tewkesbury Community Hospital, Bredon Surgery Mythe Medical Practice and Church Street Medical with bags of goodies to thank all NHS staff for the tireless efforts and dedication.
You are an invaluable part of everyone’s daily lives, your hard work never goes unnoticed.

From everyone here at Tewkesbury Fields, thanks to everyone who works and worked for NHS

Picnic in the Park

We always welcome a trip in the minibus and spending the afternoon at Eckington Picnic Park, an ideal spot to watch the water and world go by.

It was a moment to relax by the riverside and have a mini picnic.

Visit to the Abbey

The residents took a trip to the magnificent Tewkesbury Abbey, where they spent time admiring the historic beauty of this local landmark.

Our residents mentioned how impressed they were by the complex architecture of the Abbey and took their time to explore the site.

For some, a place that brings back many memories of celebrations.

Making Jam!

We are incredibly proud to share that we've made our "Tewkesbury Fields Strawberry Jam"

In the past month, we have been picking an astonishing amount of strawberries from our garden.

The residents have enjoyed eating them, with or without cream!

We realised that we had an abundance crop this year, so we decided to make our own Strawberry Jam! It has been incredible teamwork between residents and staff, from collecting and washing the fruit to cutting each Strawberry, to giving it to our chef to make the jam. Today we added the final touches to the jars with labels and decorations.

It has been a fantastic ongoing project, and we are all really proud!

Another great example of team work at Tewkesbury Fields.

Visit from Gloucestershire Deaf Awareness

We were delighted to welcome Martha and Kate from Gloucestershire Deaf Awareness.

GDA provides practical and emotional support that enables a person to live confidently with their deafness.

One of our residents is keen to learn sign language and we are looking into hosting workshops within the home alongside raising awareness and supporting this amazing charity