Activities at Thistle Hill Care Home

Our activities team are great at building the activities programme around the likes and interests of the people we care for. Ensuring that our social events offer fun and adventure is part of the ethos of our home; it’s important that those we support can enjoy an active and social lifestyle. Of course, there will always be those who prefer peace and quiet, and in these instances, a cup of tea and a chat are always welcomed.

Enriching life
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Life-encriching activities booklet

Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Thistle Hill Care Home

Memories of the nursery

At the Thistle Hill care centre we have created a nursery themed environment for our residents to enjoy and relax in using therapy dolls, pushchairs and Moses basket.

The environment and dolls help our residents to reminisce and brings back happy memories of early parenthood and eases any feelings of isolation and sadness.

Our residents had a lovely afternoon, chatting amongst themselves whilst cradling their therapy dolls.

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Baking fun at Thistle Hill

Like an episode of James Martin on ITV our residents got stuck into a morning of good old fashioned baking fun, creating some beautiful and tasty cheese, tomato and sesame flavoured bread rolls, whilst enjoying hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows. The rolls went down a treat over Lunchtime alongside the fresh soup provided by our talented team in the kitchen.
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Movie magic for Residents

"The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream" - Orson Welles Our residents had an afternoon of movie magic, enthralled by Disney and Pixar's latest movie "Soul" Via our projector and big screen, our residents were captivated by the colours and sounds of this wonderful movie.
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Residents enjoy coffee morning

At our weekly coffee mornings there is always a warm welcome and plenty of hearty chatter. Whilst the home is surrounded in a winter wonderland, our residents were warm and cosy with plenty of hot drinks and tasty treats.
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Keeping residents connected

Residents are overjoyed at the Thistle Hill Care Centre in Knaresborough, as Barchester Healthcare has implemented a visiting suite for residents to continue to spend time with their loved ones for the autumn and winter seasons in addition to the outdoor visiting that has been on offer for those able for many months.

Balancing resident wellbeing and safety is at the forefront of Barchester Healthcare’s thinking and they understand how important it is for residents and their family and friends to be able to spend time together in the safest way possible.

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Poems of Kindness

Our friends and students of King James School in Knaresborough sent our residents a collection of heart-warming poems and artwork.

This was warmly received by our residents who enjoyed listening to the written work of the students.

Hazel a resident at thistle hill said “I was really touched when I heard these kind poems, they were so well written and it is lovely to know that the wider community in Knaresborough is thinking of us”