Threshfield CourtBarchester Healthcare

Activities at Threshfield Court Care Home

Name: Threshfield Court Care Home
Address: Station Road, Threshfield, Skipton, BD23 5ET, GB
Telephone: 01756 611 634

Here at Threshfield Court, we aim to tailor the activities to meet the needs of individual residents, the communities within the home and the home as a whole. We have regular, structured activities such as visits from Music for Health, specialist armchair exercise facilitators, local musicians and a growing team of volunteers, including our local clergy. We also have time for arts and crafts, all sorts of games, music, poetry and lots more. We are pretty good at being spontaneous too!

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

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Millie Nicholson

Activities Lead

Hi!

My name is Millie and I am the Activities Lead here at Threshfield Court, I enjoy planning all of the events and activities with the team and the residents! I have been working here at Threshfield Court since 2017 where I have had many different roles! I started as carer, where I would help out with activities taking place day to day and decided to apply for the activities assistant and then along side my admin role I have now taken on the Activities Lead role in 2026! I love my role as no two days are ever the same, I love being able to spend quality time with the residents and help enrich their lives with person centered activities from gardening to knitting or even wood work here at Threshfield we can do it all! The activities team like to make sure there is something available for everyone!

Celebrating life at Threshfield Court Care Home

Super Whippy Ice Cream!

All our residents and staff enjoyed a visit from Wahid who is from super wippy! Wahid kindly took the time out of his busy day to come and sell us some delicious ice creams! And what a good day for it, it really helped everyone to keep cool whilst getting to enjoy a sweet treat at the same time! Everyone really enjoyed their ice creams, some enjoyed sitting out front in the shade remembering and reminiscing about when they would stop at an ice cream van and buy an ice cream as kids and even for their own children! And for those residents who weren’t able to get outside our staff made sure we took the ice cream to them, so that it could be enjoyed by all! It was a lovely morning filled with lots of joy and smiles!

ITS NOT GOODBYE ITS SEE YOU LATER

From the 1st of June Stacey will start her new adventure as acting Regional Director. A very well deserved promotion.

Even though we are extremely proud of her and there is no one that deserves it more than Stacey! she will be incredibly missed by all of us here at Threshfield Court. A big thankyou to all the residents, relatives and staff that took time to join us today. It truly means a lot to have everyone’s continuous support as without it we wouldn’t be where we are today. We hope that everyone enjoyed Stacey’s little send off it was amazing to share it with some new faces and old ones too! It just showed how much of a great impact she has made.

And last but no means least a big thankyou to Stacey. Thankyou for being the best manager, mentor and leader for our home. We all hope that you are as proud of us as we are of you, You have truly built us up and have always been the biggest supporter and greatest teacher, we know you will do great things and achieve the very best.

We know it’s not goodbye, it’s see you later

OUR EASTER EGG HUNT!

What a fantastic day we have had for our Easter egg hunt! The sun was shining and the Easter bunny himself came to visit! We started off the morning by doing some crafts and decorating our own eggs! Followed by the hunt in the garden, snuggling a duckling and then ending the morning with some amazing picnic lunch!

A big thankyou to everyone that attended today, our residents enjoyed it immensely! Being around children always bring such joy and happiness! And also a big thankyou to the Easter bunny for coming to visit, and being so generous with all the chocolate and sweeties!

Activities like these provide our residents with such rich and fulfilling life enrichment opportunities!

Rock n' Roll Party with Donna Bland!

Residents, family and friends gathered as the amazing talented Donna Bland came to visit! Donna sang some well known rock n roll songs such as hound hog, can’t help falling in love and suspicious mind! Everyone definitely brought their dancing shoes and showed off their very best moves! A big thankyou to Donna for coming out and always putting on a brilliant show for everyone to enjoy.

Here at Threshfield Court our residents love live music especially songs from their own era and well known artists like Elvis Presley. Live music brings a sense of joy and reminiscence to our residents which is always so wonderful to see

HOLY COMMUNION

This Month we had the pleasure of a lovely church service from local vicar Tom Lusty. Where all residents and staff were offered holy communion.

Our residents and staff really enjoyed this service and gave thanks to Tom for sharing details of his recent sabbatical.

Trip to Parcevall Hall

Our residents enjoyed a lovely drive over to Parcevall Hall which is above Wharfdale. We enjoyed a fantastic scenic tour of the gardens and surrounding area. Followed by meeting a lovely chap called Chris who happened to be a Lute player and he took the time to play a few historic songs from Henry Vlll and then some prayers which was so very calming and added to an already beautiful atmosphere. We then enjoyed a lovely picnic made for us by our wonderful chef Patrick which we enjoyed as we looked out on to a picture perfect garden! Even our head chef Jason came up to visit us as he lives near by with his two gorgeous pups Bolly and Thistle! After that, to end such an amazing day we stopped at stump cross taverns to get some well earned ice cream to help us keep cool from the blazing sun! what a stunning day it was!

VE DAY 2026

We marked the very special occasion of VE Day with the ever so wonderful Richard and Honey! With Honey making quite the impressions with her beautiful Union Jack bandana! Richard provided us with a fantastic array of war time songs along with some golden oldies! We would like to thank Richard and Honey for coming to spend this very special and important day with us and providing us with such fantastic and heartwarming entertainment always!

We also had a special visit from David our retired head of Maintenance come and visit all dressed up with his medals which provided the residents with great stimulating conversation about war times!

The kitchen team also presented some delicious cakes and biscuits to also help us celebrate the occasion! A big thankyou to them for always providing our residents with such beautiful food and sweet treats for our residents, relatives and visitors!

Here at Threshfield Court we feel that it is extremely important to celebrate historic events like VE Day to highlight some occasions that our residents lived through and experienced throughout their lives, we wouldn’t be here today without their generations sacrifice.

OUR NEW RESIDENTS!

Here at Threshfield court we received a very special delivery!! 5 little duck eggs arrived in our home today for us to love and nurture as we watch them grow in to beautiful ducks! Pet therapy is a big part of our life enrichment here at Threshfield Court, it provides our residents with a different sense of companionship, plus how life changing can it be to be up close and personal to such a different animal!

If you want to come and see for yourself just come on in!

New Year Celebration

We enjoyed participating in a quiz all about the different countries and their own New Year resolutions! This quiz stimulated many interesting conversation about the importance of new year and what joy it brings! We listened to lovely music from the 50’s and 60’s which gave our residents a great opportunity to reminisce.

A big thankyou to all our residents, family and friends for coming to celebrate here with us it really means everything to have such a great turnout!

The home was filled with joy and love as well as excitement for what the new year will bring for us here at Threshfield Court!

BIRD BOX BUILDING!

This month it was our amazing Maintenance Team’s turn to come up with an activity for our residents and yesterday they did just that!

John, Andrew and Joel all pitched in together and put on a fabulous bird box building demonstration on where staff and residents could participate in building their own bird box from scratch. Whilst being serenaded by our lovely Joel playing the guitar and singing some songs from the golden era.

This activity benefited our residents with their fine motor skills, working together and getting stuck right in! We would like to thank John and his team for providing us with such a wholesome activity.

TROOPING OF COLOUR PARADE!

Our lovely residents had a day of leisure as we all sat back and watched the kings parade and Trooping of Colour! The residents held and waved their flags proudly as we watched the king being celebrated for such a prestigious event! It was fantastic to see the royal family and talk about the royals sparking lots of stimulating conversations!

Our amazing chef Jason put on a lovely buffet spread so that our residents could still enjoy the parade over lunch, a high thankyou to the whole hospitality team for doing such a fantastic job! From homemade sausage rolls to scones accompanied by homemade pimms or bucks fizz! It was absolutely sensational and delicious! What a fabulous way to celebrate the king and the royal family! And also a big thankyou to all the staff at Threshfield court for always working with a whole home approach and making sure everyone is involved and working so very hard at creating heart warming memories for our residents

SPIRIT OF ENDEAVOR

our residents and staff got on board a canal boat named Richard Endeavour in Skipton. And what a fantastic experience it was!

Richard’s Endeavour is runs but a local charity called Spirit of Endeavour that offers a wide range of day trips along the canal and that is accessible for all ages and mobilities! We were in the very good and safe hands of Sally and her team who looked after us all with great care, compassion and consideration for our residents!

We boarded the boat at Bradley Swing bridge and sailed all the way to Snagill and back to Kildwick before enjoying some delicious Fish and Chips from the Trawlerman! And then on the way back to Bradley we were given the opportunity to stop off at the Polish War Memorial bridge and have a ready of some fascinating local history! This has been an amazing wholesome experience for everyone involved, and we even had the chance to fulfil a residents dream of going on a canal boat which made everything so very worth it! The residents loved to be able to sit on the top deck and over look the water and just watch the world go by! Joel even brought his own karaoke machine so we had lots of music on board and lots of singing the golden oldies!

We cannot thank the team of Richard’s Endeavour enough for your hardwork and dedication! We cannot wait to come back again soon!

Gentleman's Trip to the Pub!

Here at Threshfield Court some of our Gents wanted to go out for a drive and grab a pint so we did just that! Glenn and Lexy took the chaps to Wetherspoons in Skipton! They enjoyed a delicious pint of beer or a pint of Guinness! And of course what a better way to pass the time than playing a game of dominoes!!!

Some of our residents were even recognised by locals and had a wonderful catch up and chat which was extremely touching to see! Getting the residents out and about in to the community is of huge importance in their well being and social stimulation!

Minibus trip to the Garden Centre's!

Recently our residents enjoyed a lovely trip out to Otley garden centre! This week we are celebrating Allotment week and asked our residents to go out and pick some wonderful plants and flowers to plant in our garden!

Everyone enjoyed a lovely lunch out followed by taking a lovely scenic route back home! We can’t wait to plant our flowers in the residents garden.

Minibus trips like these hold great memories for our residents as we have many keen green fingers among us!

Dementia Cafe - Pride

This month's Dementia Café we celebrated pride month in style! We enjoyed coffee and cake last baked by our amazing chef! We shared lots of smiles, laughs and giggles as we waved our flags and put on our coloured glasses!

Thankyou to our amazing friends of Threshfield that go above and beyond to attend every month for our café afternoons, we couldn’t do it without you