Home care company Walfinch has launched free local activity sessions in Leicester and Loughborough.
Kishan Pala, Managing Director of Walfinch home care Leicester and Loughborough, has launched two Walfinch Thrive Clubs, offering free exercise and activity sessions to Walfinch clients and anyone from the local community.
“One is an exercise class in Birstall Parish Hall, led by a chartered physiotherapist, and will take place on the third Thursday of each month at 10am and we'll be starting the second at Anstey Jubilee Hall every 2nd Thursday of the month at 1pm, starting on July 10th, which will offer seated yoga for people with dementia, led by a qualified specialist yoga teacher,” said Kishan.
No need to book – just turn up. Both are open to clients, their families and carers, plus anyone in the community, as part of the Wellness with Walfinch initiative, which the company launched in order to improve wellness in the local communities across the country.
Kishan said: “These activity sessions will bring better mobility to our clients and local people, and offer them a chance to socialise, both of which are known to be key to increasing wellbeing.”
The classes will also give people a chance to ask Walfinch care professionals any questions they have about home care, while making it easier for them to find Walfinch's services locally, and make Walfinch's services better known.
The Thrive Club events will also benefit Walfinch's carers. “Our carers who attend the sessions with clients will get out into the community and see their client's health improve, which increases the rewards of their work,” said Kishan.
Kishan is also speaking at the Care Management Show at the NEC, Birmingham on June 27th explaining how he is making Walfinch Leicester and Loughborough a care hub for carers as well as clients.
Kishan, who became the franchisee Managing Director of Walfinch Leicester and Loughborough earlier this year, commented: “I'll be talking about recruitment and retention. I am recruiting now and I can see that ensuring wellbeing for our carers is key to taking on the right people and keeping them on board, and to delivering wellbeing to our care clients.”
