Activities at Ashby House Care Home
Activities at Ashby House
Our Activities Coordinators are constantly striving to enrich peoples lives here at Ashby House. We stimulate people both physically and mentally by organising fun filled, group and individual activities to promote the well-being of those we support.
There are regular outings in our very own minibus and visits from PAT dog therapists, church services, musicians, dancers, and local school children. We also have our very own 'Good Life' gardening club, where we grow our own produce, which we then use in our cooking club. We also host weekly bingo sessions which are proving very popular and are growing in numbers.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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 Ashby House Care Home
Christmas fete
We held a Christmas Fete for the residents and the local community, with attractions such as a Festive Photo Booth, Stalls from local businesses, and Festive games with Christmas songs playing in the background. Many of the local community and relatives of our residents came to enjoy this event and enjoyed the festive atmosphere and refreshments such as Prosecco and mince pies.
They also bought raffle tickets for our Christmas raffle and goods such as reindeer food cones, hot chocolate cones and xmas sweet selection cones and Christmas marmalade with all profits going into our Ashby House residents fund.
Vintage car display
We were very happy to have members from the Milton Keynes Classic Car Club come to Ashby House and display all there great cars for our residents to enjoy.
Our residents were thrilled to see all of the different classic cars and it took them right back to their younger years.
Church Service
We are delighted to announce we have finally resumed our monthly in house church services with St Marys Church , Woughton Parish, MK.
Our residents have really enjoyed being able to attend these services, and we are looking forward now to our Christmas service next month.
Firework Display
We held a firework display at Ashby House on 5th November for residents and the public to come and enjoy, we had freshly made Parkin cake and teas and coffees for refreshments and we had a good turn our of residents families and our local community also.
Everyone really enjoyed the display it’s was a lovely atmosphere and we plan to do it again next year.
Summer Sunshine
We made the most of the last of the September sunshine and some of our residents got out into our lovely gardens here at Ashby House.
We all know that being outside in the fresh air has many benefits, including lifting our spirits, strengthening our immune functions, as well as enhancing relationships and prompting conversations.
We enjoyed looking at the plants and the changing colours of the leaves on the trees, taking in the sound of the wildlife and then we all had tea and coffee and biscuits together.
Chinese Dining
Our monthly-themed dining experiences always go down very well, with everyone enjoying the atmosphere and the cultural cuisine, and this month it was the turn of the popular Chinese theme.
The dining areas, as usual, were decorated beautifully, with music from Chinese culture playing in the background, and a wonderful, freshly made Chinese menu made by our chefs, which consisted of vegetable spring rolls, chicken in black bean sauce, sticky Chinese BBQ pork belly served on egg fried rice and a vegetable sweet and sour chow mein.
The residents really enjoyed the evening and are already looking forward to next months.
Upcoming events
Dementia Cafe
Join us for our dementia cafe, enjoy cakes, refreshments, activities & a warm welcome. Family / carers come along too, make new friends in a safe space.
