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.
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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 Ashby House Care Home
Christmas Jumper Day
A festive day here at Ashby House where the residents wore their amazing Christmas Jumpers whilst sampling the yummy Christmas jumper biscuits that the fantastic Activity Team made for this special event. The residents loved wearing their Christmas jumpers and were really excited for the big day arriving.
Festive visit from petite ponies
We had a special visit from ‘Jonnie’ a Petite Shetland Pony this month at Ashby House.
The residents and staff were delighted to have the chance to say hello to this Petite Pony and give him a brush.
This kind Pet Therapy event is important for our residents wellbeing and this really came across when some of our residents responded to seeing Jonnie with tears of joy and happiness.
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.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas!
The Countdown to Christmas is on! We have a packed month throughout December and invite you to join us for any of our activities and events. Merry Chrsitmas everyone.
