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 Party
It wouldn’t be Christmas without a Christmas party and our party was so much fun.
We had relatives that came along to enjoy making happy memories with their loved ones, which is so lovely to see.
Residents enjoyed Christmas music playing that we all know and love and sang along to, and party games to enjoy, such as toss the ring on the reindeer antlers, balloon tennis and selfie with and elfie, we then finished off our Party with a scrummy Christmas Buffet made from our fantastic kitchen team.
Jack and the Beanstalk - Christmas Pantomime
Residents, friends and families had the opportunity to come along and watch a wonderful Pantomime performed by The Carousel Theatre Company. As you can imagine there was lots of laughter from all and it also bought back so many lovely memories for our residents. It was such a great performance and some of our residents have already been asking if they can come back and do another performance for our home next Christmas.
Ashby House Christmas Fete
This year’s Christmas Fayre was a success, we had a great turn out of visitors coming with their loved ones to enjoy the fun.
We had stalls from the community selling their goodies for last minute Christmas presents and treat bags that we had made here at Ashby House to sell.
This event is so welcomed every year, a truly fun festive experience for all to enjoy!
Art Therapy
Here at Ashby House, we love to keep our residents being creative and one of the ways we do this is through art.
Some of our recent art sessions have been creating our own firework displays for our display board and painting our own poppies for our Remembrance Day display.
Armistice Day
We had a visit today from members of the Royal British Legion, they kindly came to play the 'Last Stand' for us outside our home, we had a minutes silence also to remember the fallen soldiers.
This was a moving moment for our residents.
Residents have been helping activities with making our own display, we will also be having a virtual Remembrance Day church service on Sunday.
15 years of service celebration
Today we celebrated Mariyalojana, one of our Kitchen Assistant's reaching 15 years of Service here at Ashby House.
Our General Manager, Francesca Fosu, presented Mariyalojana with a beautiful bouquet of flowers, £250 Love2shop voucher, a Long Service pin badge along with a congratulatory letter from Pete Calveley CEO of Barchester Healthcare.
Mariyalojana is a hard working member of the kitchen team, we were all very proud to celebrate and recognize her dedication and contribution to our home.
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.
