Activities at Ashlar House Care Home
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Rita Green
As the Community Engagement Lead and Lifestyle Coordinator, I will be spending time with each resident and their loved ones to build a detailed picture of each individual, so that each person’s stay with us is as meaningful as possible. Although I have been working within this field for many years, thanks to the uniqueness of each resident, I am always enjoying new experiences in my role. My goal is to create an activities programme that caters to the capabilities of residents, including, but not limited to, individual and group activity.
I've spent the past few years forging strong relationships within the community and developing a pool of talented individuals that can support our in-house team to bring out the best in those we care for.
As we never stop growing and changing, it is important that we maintain an up-to-date Getting To Know Me booklet. With your help, the activities scheduled for your loved ones will be as relevant and enjoyable as possible.
I’m very much looking forward to working with all of you.
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 Ashlar House Care Home
Sixth Form Visit
Final Year's Six Formers from St Johns School, visited our home this morning, bringing endless sweets and biscuits spending quality time with our residents exchanging their career path before they all broke up from school.
The students sang in harmony with residents and also performed dedicated song requests.
Thank you for a fulfilling morning.
Christmas Cards!
Ashlar House is a huge part of the Epping community and it was such a wonderful delight that the Card Factory from Epping chose Ashlar House this Year for our residents and families, including grandchildren, to choose a Christmas card and for the ladies to write it out!
The Card Factory ladies were even ready to wrap the gifts up as they know how busy the staff are.
Thank you Card Factory, you've made a huge difference and helped us out a lot.
What is this I hear in the distance? Sounds like bells of some kind...
Turns out it was only Father Christmas paying our wonderful residents a special visit from the North Pole before he gets very busy!
Each of our residents faces lit up seeing Santa, and the surprise and happiness when he handed over their Christmas Presents was a joy to see!
Merry Christmas to each and every one of you - HO HO HO!
Now it’s Christmas party time at Ashlar House for all our fantastic staff who work so hard throughout the year and our wonderful residents.
There was a beautiful spread of food laid on with nibbles, pop corn, homemade cakes as well wine, fizzy drinks and crisps. It was a party not to be forgotten!
Everyone had a good time dancing to the Christmas music too!
Creative Mojo
Residents of Ashlar House decided to make their very own Christmas Decorations out of clay to add to the beautiful Christmas trees around their home.
As you can see by the pictures, our masterminds are at work creating a masterpiece with the help of other residents and their families.
Check in with us next week to see the final result.
Thank You to Creative Mojo!
Two Special Visits from a Beautiful School
Ivy Chimney Primary School sung carols in front of our residents as well as Coopersale Theydon Garnon Primary school in the afternoon.
Christmas cards was given out to our residents.
The children didn’t sing a tune out of place. All residents were happy smiling and singing along with the children and fun was had by all.
All the children received sweets and stickers from the residents afterwards to say a big thank you and Merry Christmas.
Performing Pets
An eight month old American miniature horse wearing an elf hat and a Swiss Valais lamb wearing a Santa’s hat visited Ashlar House today!
Our pictures paint a thousand words as to how they made our residents feel.
Thank you to Performing Pets, you are truly amazing.
Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year. See you all again in 2025.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
