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.
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 Ashlar House Care Home
Jubilee Street Party
Ashlar House celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in style with a whole host of fun-filled activities, live music entertainment and lots of fizz. In recognition of the special occasion the Ashlar House team organised a royal street party; welcomed family, friends and members of our local community who enjoyed a variety of delicious cakes and tea, a BBQ and an ice-cream van.
Ahead of the celebration, our residents and team worked hard to decorate the home with themed flags; colourful banners, flower displays fit for the longest reigning monarch and not forgetting our royal mascots. To make things even more exciting we have the chance to showcase our stylish royal decors and enter the #BarchesterJubilee competition to compete against Barchester homes up and down the country.
Jubilee Entertainment
Today we welcomed back one of our regular singers, the wonderful Carly Ann to Ashlar House to start off our Jubilee celebrations weekend.
Residents, families and staff were dancing and singing, enjoying wartime classics and songs from throughout the Queen's 70 year reign.
Carly Ann was dressed in her wartime attire to mark the occasion. It was an afternoon of pure delight.
International Nurses Day
Today we celebrated the anniversary of the birth of nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale, also known as International Nurses Day, by acknowledging our dedicated and hard-working nurses.
To mark the occasion and to say thank you, our talented chef prepared delicious treats and refreshments for everyone to enjoy.
We received numerous cards and recorded thank you messages from relatives, friends and the local community, which were displayed around the home and shared with the team to make the day extra special.
Every staff member at our home is going above and beyond. A big thank you to all our nurses.
Silent Disco
Silent Disco using sound cancelling headphones!
We all know by now the power of music and how important it is to reminiscence. Here at Ashlar House we tried something new introducing “silent discos” to individual music taste.
Music has the ability to bring us joy, comfort, motivation and to help us relax everywhere and anywhere in the home. It may quantum leap some back in time, calm our worried minds or even boost our moods and allow us to dance away in silence.
Chocolate Heaven
Today at Ashlar house we are enjoying the bouquet of freshly made cupcakes and other delightful treats as the Easter Hampers come rolling in from families and the wider community. We have also received a lovely gift of chocolates and hand creams. If that wasn’t enough of a treat we also welcomed Chris Hunt to our home today who serenaded us with POP hits and Classic Jazz Guitar masterpieces.
Music From Robert Jerome
Today's performance at Ashlar House featured a lovely selection of Jukebox classics with hot cross buns, tea and coffee. It was a full house with resident's families invited to attend this special show which encouraged us to get in to the Easter spirit. It was lovely to see many of the residents engage in this activity with their families, seeing smiles on faces making many happy memories together.
