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
Live Music
One of the resident's favourite entertainers, Robert Jerome, returns with old time Jazz and Swing music. The fantastic musical afternoon, held in one of our newly refurbished lounges, left our residents and staff humming tunes all day.
Residents sang, danced and clapped along with the medley of tunes. Staff were also unable to resist themselves having fun, this is how we work at Ashlar House.
Getting The WOW Factor
Ashlar House is undergoing a full refurbishment to give it the WOW factor. From carpets, to lighting, to decoration, to landscaping and the creation of a brand new eight bed community, Ashlar House is getting the full works.
The gardens and courtyards are well underway and some of the lounges are coming along too. Although the full works, especially the new community, will take several months to complete; the refurbishment is being undertaken in phases to cause as little disruption to the residents as possible.
We look forward to inviting family, friends and supporters in for a look once the work is complete.
Performing Pets Visit
We had a fantastic visit from the amazing team at Performing Pets yesterday.
They had beautiful budgies and cuddly rabbits with them for the residents to meet. Residents loved holding the budgies and stoking the rabbits, whilst learning about them too.
Performing Pets will be visiting regularly with different animals each time - they've mentioned puppies for their next visit and possibly reindeer at Christmas. Animal therapy is an important part of life at Ashlar House along with a full activities programme.
Musical Bingo
Musical bingo is a fun-filled and fast paced take on traditional bingo! Residents are given a bingo card, where traditional bingo numbers have been replaced with song names, music titles or both.
Easter Monday
We celebrated Easter Monday in a new and engaging way: our Easter piñata was stuffed with Easter goodies and presented to our residents.
This physically and mentally engaging activity resulted in lots of smiles, as many of our residents attempted to free said goodies from the piñata, some even experimenting with sensory-focused exercises by wearing blind folds.
We may have underestimated the resilience of the humble piñata and have elected to recruit our carers to liberate its tightly guarded chocolate innards.
It was a fun a physically entertaining time for all!
Welcome Back!
On 9th January 2020, we opened our doors to Mayor of Epping to help celebrate the 100th Birthday of Gladys
It was a celebration to look back on fondly, however no one could have predicted at that time that a global pandemic was lurking around the corner that would change our lives so dramatically.
More than a year later and restrictions have lifted to the point that we can cautiously open our doors again and welcome loved ones back to visit.
6th April was the first visit for Gladys since the latest restrictions were introduced, outside of picture sharing, FaceTime and using the visiting suite. It was a truly heartfelt and emotional moment when family members filled the room with joy.
The staff at Ashlar House looked on with pride and emotion and this momentous time.
