Activities at Cadbury Hall Care Home

Our activity co-ordinator Paula managed to surprise all of our residents and staff with a visit from some very cute four legged friends. A very special lady let us borrow her kittens for the afternoon for lots of cuddles and laughter as they played around the home. June was absolutely delighted to experience a cuddle with one of the kittens who obviously felt the same as it fell asleep on her.

Ruth was besotted and is working on the general manager to acquire a cat for the home. Watch this space to see if she’s successful.

We have fortnightly creative mojo sessions with Mel, which we thoroughly enjoy, this time we created a commemorative piece for the 80th anniversary of the D Day landings. We painted all of the pieces and then Mel sticks them all together, we are always amazed by the finished piece. Dorothy, who doesn’t believe that she's creative at all, has really enjoyed coming along to theses sessions and socialising with fellow residents and as it turns out is actually quite creative.

We like to keep in touch with the local community here at Cadbury and were delighted with a visit from the local PSCO’s. They came into the home to give a talk to the residents about internet safety and to tell them all about the recent scams that have been occurring. They were wonderful at reassuring everyone and gave out alarms and jingle bells for residents handbags and purses. They enjoyed chatting with the residents and sampling the brownies from the kitchen. We will welcome them back soon.

Every Friday we have knit and natter in the home, we like the local community to come in and spend time with our residents getting to know them and the staff . Felicia is one of our carers and always supports residents with their hobbies and helps teach them new skills, we are going to introduce a crochet teaching class  with Felicia as a few of our ladies want to learn how to crochet. Hopefully in the not too distant future we can show everyone what we have learnt.

We love having our own mini bus on site, it means we can go whenever we want to and when the weathers been this good this week, we are out out. We went to Cheddar Gorge for the morning, we enjoyed seeing the waterfalls, cliffs and even the goats. We stopped at the café for some light refreshments before driving through the Gorge to see Jacobs ladder and the caves.

At Cadbury we really like to nurture friendships made within the home. These 2 lovely gentleman met whilst staying with us on respite last year, they immediately hit it off and have been firm friends ever since, they even visit each other when they aren’t staying with us. They both have a keen interest in aviation so we thought it would be a nice little treat to surprise them with a trip to the helicopter museum. Both were completely unaware that everything had been organised and were so pleased to be able to spend the morning with each other doing something they both enjoyed. Here at Cadbury we aim to make your stay as special as we can and even include you when you aren’t staying  with us.