Activities at Cadbury Hall 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.
Hannah Lewis
Hi, my name is Hannah and I am the Activities Coordinator at Cadbury Hall.
I studied ‘Creative Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing’ at university and am passionate about using the arts to aid people’s social, physical, and mental wellbeing. In my spare time I love to dance, sing, and act, and help to run a local drama group for children aged 10-18.
With the support of all staff at Cadbury Hall and feedback from residents, we aim for a varied and person-centred activity schedule to help the residents lead rich and fulfilling lives. The best part of my day is seeing the residents get stuck in with the activities and looking at the smiles on their faces.
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 Cadbury Hall Care Home
Girls on tour
This month the garden centre has been the most requested place to visit, this week we had so many requests we went twice! The ladies went 1st and had a blast. Mollie’s daughter met us there which was lovely, we love when family can join us. We loved looking at the cakes in the farm shop area and the beautiful cards and books. Everyone had a lovely time and we came home with a few goodies. Margaret said that she really enjoyed herself and can’t wait for the next trip.
Blossoming friendships
Here at Cadbury we are all for establishing friendships between our residents. We have introduced Margaret to Anne and they have been inseparable ever since. Both women are widowed and are local so have lots in common, they’ve really hit it off. They both enjoy gardening so have come out to the local garden centre with us, choosing plants for the patio pots and helping to plant them when we got home. Anne has said that to find a friend whilst she’s here has really helped her feel at home and more settled.
Bring on the sunshine
We have been so excited to see the sunshine return after a really wet and gloomy start to the year. Our maintenance has cut the grass, tidied the garden and has even got the hanging baskets ready for us to plant. We started off with a trip to the local garden centre to buy some plants, we might have stopped at the café for a coffee, it would have been rude not too. Anne helped picked out the flowers for the baskets and then Norah joined her to help plant them. We had a lovely afternoon getting the garden ready for summer.
Garden centre shopping spree
We have been eager to get out into the garden all year but the weather has not allowed us to do so. Safe to say as soon as we saw a glimpse of sun we were straight in the mini bus and on our way to the local garden centre.
We had a browse and found some amazing items for our garden, it was very hard to pick out a selection of flowers when there were so many to choose from! Molly found some wonderful hanging baskets and Anne picked out some beautiful flowers.
After we had exhausted ourselves with shopping we stopped and grabbed a well deserved coffee followed by some delightful sweet treats. Now all that is left to do is plant our new additions and summer can finally begin!
Trip to the local Waitrose
We love hopping on our mini bus to go out and about in our local community, today we went to our local Waitrose to buy some Easter treats and have a coffee at the café. Peter decided he wanted to buy some magazines and chocolates for when his wife next visited and Mollie wanted to buy lots of Easter eggs for her family, we had an enjoyable time and were surprised by how busy the little town was. We were back in time for lunch and had a lovely morning, sometimes it’s the ordinary things we miss.
Visit to Crandon Springs
We decided that a visit to a sister home was in order, we travelled through Cheddar to get to Wells, admiring the scenery as we went. We had such a warm welcome from everyone at Crandon. We were especially delighted to meet Barbara who it would transpire worked at the same hospital around the same time as our Paul. The two were soon regaling in stories from the past and having a wonderful time. We cannot wait to host them in return and have already started planning for summer picnics.
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.
