Activities at Cadbury Hall Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life. 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.
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
Pumpkin Picking and Decoration
A fun morning picking Pumpkins with tea/Coffee and Cake of course.
A trip in our Mini Bus to a local pumpkin patch market
Followed by an afternoon of Pumpkin painting and entertaining our scarecrows made by the residents on the patio. As part of the local community - Scarecrow Trail during half term.
Remembrance Day
As well as marking Remembrance Day by wearing poppies and watching the televised service from The Cenotaph, residents took part in Baking Lemon and Poppy Seed Biscuits. Our Head Chef Jon whilst shopping Waitrose- Portishead for his family as a Waitrose Partner where he could find poppy Seeds. The Partner Wendy kindly donated these to Cadbury Hall on behalf of Waitrose supporting the local community and intergenerational activities.
On the 12th November Waitrose welcomed our residents and staff at the branch in Portishead with an assisted shopping experience, coffee and delicious pastries in the café and residents brought some of the Lemon and Poppy seed biscuits for the partners of Waitrose to share at tea time.
Mike a resident said: It was lovely morning and he met a friend by chance from the Choir he used to run in Bristol who was shopping in Waitrose. Re kindling a friendship over coffee & cake is always great.
Armistice Day Celebrations
We commemorated the signing of the Armistice Day agreement on the day that the guns finally fell silent. They joined the rest of the United Kingdom in holding a two-minute silence at the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day, of the eleventh month.
As well as marking Armistice Day by wearing poppies and observing the national two minute silence, residents took part in therapeutic activities making a Poppy Wreath, a talk by Resident Dr Ellis as its his fathers service and achievements in World War 1 and Military Cross amongst a selection of other medals, British pudding afternoon, a morning of Remembrance and war time music by local musician Elizabeth Glenn, The Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall and a traditional 3 course Sunday Lunch not war time rations to mark the occasion,
On the 11th November at 11am residents joint Yatton Primary School year 6 students to lay wreaths and remembrance crosses at the War Memorial Yatton in Conjunction with The Royal British Legion.
Anne Vincent a resident at Yatton Hall said: “It is very important that we keep the memories of those who fought alive and that we also think about those involved in conflicts around the world today.”
Treflor Lewis an Ex-RAF service man told us about his time in Kenya and some funny stories about times in the officer mess and antics. A truly wicked sense of humour and resilience saw him through the difficult days and nights,
Bonfire Night Celebrations
Staff and residents celebrated Bonfire Night with a bang this November 5th when they wrapped up warm to gather around the bonfire to watch a fantastic firework display and enjoy lots of seasonal treats washed down with some hot drinks. At Yatton Ruby Club in association with Yatton Primary school PTA.
Angela Grace our home service advisor volunteered to help with ticket sales and collection over 2000 people were through the gates by 6.30pm.
Wow what a night,
3000 People
700 cups of Hot Chocolate
350 Hodder’s Burgers
350 Hodder’s Sausages
250 Pick and Mix sweet bags made.
50 Litres of Milk from the Milk Stand
48 Bottles of Mulled Wine
59 Space Wands Sold
An impressive 40-minute display of fireworks.
The residents and staff also enjoyed sparkler fun on our Patio its was a magical experience for everyone,
The residents enjoyed a traditional bonfire night supper, including jacket potatoes, hot dogs, soup, toffee apples and steamed pudding beautifully prepared by the head chef Jon.
Dr Ellis a resident at Cadbury Hall, said: “I have always loved Bonfire Night, it’s so lovely to celebrate these traditions all together. The fireworks bring back so many memories of Bonfire Nights through the years, these times are so special.”
Audrene Abrigo, General Manager at Cadbury Hall, said: “We had a fantastic time at Yatton Rugby Club and the School PTA helped to make the visit very special, our residents love to keep these traditions and reminisce about years gone by. We had a great sing-a-long in the mini bus on the way home, it’s been a brilliant evening.”
Tea with the Pony
Despite the rainy weather residents enjoyed an incredible visit and Tea with local ponies
The special highlight was Betty who used to ride horses. She was in her absolute element, eagerly grooming the ponies and sharing her delightful stories from her riding day's. Her face lit up as she reminisced about her experiences, and she mentioned how much joy it had brought her.
After all the fun with the ponies we had delicious tea and cake where we also took part in an interesting quiz, who knew leaning could be so tasty!
The ponies enjoyed some apples and carrots.
The Floral Project - Growing Cut Flowers
The first phase of the Floral Project took place on Monday afternoon.
1200 seeds were planted by our residents and placed safely in our greenhouse.
Sow, grow and give cut flowers to those in the community that need a smile.
Floranthropy- Using flowers philanthropically as a celebration of beauty, love and life.
Growing Cut flowers for Cadbury Hall and the wider community in Yatton.
Our residents love this hands on project many of them have had beautiful gardens in the past.
Angela our Home Service Advisor a flower junkie is delighted to bring this project to everyone at Cadbury Hall.
