Activities at The Cedars 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 the cornerstone of a wholesome home experience, and our Activities Coordinators are always putting their creative minds to the test by organising new and exciting social events for residents to partake in. Of course, we take into account the likes and dislikes of those we support, so if someone doesn’t feel like trying something new, there will always be something on offer to reflect their personal interests. For the people who may just prefer some peace and quiet instead, we also offer one-to-one time that can be enjoyed with a nice cup of coffee or just a simple chat – whatever they desire.
Lorraine Mounter
Hello. My name is Lorraine and I love working with the residents at Cedars. I started as a carer and then joined the activities team. I love crafting and so this job is ideal as I can look after the residents, whilst we have fun, laughter and create new things together. I find it very rewarding to see the residents happy, smiling and enjoying their day.
In my spare time I enjoy reading, gardening and crafting. I also have a horse and I look after my granddaughter.
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 The Cedars Care Home
Salisbury Cathedral Flower Festival
Last week, two groups of our residents went on a trip to Salisbury Cathedral to see their flower festival, The Spirit of Water.
The sun was shining, and the flowers were arranged in beautiful display. It was absolutely stunning!
Music with Dave Dawson
Music is always popular at Cedars, be it having our own sing a long or welcoming our favourite singers into the home.
This afternoon the wonderful Dave Dawson came to entertain us! In between singing and dancing, we also had a duet from Dave and one of our residents Alan! Thank you for a wonderful performance.
VE Day Celebrations at Cedars Salisbury
Our residents and staff celebrated VE Day with an afternoon tea party. The residents had a wonderful time singing and dancing with Eve N Song, followed by a delicious afternoon tea made by the chef.
Landford Dementia Music Club also visited to join in the fun and everyone sang along to “We’ll meet again”, “The White Cliffs of Dover” and many more wartime favourites. Resident, Sylvia Thomas, remarked on what a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon she had had.
Head Chef, Glyn Colderwood, gave a talk about his life in the military to add a flavour of what the troops experienced.
Outing to Salisbury Driving Range
A few of our residents are keen golfers so our pink ladies, Lorraine and Carol, planned a trip to Salisbury Driving Range.
It was such an enjoyable day for our residents and brought back many happy memories.
Gardening!
Our residents enjoyed a fun afternoon planting seeds for national gardening day.
There was lots of laughter and mess! We are eagerly awaiting to see the fruits of our labour.
Pamper Day
We are extremely fortunate to have a hairdresser and a nail technician visit regularly to see our residents. This week, Amy has been giving our ladies' nails a pamper!
Amy is a qualified nail technician and has started coming to us on a monthly basis; a service that is proving popular at the Cedars. Our residents truly enjoy their pamper sessions with Amy.
Every week, Becky visits to Colour, cut, wash, perm and set our residents’ hair. Everyone leaves the salon in high spirits and looking beautiful.
