Activities at Cepen Lodge 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.
Anita Williams
Hello. my name is Anita, I have worked at Cepen Lodge for 5 years, I started as a Senior Care Assistant and now I am the Activities Coordinator which I really enjoy, I love the interaction with our residents and making their days enjoyable. I am always thinking of new activities and events, and ways to engage with our local community for our residents benefit. Cepen Lodge is a great team that I am proud to be a part of.
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 Cepen Lodge Care Home
Mother's Day!
All of our mothers here at Cepen Lodge enjoyed being queens for the day, celebrating Mothering Sunday.
We held a photo session with a balloon arch (made by members of the team) followed by a delicious slice of cake and plenty of cups of tea.
Spring Planting
In a recent activity, our residents planted pots with seasonal plants to be used in our garden, which adds a splash of colour for residents and visitors to enjoy.
Everyone loves spending time in our garden making the most of this lovely weather.
The Chippenham Community Hub Visit
Building on our community links, we have been enjoying regular visits to the Chippenham Community Hubs friendship group.
Each week we partake in their quiz, with varying degrees of success. Followed by bingo, which is always fun! It is so enjoyable to be creating links with the wider community.
St. David's Day!
The whole home celebrated St David’s Day on the 1st March. Each floor was decorated with Welsh flags and lots of dragons.
One of our Welsh residents gave us a Welsh cake baking demonstration. We finished the afternoon with a quiz-all things Welsh.
Gentleman's Club with National Trust
We were joined by National Trust at our recent gentleman's club, for a special session on camera handling!
The team visited with a range of analogue cameras dating from the 1920s to 1990s, and to chat about our experiences of photography. Lacock has strong links to the story of photography, with one of its inhabitants Henry Fox Talbot capturing the first photographic negative in the Abbey - so the team from National Trust were able to give us lots of information on the history of photography.
Everyone agreed it was a really great informative morning, and we had lots of fun taking photos on the Polaroids too!
Make a wish...
At Cepen Lodge we have a special wishing well where our residents are able to "Make a Wish".
A wish from two of our lovely residents recently was a trip to the Cinema. Of course we had to make this come true! So we hopped on the mini bus and went along to the showing of the new "Bridget Jones" film.
It was a fantastic afternoon, we enjoyed some tasty treats and plenty of belly laughs! There is nothing quite like the sweet smell of popcorn...
