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
Burn's Night
We celebrated Burns Night in style with a great performance from Ruby Darbyshire on the bagpipes.
We hosted a party in one community and Ruby then went round to visit our other communities and residents in their rooms to play special songs for them.
We then had a great Scottish feast with lots of haggis!
Beat the Blues
20th January was Blue Monday, said to be the most depressing day of the year, a day to acknowledge and address feelings of sadness and depression, particularly during the winter months.
This is a reminder to prioritise your mental health and seek support. On this day, we shared messages of positivity within the team and residents to lift each other's moods, and chatted over a brew with each other about the importance of checking in and connecting with each other.
Baby and Toddler Group
We are now hosting monthly Baby & Toddler Groups on the third Thursday of the month at 10am.
This is a great intergenerational session for our residents, who really enjoy spending time playing and singing along with the children.
Hardenhuish School
We have built a great relationship with the students at Hardenhuish school, who are visiting us weekly to spend time befriending and getting to know residents at Cepen Lodge.
The students played board games and jigsaw puzzles with some of our residents on Memory Lane today, and we even got to watch one of them play on our piano for us.
We had a lovely morning chatting and sharing experiences, and we can't wait to see them all again.
Christmas Fayre
We held our annual Christmas Fayre on the 7th December, raising funds to support our local Sea Cadets whose unit was destroyed during the recent floods.
We had a range of stall holders, music, refreshments and a special visit from Santa and his elf for the children!
We held our famous raffle and tombola, and raised a grand total of £328.30.
Residents, visitors and the team had such a fun afternoon fundraising for a special cause in our local community.
Trip to Whitehall Garden Centre
A lovely afternoon visit to Whitehall Garden Centres to see the beautiful Christmas displays with some of our residents, we had a fun-filled afternoon perusing the Christmas goodies and buying Christmas presents for our loved ones.
We are so lucky to live locally to Whitehall, and to be able to enjoy their seasonal events and displays.
