Activities at Cepen Lodge Care Home

We're so happy to announce that Steve Warman has been crowned Health & Safety Champion for the Central Division in the Barchester Care Awards 2023 and is through to the national round of judging.

The Barchester Care Awards celebrate the staff who go the extra mile for the benefit of the 13,000 residents living in Barchester’s 252 care homes and private hospitals across the country. Categories range from ‘Registered Nurse of the Year’ and ‘Carer of the Year’ to ‘Dementia Care Champion’ and ‘Activities Coordinator of the Year’.

Cepen Lodge residents went along to the St Paul’s Church for their coffee afternoon.  We are still sporting our medals from the Senior Games, and enjoyed showing them off!

We had a lovely afternoon meeting everyone, and we're looking forward to coming back again soon!

What an amazing day today for Cepen Lodge residents as they took part in the Wiltshire inaugural Senior Games.  This was the culmination of the 12 week "Love to Move" programme which the residents have so enjoyed and the activities team will continue to follow. The programme was in partnership with WASP (Wiltshire & Swindon Sport) and Public Health Wiltshire arranged the event. This was an opportunity for the care homes who have taken part to compete for the Wiltshire Senior Games trophy.

The Senior Games were held at Abbeyfield School in Chippenham and we must thank the fabulous students who ran each event, setting up and scoring. They really entered into the spirit of the day chatting to residents.  The day was introduced by Councillor Ian Blair-Pilling followed by a warm up by Jane who has been visiting the homes weekly to run the classes. The residents all knew the routines to classics like The Lambeth Walk. The main event saw residents competing in a range of activities, congratulations to Mona, Brian, Wendy, John, May, Margaret, Jean, Tony, Keith and Stan for taking part and a special mention to Joy, Stan's wife of 67 years who joined in as well. It was Stan who topped the Cepen Lodge team by winning the Javelin. We didn't win the trophy but the residents really did give it their all. Cepen Lodge also featured on BBC Radio Wiltshire on the morning of the event. 

The Cepen Lodge gardening club always have plenty to do we have been planting the seeds we've grown - onions, radish, beetroots and carrots!  We can't wait to start harvesting them for our lunch. Our head of maintenance Steve joined us today, who has done such a brilliant job with our garden, and built our wonderful raised planter for us. 

Cepen Lodge residents enjoyed another Love to Move session today, this has been such a brilliant and enjoyable programme run by Wiltshire and Swindon Sport in association with British Gymnastics Foundation and we are all ready for the Senior Games on Tuesday 27th June.  Cepen Lodge are taking a team of residents and would love lots of supporters so here are the details:

1.30pm Care homes arrive

1.45pm Welcome / Love To Move warm up

2pm Rotate around each of the 4 activities (foam javelin, tin can alley, target throw, golf putting) with 2 or 3 goes each depending on numbers

3.15pm Refreshments (water and biscuits/cake provided)

3.30pm Presentations

3.45pm Depart

It is being held at Abbeyfields School, Stanley Lane, Chippenham, SN15 3XB

A healthy lifestyle is so important for our residents and this programme has supported our work to keep residents active.

We thanked our absolutely fantastic care team at Cepen Lodge this week, to mark carers’ week by presenting them with chocolates and sweets as a gesture to show our appreciation. The team go above and beyond for our residents every day and we also set up an appreciation board up in our reception; thank you everyone for your lovely messages.