Activities at Challoner House 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. Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
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 Challoner House Care Home
Sunny Week
This weekend we had some lovely sunshine over the Challoner House Gardens, so one of our residents, Margaret, requested to go and see the flowers as it was the start of Spring.
Margaret was wrapped up snug and taken for a lovely peaceful walk around the beautiful grounds at Challoner House.
We were really pleased to see some coccus, daffodils and primroses already in bloom, along with the camelia bush already showing some lovely buds.
Gentleman's Club
This week we treated our gentleman residents to a trip to the pub. The men chose the lovely Pub, The White Swan at Mansbridge in Southampton, to enjoy a nice pint by the fire.
The White Swan is a lovely pub along the river, so we were also able to see the swans and moorhens swimming past as well as the friendly pub dog who came to join us at the table. It was a lovely afternoon listening to the men talking about the old days and how much the pubs have changed over the years.
Coffee Morning
This week Challoner House was welcomed back to the Beacon Café held at St Boniface Church, Chandlers Ford. The Beacon Café is open to the local community to get together over a hot beverage and delicious homemade cake. You also have the opportunity to attend a craft session.
It really is a wonderful way to get to know new members of our community in a relaxed environment. If you would like to come along, please see the poster with all the information about the café attached.
Challoner House tries and pops along twice a month as it is great for our residents to get out and about. The residents enjoy going along and seeing what yummy cakes they are serving, as there is always a different variety.
Armchair Ballet
This month, Challoner House welcomed Brittany Chalk in to hold an armchair Ballet session with our residents. Brittany is a fully qualified ballet instructor that offers armchair ballet sessions in care homes.
At Challoner House we have a resident who was a qualified ballet teacher as well as being a professional dancer, so we thought we would grab the opportunity for her to continue to do ballet in a relaxing way that suites our residents' mobility.
Exercise is really good for aiding everyone’s wellbeing and mobility. The residents really enjoyed this session, and we look forward to welcoming Brittany back very soon.
For the Love of Words
The residents at Challoner House love a good word game and the favourite to play is always Giant Team Scrabble. Each week the residents ask to play the competitive word-based game, and they just get better and better each week.
To play our team games, we split into two teams and play the game against each other. Scrabble is a really good game to get our minds working. We find new words each week and enjoy looking up the definitions in the dictionary.
Minibus Outing
At Challoner House, our residents love nothing more than wrapping up and getting out and about. This year we have been treated to a brand new shiny minibus so we have taken every opportunity to show it off in the community.
The residents chose some of their favourite places to visit and stop off for coffee and cake. These places include garden centres and church community coffee stops. We look forward to the warmer weather when we can start venturing further afield to the beach.
