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
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.
Intergenerational Fun
Over the festive period, the residents at Challoner House were so pleased to welcome the local Chandlers Ford Brownies to spend the evening playing games and singing for us.
The Brownies brought with them their own version of festive bingo and gifts of Hyacinths in vases and Christmas cards for all residents at our home. It was a lovely intergenerational activity session that we wish to continue to host going forward.
Welcome Paula!
The residents at Challoner House are pleased to welcome our new home hairdresser Paula.
Paula joined us at the end of December 2024 and the residents just adore her. She comes with years of experience of working as a hairdresser in Care Homes and is always so happy and smiley when in the home.
Paula is in the home every Wednesday. She has an appointment system and really takes her time with our residents.
Panto Time
The residents, relatives and community of Challoner house are delighted to welcome Tickled Pink Productions into our home to entertain us with the pantomime of Beauty and the Beast.
The residents decided they wanted to hold the pantomime in January so they can extend the festive period and have something to look forward to following the Christmas celebrations. The Pantomime was one of the best we have hosted here at Challoner House and was a really amazing turn out.
Families have been quoted saying ‘how amazing and special the performance was and that they were pleased to be invited to share it with the lovely residents.’ Residents have requested that we book Tickled Pink in for more pantomimes in the future as they enjoyed themselves so much and have not laughed that much in a long time. It brought back so many fond memories of spending time with children and grandchildren.
