Activities at Challoner House Care Home
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.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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
Scrabble Time
Residents at Challoner House really enjoy a good game of Scrabble. We are lucky to have a giant Scrabble board that we can play team games and individual games on. As you can see, the game can get quite competitive, with really good words being played.
Blenheim Palace Virtual Talk
The residents at Challoner House really enjoyed the live talk from Blenheim Palace on evacuees and espionage during World War 2.
Before the talk, the residents shared stories of their lives during the war and we had a quiz related to the talk. We also found stories on the internet written by evacuees, which everyone took turns to read aloud. Residents said it was a fabulous talk, bringing back lots of memories.
A History of Musicals
Residents were able to enjoy our first entertainer back into the home since the Covid restrictions. We had the lovely Roger from The Creative Talks company, who gave us a fantastic interactive talk on the history of musicals. Residents really enjoyed seeing Roger and singing along to his musical clips.
Local Pub Visit
Our residents had a lovely time visiting our neighbouring pub, The King Rufus. The staff was extremely welcoming to our group; residents said it was so nice to be able to get out and about enjoying a lovely pint in the beer garden.
Royal Celebrations
Residents and staff had a lovely afternoon celebrating the Queens 95th birthday. The celebrations were a little muted this year due to the passing of the Duke of Edinburgh. Residents enjoyed raising a glass to Her Majesty at a lovely afternoon tea.
Minibus Trips
We are pleased to announce that we are now able to take our residents back out on the minibus following the change in government guidelines given out on 12th March. We have been enjoying trips to the New Forest and to Lee-on-the-Solent Seafront. Residents have been enjoying our travels.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
