Activities at Cossins House Care Home

Residents at Cossins house love to listen and sing along to live music. Each Friday we have a live singer during the afternoons. Residents sing along tap their feet and smile with happiness. Residents are able to reminisce with their past times and sing some of their old time favourites. Music is a great therapy to help people feel happy. Being able to come together as a group and enjoy ourselves, let off some steam and keep each other happy.

Each month at Cossins House we have an afternoon getting together to discuss things we like to do and any changes we wish for. This month residents asked to do more creative activities and asked to start some embroidery. We purchased some equipment and residents have been delighted to get hands on and start creating beautiful pictures. We will be continuing our craft sessions weekly to see what else we can produce as individuals and as a team.

It has been an absolute pleasure to help and support our local hospitals with our talents. Residents at Cossins House have taken to their knitting needles and produced many wonderful baby hats to donate to our local hospitals. Resident Anne was delighted to do a drop them off to Kingston Hospital and is continuing to knit more hats for other hospitals. Anne is very fond of helping others and said’ Just think that over fifty babies will be wearing hats that we made’. We as a team at Cossins House will be continuing during our afternoon Knit and Knatter sessions.

Residents and Relatives came together to celebrate Christmas 2023.  The fun, the laughter, the smiles and happiness bring joy to all. A delicious buffet followed by LIVE music with the wonderful Jane Beaumont and a Christmas raffle. Families and friends up on the dance floor singing away making many new memories.

Students from St Matthews School visited Cossins House to perform the songs from their recent Nativity. It was an absolute pleasure to have the students join us here and celebrate this festive period of 2023. The students all sang and performed different actions which we were able to copy and ended by singing some Christmas Carols for us all to sing along too. We look forward to spending more time with our local school communities.

Residents at Cossins House were delighted to start their Christmas celebrations by visiting the Hilton Hotel in Cobham Surrey for a delicious festive lunch and Abba Tribute. Our lovely ladies, smiled with happiness, sang to all the songs and took to the dance floor. Each enjoyed a wonderful meal and a glass or two of wine. Resident Anne said ‘This is just wonderful, I have had such a great time and its just what I needed.’ Pat said ‘I haven t done anything this good in such a long time.