Activities at Flowerdown 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 home is always full of life, and we can thank our wonderful Activities Coordinators for this. Dedication to creating a unique and interesting activities programme is what sets us apart from other homes. We always take into consideration that some people would prefer to pursue their own interests, which is why our team strive to incorporative activities that cater to a wide range of tastes and hobbies. Our trips out are always fun and exciting as well, and residents are guaranteed to return with stories to tell their loved ones!
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 Flowerdown Care Home
National Activity Providers & Professionals Week
It is National Activity Providers Week, and we would like to take this opportunity to recognise and thank our wonderful Life Enrichment team, Sophie Palmer, Vicki Giles, Emma Bacciarelli and Jacob Hodgkiss for all the fun and laughter they bring to the home.
We are proud of the dedication and creativity they bring to enrich our residents every single day. They always go above and beyond their role and for this we are truly grateful.
Special celebrations are also taking place at the home throughout the week with residents, friends and fellow colleagues.
Zoolab
Our residents had an exciting afternoon with a wild encounter and interactive experience from ZooLab, and an opportunity to meet some fascinating creatures! Everyone had an opportunity to learn, interact, and even hold these fascinating creatures.
They learnt lots of interesting facts and were also able to interact with the animals. The ZooLab Ranger introduced our residents to a corn snake, hissing cockroach, a tree frog, a stick insect and a giant centipede.
It’s always such a joy to see our residents' interactions, their smiles, curiosity, and excitement!
A big thank you to ZooLab for an unforgettable experience!
Chef Academy!
We are excited to announce chef, Jander De Sousa, has graduated from Barchester’s Chef Academy in the Class of 2024.
Jander’s passion for his role, commitment and dedication is second to none. He is dedicated to continually developing dishes that are nutritional, appetising as well as being tasty. Jander is very well known amongst our residents and takes pride in catering to the highest of standards.
General Manager, Claudia Nunes, said: “This is an amazing achievement and the whole home wants to congratulate Jander. We are so proud of them. Jander is an outstanding chef. They are extremely creative, producing wonderful three-course menus for residents every day for lunch and dinner. This has been a chance to showcase to others in the company just what they can do in terms of skill set and maintaining high standards of presentation together with nutritious meals. Jander’s food is just fabulous, the residents love their delicious meals, they are such a talented chef.”
Cathedral Visit
Did you know that Winchester Cathedral has been a living place of worship and welcome for over 900 years?
We had a special outing yesterday to the Winchester Cathedral! We managed to see a few of the breath taking sights within the cathedral and the architecture is mesmerising!
They also had their wonderful Christmas tree up and adorned with spectacular lights!
It was surpassed by listening to the choirs rehearsing and it was truly captivating!
Winchester Community Choir Visit
Yesterday the Flowerdown family and residents had the pleasure of welcoming the Winchester Community Choir.
They filled our home with Christmas spirit, singing a selection of classic Christmas carols. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed joining in, evoking feelings of nostalgia and tradition.
What a wonderful and uplifting way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
Christmas Wreath Making
We all came together today for a festive Christmas countdown activity, and created a Christmas wreath!
Everybody loved getting creative and embracing the tradition which carries sentiments of hope, warmth and celebration! We used evergreens like pine, holly and ivy, to reflect the resilience of life and nature, even in the depths of Winter.
It was such a fun and festive day, full of laughter and chatter and the residents really enjoyed themselves and were all proud of their creations!
