Activities at Hafan-Y-Coed Care Home

Wow what a day. Our fabulous activities-team have once again put on such a great themed event. We decorated our home like a school and dressed up in school attire to add to a great fun day for all. From our school yard to tuck shop, staff room or canteen, there was a place for everyone to enjoy the school atmosphere! 

The amazing Philharmonic choir performed and also made a huge effort in dressing for the occasion! 

I don't know where to start with the list of people to thank, but for every single person who came to our event or helped in any way, we can't tell you what days like these mean to our residents. As you can see from their faces, they've thoroughly enjoyed themselves as did we, the staff. Thank you.

If you go down to Hafan today you’re sure of a big surprise,
If you go down to Hafan today you better go in disguise,
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic! 

We welcomed back the wonderful children from Serendipity crèche pembrey to join us for a Teddy bears picnic. Unfortunately rain stopped play outside, so we brought our picnic in. 

The children enjoyed singing, dancing, catching bubbles and cwtching our residents as well as eating a lovely picnic, and had lovely gifts from our very own Clare Bear !  

We love having these visits as the children are always a delight and bring so much joy to our residents. 

We recently took some of our residents to Amelia's Vintage Tearoom; homemade & handcrafted. We received a very warm welcome, and the food was absolutely fantastic. Vince was happy to see liver and onions on the menu and said it was the best he had tasted in a long time. 

After food we had a scenic drive around the local area, and we reminisced about the places we had visited in the past and how much they have changed. 

A lovely day was had by all who went. 

Continuing on from our 'cocktails and dreams' event in our home last week, we took some of our residents on the minibus to a fabulous new cocktail bar in Swansea to experience a live demonstration from a real life mixologist (aka Tom cruise)

The ladies chose from the menu and enjoyed a variety of cocktails from 'beetles Juice' to 'tequila eclipse of the heart' there was a favourite for everyone who went. 

We have enjoyed our ''Get Barchester Moving' week with various activities to get everyone more active within our home. 

During the week residents have enjoyed colourful chair exercise classes, dancethons, dog walking, car washing and today flying kites down at the  beach. We jumped on the bus and ventured to our lovely local beach in Llanelli, where residents soaked up the sun and sea air. Getting our move minutes in with various beach themed activities was our aim and flying the kites were the most fun! Gloria said "thankfully it's a windy day or the kite wouldn't get very far. I really enjoyed my ice cream and the company". 

Some wonderful employees of Barchester Healthcare have been raising funds for the Barchester Foundation by cycling from Carmarthen to Oxford. This charity helps support older people and adults with disabilities to connect and re-connect with others in their local community.

A whopping 200 miles were cycled, stopping at many of our care homes along the way. Hafan Y Coed pulled out all the stops in providing the best welcome to the amazing cyclists. We were joined by two local schools, Stebonheath and Ysgol Y Strade who made their own welcome flags and cheered them en route. 

During the day everyone was treated to an ice-cream from the van, a BBQ and cocktail bar were also on offer whilst various fund raising activities, such as a cake sale and name the bear took place.

We have made a tremendous amount of money for the charity and would like to thank all who took part in our event.