Activities at Hafan-Y-Coed Care Home
We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.
Marie Spires
I'm Marie, the lead activities coordinator for Hafan Y Coed. I have been the activities coordinator for nearly three years and am passionate about encouraging the wellbeing of our residents. Ensuring all abilities are catered for in a bespoke schedule is paramount to their individual wellbeing needs. I am joined by Clare and Sue who also help to create a life enrichment program suitable for all communities.
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 Hafan-Y-Coed Care Home
Monthly Gentleman’s Club
Our gents often enjoy a trip together to a point of interest. This week’s trip took us to Burry port Beach to the Harbour light tea rooms. We were warmly welcomed on arrival and due to the colder weather needed a nice warm drink. The gents decided upon a latte alongside their scones with jam and plenty of cream. Mal said it was the highlight of his week and could we go again next week.
Everyone said how much they enjoyed chatting and what a great afternoon they’d had on the bus outing.
Bringing the Seaside inside!
We may not have had the best weather this summer, but we haven’t let that spoil our fun. The scene was set for the residents to enjoy a seaside themed day, with musical entertainment from the fantastic Robbie Lee who sang songs like “We’re all going on a summer holiday” to “oh I do like to be beside the seaside”, everyone really got in to the spirit of a virtual seaside day.
Ice-cream cones with sprinkles and strawberry sauce were on offer from our ice-cream van and for a savoury treat, chips in a traditional newspaper cone were enjoyed. Gloria said “It was a lovely day and it got us all talking about our trips with our families and when we were children”. Ed said “The chips in the cone were a nice touch on the day”.
Gents enjoy a Reptile Experience
Today we took the trip to Carmarthen on the Minibus with some of our brave gentlemen.
Everyone had the opportunity to hold a snake, spider, bearded dragon and turtle to name a few. Even our activities team held a snake around their neck….definitely not for the faint hearted.
Cliff said “That was a great day out with my pals. I especially enjoyed the pint on the way home”.
Holding on to summer!
Each week we sit down and discuss our favourite recipes and then make the most popular after a vote by the residents.
Our residents choice of recipe this month was to make Banana Splits. Highly likely to be one of our final summer recipes ahead of the winter warmer classics. We rolled up our sleeves and peeled our bananas before adding our favourite toppings, alongside our ice-cream flavour, whipped cream, finished off with a cherry or two.
The proof was in the pudding and they devoured every bit of this classic summer dessert!
Greek Day
Today we have taken a virtual trip to Greece with residents. With fairy lights twinkling and a botanical scene to create a perfect Greek restaurant! Some residents dressed up like Greek gods and goddesses and our activities team did some Greek dancing to music, whilst everyone smashed a plate or two, keeping with the Greek tradition. The hospitality team put on a fabulous Greek themed menu of, Tzatziki, Souvlaki, moussaka, followed by Greek yogurt and honey!
Day Trip To West Wales’ Favourite attraction
We have enjoyed various trip’s on the mini bus this month, but by far one of the residents favourites had to be the Trip to Folly Farm. We had planned the day for weeks ensuring those who had a love of animals were put forward to attend. Unfortunately we couldn’t have picked a wetter day for it, but it added to the fun! Let’s face it, we haven’t had the best weather this Summer so waiting for the next fine day was not an option. We packed up the bus with a picnic for all to enjoy at lunch, bought our fairground tickets in advance and planned the day with the map in hand. Cliff said “well, I haven’t been on fairground rides for years and it made me laugh out loud”. Indeg said her favourite part of the day was seeing the Giraffes and mentioned she hadn’t been to the farm since being a child and how much it had changed.
