Activities at Henford House Care Home
Our Activities Coordinators are constantly striving to mentally and physically stimulate those we support by organising group and individual activities for anyone and everyone to participate in, as well as visits from PAT dogs, musicians and entertainers. We also host evenings such as our cheese & wine nights, pub evening, quiz nights and special occasions such as, Guy Fawkes, Easter and Christmas where we like to encourage relatives to come to. Activities are one of the most important aspects of a care home, so it is essential that our team are dedicated to ensuring that residents are entertained, and that life at Henford House is fun and active.
Debbie Phillips
I joined Henford House in March 2014; after five and a half years of domiciliary care, this position became available at Henford and I decided that it would be great to do more of the fun things in life with residents! It is great here at the home; we get along so well and truly have some laughs. Residents have a wide range of activities to participate in each week, including armchair exercises, bingo sessions, singalongs, musical entertainment, pottery, manicures, celebrations and much more. It is very rewarding knowing that people are grateful for the work I've done when I go. Working here has also given me the opportunity to gain my Level 2 NAPA certificate.
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 Henford House Care Home
Macmillan Fundraising Afternoon
This year we had a fund raising afternoon for Macmillan, previous years we have held a coffee morning inviting the community.
The idea was to have a relaxed afternoon indulging delicious homemade cakes washed down with tea or coffee and sit back and enjoy Jane Bennett performing a great song list.
Posters and invites went out to the community and we were very pleased to welcome visitors in.
This charity is very close to many hearts and everyone donated generously by purchasing cakes and entering a small raffle.
It was a jolly afternoon with some singing along and tapping their toes to the music and we were really pleased to announce to everyone that just in the space of a couple hours we had raised over £200, and everyone applauded.
Donation to Wiltshire Air Ambulance
Residents at Henford House were thrilled to be able to visit the Wiltshire Air Ambulance based in Semington recently, where we handed over a welcomed donation.
The donation was from the proceeds of Henford's annual summer garden party, and although that was quite some time ago, we had to wait for a slot to attend the volunteers at the base. The the day finally came and unfortunately, the weather was not on our side. Even though it rained, everyone was still very enthusiastic about the trip.
The volunteers greeted us all and kindly took everyone on a tour. It was wonderful to get up close to the aircraft and get some lovely photographsy. It was also quite an emotional visit too, as one of the residents told a story about the air ambulance saving his daughter's life following a horse accident.
The volunteers and the pilot Elvis, educated us all about the daily operations of calls outs and answered any questions the residents had.
The residents then handed over the donation of £717 which was greatly appreciated.
Out and About on a mission
It is always great for the residents to get out and about in the community, to experience life outside the home, sometimes the residents loved ones make arrangements to meet us at the destination so they can join in, which we really encourage. General manger Trish asked the residents if they would mind taking on the task of finding 2 new plants with pots for the homes main entrance, the residents were delighted to be given this task and looked forward to visiting our local garden centre. Everyone loves to visit the café to enjoy the delicious cakes with tea and coffee. The sun was shining and the residents watched the ducks having a swim on the lake. Then they went on a mission as a group looking at different plants and pots, a decision was finally made and everyone was happy. The plants are on display now and the residents feel proud of their purchase!
Harvest Festival
The residents had a busy time preparing for our Harvest Festival service, making salt dough creations is always a great craft session and maintenance manager Colin Marsh used to be a professional baker and wanted to make a salt dough wheatsheaf with the residents, together they formed bits of the salt dough to make a life like sheaf to put on display for the harvest church service. The home grown potatoes also had to be harvested and the weather was kind to be able to do this outside in the garden and two bowls of potatoes were produced and enjoyed for supper with ham and salad. We had a wonderful service led by Eva Burton from Christ Church and Pam played the piano and many hymns were sang, we are very grateful for their time to make this happen for the residents. After lunch a good old sing song was had with Sian and Rob performing to complete a wonderful day.
Tropical Discovery
A big thank you to Kris Freeman for brining his extraordinary creatures this week to Henford House.
Our residents thoroughly enjoyed getting up close and personal with Kris's selection of animals such as Bearded Dragons, Tortoise and even a Snake.
This really was a different type of PET therapy than our normal fluffy friends.
It was great to get an insight into these amazing animals behaviours, our residents even at the opportunity to hold them.
A massive thank you again Kris!
A trip out in the Mini Bus!
We have been out and about in the Mini Bus and making most of this beautiful weather at Henford House.
Our visit this week was to one of our beautiful parks. The Pavilion Café is a favourite with all of our residents at Henford House and its great that its located in the beautiful grounds at Thoulston Park.
Its a beautiful little café to enjoy a good cup of coffee and delicious slice of cake with friends.
Our residents enjoy our trips out in the Mini Bus and visiting different local companies to support our community.
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.
