Activities at Henford House 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 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.
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
Incredible Eggs
The residents have been enjoying a truly special spring tradition at Henford House. Every year we purchase an egg hatching kit from Incredible Eggs and watch as the adorable baby chicks hatch and grow.
This is a hands on experience for our residents as they assist the chicks to escape their shells, help to feed them and are able to handle the little fluffy delights. Many of our residents owned chickens when they were growing up and it has been wonderful for them to experience this again.
25 Years of Service
We are very proud of the many staff who have worked with us at Henford House for years and decades. This week we were delighted to celebrate Lynda's 25 years of service.
The dedication shown by Lynda to caring for the residents over the decades has been an inspiration to many a new team member. Lynda's high standards are legendary at our home and we are pleased to see her honoured.
Salisbury dogs trust donations
Over a period of a couple months, staff and residents relations donated pre loved and new items to give to the Salisbury Dog Trust, General Manager Charlie filled his car up with dog beds, blankets, toys, food, treats, leads, harness’s, bowls. This was greatly received and appreciated, many dogs come in to the home when relations visit so everyone feels this was a really good donation.
Pet photography competition
Its Competition time at Henford House,
Send us your best Pet photos to be in with a chance to win a hamper worth £30
Closing date is Friday 2nd July with the winner being selected by our residents, so get snapping and send them in and you could win our lovely hamper worth £30
send in your photos to Henford@barchester.com
Coronation Celebrations
Henford House had a three day coronation celebration schedule starting on the Saturday with residents gathering to watch the TV coverage of watching King Charles being crowned including a warm buffet and wine for lunch followed by a country and western party with Vanessa. On Sunday the traditional roast for the coronation big lunch took place followed by a piano and accordion sing along with Sophie, on the bank holiday Monday the residents enjoyed a knees up with Jim playing guitar. It was a wonderful weekend all the residents had such a good time singing and enjoying delicious food and drink.
Celebrating St. Georges Day
The residents enjoyed celebrating St. George’s Day with a delicious traditional 3 course Sunday lunch and later on in the afternoon everyone got together for a jolly good old sing along with Sophie Eden who is regular at Henford House who always gets all the residents lively and they really enjoy hearing the accordion and piano.
