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.
Read our brochure
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
Dog Show
At Henford House we recently held our dog show and what a fantastic day it was!
A big thank you to everyone that joined us and of course their wonderful dogs. The day was filled with laughter, love and some furry cuddles.
There were lots of different categories for our furry visitors to enter, with many of them coming away with some delicious treats to enjoy.
Congratulations to all our winners and a special shout out to all the dogs that were on their best behaviour that day. We can't wait for next years!
Annual Garden Party
What a brilliant time we had at our annual garden party.
We didn't let the showers damping our spirts and the day was a huge success with our community coming together.
Thanks to the incredible generosity of everyone who attended, we raised over £700 for Wiltshire Air Ambulance.
A big thank you to Sharandys brids of prey and Freepeace for providing the entertainment on the day.
Pudding Club with The Royal Dragoon Guards
We had the pleasure of welcoming The Royal Dragoon Guards to this months pudding club who our residents thoroughly enjoyed sharing stories, chatting and welcoming them to our Henford House community.
Of course there was delicious selection of treats for everyone to enjoy from traditional cakes, cheesecake, and chocolate brownies.
The selection was mouth watering and just look at and those smiles, they were as sweet as the desserts.
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for a wonderful afternoon.
Bastille Day Celebration
We had a brilliant afternoon this week celebrating Bastille Day with a delicious French picnic!
Our residents enjoyed tasting all the different selection of French food, such as pate, olives and of course a selection of tasty cheese.
Our activities coordinator Debbie got in the spirit of the day and even dressed up for the occasion.
It was an afternoon of great tasting food and even better company.
We look forward to more themed afternoons together!
A visit from Charmworth Miniature Fashion
We had an incredible visit from Charmworth Miniature Fashion, who brought in their fabulous 1960s collection!
Our lovely residents had a wonderful time reminiscing about the fashion in the sixties. It was so interesting to discuss with our residents what their favoruite statment pieces were from that time, and how fashion from the sixties is making its way back into many items of clothing that we see today.
A heartfelt thank you to Charmworth for bringing back some much loved memories.
Volunteers celebration
Volunteers celebration took place luckily outside in the garden as the weather was so glorious, chef Adrian provided a traditional picnic of various sandwiches, sausage rolls, quiche, crisps and some delicious sweet treats, it was lovely for the residents to join them and have a chat and enjoy the refreshments in the sunshine. Volunteers are very precious for their amazing work they do helping out in so many valuable ways and deserve to be recognised and spoilt! Three of our volunteers pictured have given a combined 20 years of dedicated support to those living at Henford House Care Home, they have brought kindness, games, conversation, fun and friendship. We really value our volunteers and appreciate everything you do and we thank you for all you have done and do.
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.
