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
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.
Ladies Day!
We have been celebrating Ladies Day at Royal Ascot at Henford House!
Our lovely ladies donned their fanciest of hats to celebrate the occasion.Of course the celebration had to be toasted with a glass of bubbly and some tasty nibbles.
It was an afternoon of laughter and joy as we watched the anticipated races.
Here is to many more days of fun, friendship and fabulous hats!
Birds of Prey Visit
Henford House, had a special visit from some majestic guest's recently!
Sharandys Birds of Prey visited our home with a variety of bird's, from wise old owls to speedy falcons. It was an afternoon where our residents could really get up close and personal with these beautiful animals.
Their handlers shared facts and stories about each bird. The highlight of the day was when our lovely residents had the opportunity to hold these magnificent creatures.
We cant thank Sharandys Birds of Prey enough for their extraordinary visit.
