Activities at Henford House Care Home

The residents at Henford House celebrated Harvest Festival in church service, Eva from Christ Church took the service and Pam our piano player played for the selection of hymns.  Resident Peter read a reading out loud and everyone sang very well and appreciate these types of service can take place as it is important for many of our residents that they can follow their faith.  At this time of year Henford House starts a collection box for Warminster food bank which we have done for many years now and realise how many members of the community rely on this.

Following our successful annual garden party at the end of July and fund raising for Salisbury Hospital Stars Appeal, general manager Charlie Osgood was very pleased to visit the hospital and donate £650, which was gratefully received. 

Celebrations were had for our resident at Henford House, Linda was so pleased to receive her birthday card from the king and queen, the first one to be delivered  to Henford House, Linda celebrated with her son and received some lovely cards and gifts and made a wish after blowing her candles out.

We are thrilled to have our new kiln in place for our pottery sessions.  Pottery has been running for many years here at Henford House supervised by our potter Alvin and volunteer Sally, many residents enjoy creating their projects and when they have the finished result they like to give them to family and friends.  The old kiln gave up a couple years ago and all the residents work had to go to Radstock to get kilned which has taken some time for the residents to complete their projects, but now we have this new one on site the finished results will be coming back much quicker now!

On Saturday 29th July Henford House had their annual garden party which luckily was able to take place outside in the garden as the weather remained kind for everyone for the afternoon.

General manager Charlie Osgood opened the event at 2pm. Residents, relations and the community gathered to enjoy country and western music with Vanessa, Tropical Discovery with Kris allowing many weird and wonderful creatures to be observed and handled.

Many trade stalls from the farmers country market and other traders were enjoyed along with the traditional tombola, wine or water and raffle. Delicious cakes, cream teas and a BBQ were also on offer.

Henford House are able to give Salisbury hospital stars appeal a donation of £650 and we thank everyone for attending and helping us raise this amount of money to go to a great cause.

Henford House invited the Warminster Stroke Club for a picnic in the garden, before covid the club had enjoyed a 3 course lunch in the dining room. From that dining experience we did gain a new resident so it was lovely for him to see some old faces and have a good old catch up,  which encouraged other residents to get involved and come and have a chat and meet new people whilst enjoying a delicious picnic and strawberries and cream, the weather remained kind and everybody had a great afternoon.