What types of care does Hickathrift House Care Home offer?

Hickathrift House Care Home offers Residential care, Dementia care, Respite / Short stay.

Activities at Hickathrift 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.

We have two Activities Coordinators here at Hickathrift House. We have a wide range of activities within the home, including musical entertainment, arts & crafts, clubs for like-minded people, such as flower arranging and gardening, board games, baking (where the best bit is the eating afterwards!), and we celebrate special events throughout the year. We also have trips out on a regular basis using our own minibus, where we find out places of interest each person would like to visit.

It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these activities as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join in with activities and events as often as they can.

For the less mobile residents, we unique one-to-one session, such as simple chats over a cup of tea, reading or listening to music. Activities are some 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 Hickathrift House is fun and active.

Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Kat Colangelo

Activities Lead

Hello, my name is Kat and I am the Activities Lead here at Hickathrift House.

Since 2017 I have been working in the field of well-being and I am passionate and enthusiastic about enriching all our of residents' quality of life.

As the Activities Lead at Hickathrift House, my focus is learning about each of our resident's likes and dislikes and supporting them to remain receptive and active in addition to supporting them to engage with our local community friends.

I organise activities to stimulate the mind, body and soul in an enjoyable, comfortable way. My aim is to diversify and increase activities ensuring that there is something for everyone - from Wine and Cheese events, excursions on our home Mini Bus as well as individual bespoke person-centered activities.

Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.

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 Hickathrift House Care Home

Remembrance Crafts

In the lead-up to Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday, residents have enjoyed creating beautiful poppy pictures and wonderful crafts to go on our display and around Hickathrift House.
The fabulous Debbie from Gratitude 43 joined us to make stunning bottled centrepieces for our 1940s dining experience. Residents are always thrilled to learn and build on their impressive decoupage skills. We've also enjoyed mindful colouring which has sparked wonderful memories. Earlier this week we also joined the local Crafty Ladies Club at Marshland Hall & Tearoom for a hot beverage and a spot of poppy tissue crafts and knitting.
Arthur shared wonderful tales of being in the Air Force and the people he met while Norah shared that she met her husband when working in the WREN. There are many fantastic stories to share with staff that we all thoroughly enjoyed hearing.

Peters Wish

This month we started granting Peter's wish with our Post a Wish initiative. Peter's wish is to continue his deep passion for local history, so, we suggested visiting all of the amazing museums in the area, starting with the fabulous Stories of Lynn Museum.
We all had an incredible time at the beautiful Stories of Lynn Museum at the Town Hall with Luke, Kings Lynn Borough Archivist and Karen, Tourist Information Supervisor. Residents, especially Peter, were thrilled to discuss the local history, see the royal shields, artwork and manuscripts as well as dressing up together.
Peter said, "I'm so pleased I got to pick Luke’s brains and learn about the south gates. He's very knowledgeable and passionate".
It was a fantastic trip for all to share tales of visiting and living in Kings Lynn while enjoying the scrumptious treats and fabulous company. A huge thank you to the wonderful staff and volunteers at the Stories of Lynn Museum.

Home launches Dementia Cafe

Hickathrift House in Marshland St James, Wisbech, have recently launched a dementia café for residents as well as members of the local community after upgrading their activities room, ‘the Snug’. The new Dementia Café was launched as a welcoming space for carers in the community and their loved ones who may be living with dementia. Taking place every third Friday of the month, guests will have a chance to meet other carers, gain support and advice for their loved ones living with dementia and have a chance to meet the team at the home, to discuss any questions they might have about care.

Armistice Day

Hickathrift House Care Home in Marshland st James commemorated the signing of the Armistice Day agreement on the day that the guns finally fell silent. They joined the rest of the United Kingdom in holding a two-minute silence at the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, along with members of the local community at the war memorial in Wisbech, including the Mayor and Mayoress, High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire, Steven Barclay MP and the local cadets and military attendees.

High Sheriff visits Hickathrift

Hickathrift House Care Home in Marshland St James welcomed the High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire, Dr Bharat, his wife Mrs Khetani and Kim Taylor of ‘Wisbech Tweet.’ The residents and staff were thrilled to be approached and asked for a visit due to the High Sheriff being so happy with what he saw online about the home.

On Monday 13th November, the High Sheriff and his lovely wife arrived at Hickathrift House and was welcomed by General Manager Paula Colman, Deputy Manager Sarah Sage and Activities Coordinator Emily Jackson, before being given a grand tour of the home and introduced to all the residents

Pumpkin Patch

Barchester’s Hickathrift House care home, in Marshland St James, got in the Halloween spirit by visiting Worzals to see Rusty’s Great Pumpkin Patch.

On the 29th of October, Hickathrift House Care home, while working with the team at Worzals, took a bus full of residents and 3 carers to the pumpkin patch. Residents and staff had a brilliant time exploring the various themed areas from Stanger Things to Hocus Pocus. In additional to the beautiful themes the residents and staff loved seeing the various types of pumpkins available to purchase.