Activities at Hickathrift House Care Home

Our annual Macmillan Coffee Morning was a huge success! Macmillan Cancer Support does incredible work and we are proud to support this wonderful charity in raising funds and awareness for them.
Residents and their loved ones enjoyed the array of cakes and sweet treats while chatting over a hot beverage. We all thoroughly enjoyed learning more about coffee from Oomph Wellness activity pack. Together we completed the themed word search and wrote coffee poems alongside reading some fabulous facts and stories about this everyday essential drink.
It has been a great chance for everyone to get together and do something good for an amazing charity. A huge thank you to the amazing family, friends and staff who joined us and donated baked goods! We greatly appreciate it!

As the school year starts, residents have shared their funniest, most inspirational and motivating words of wisdom to help the children kick off the term with a smile. Residents also shared fond delightful memories and wished all the children the very best for their first day. Our Hickathrift team made the day even more special by dressing up for the occasion, which brought the residents so much joy and laughter. Our collective Hickathrift wisdom is "Make the most of every moment!

What an exceptional show we saw at the beginning of September! Several residents headed to The Luxe Cinema for their event screening of Andre Rieu! All the residents and staff were in awe and absorbed in the music and atmosphere. It was a passionate experience that we were all delighted to be part of, especially as he is a firm favourite amongst many of the residents. 

A big thank you to the Cornish Seal Sanctuary for the fantastic live virtual event today!

Residents across our services loved seeing the seals up close and learning about the incredible work the sanctuary does to protect them and other wildlife in Cornwall as well.

Everyone truly enjoyed the experience. 

In August Den's wish was granted by our Post a Wish initiative. Den absolutely loved going fishing last year and was thrilled to head back to the lakes again this year. He enjoyed reminiscing about fishing, his greatest catches and early mornings on the lake.

All the gentlemen thoroughly enjoyed sitting in the sun (and a few drops of rain), looking at the catches of the day and reminiscing about life at Burlingham's Lake. Our amazing fisherman John caught an incredibly impressive 30 fish, which gave us something to cheer for.

Den said, "I've spent a morning or two sitting with my fishing rod by the lake. I've had some beautiful fish out of it. Thank you, it’s been great."

Wow! We had a fabulous time together with family, friends, residents, staff and volunteers today! We spent the afternoon chatting away over a glass of Pimm’s and plates full of delicious, barbequed food prepared by our Head Chef Nicci! Residents also loved being joined by Walpole Whippy for a scrumptious ice cream!

After filling our bellies, we sang and danced to the lovely singing by KJ & The Catt! Residents, their loved ones and staff enjoyed dressing up for the event and singing summertime songs together.

This momentous annual occasion was once again incredible, the whole patio was full of locals and family members chatting away with residents and staff. A huge thank you to everyone who came and made the event bigger than last year!