Activities at Hickathrift House Care Home

We celebrated this day of love with crafts, sharing wedding day photos and a party celebrating all types of love, self-love, friend love and romantic love. Residents loved reminiscing, dancing and singing along to the incredible singing by musical entertainers. As well as being a little silly and trying on the themed dress-up accessories. 

We welcomed the community, residents, their loved ones and staff to our Big Breakfast Morning in order to raise money for the Stroke Association. Staff at Hickathrift House went the extra mile by showing off their favourite PJ’s. Locals from the community who attended chatted with residents and shared stories of their favourite meals, life stories and local history. It was a fabulous morning getting to know everyone over a scrumptious meal, as well as, raising £79 for the Stroke Association. 

The talented knitters at Hickathrift House care home, in Marshland St James, Wisbech have come to the aid of King’s Lynn Hospital who issued a plea that their maternity department was looking for donations of knitted hats for their newborn babies.

Residents at Hickathrift House care home sprang into action and helped meet the call by creating an incredible 67 hats and several cardigans for the newborn babies too. They’ve been knitting stretchy hats for the past month and on January 24th delivered them all to the hospital. They were met by three midwifery community team leaders, the Central Delivery Suite Housekeeper, Ward Clerk and a Professional Midwifery Advocate Midwife, who were all over the moon with their donations. The group from King’s Lynn Hospital Maternity department spent time chatting to the residents over a cup of tea and looking at all the wonderful brightly-coloured hats and cardis.

G'day mate! It was a bonza of a day at Hickathrift House celebrating Australia Day together. We of course tried on the fabulous hats, learned about the First Fleet, took a virtual tour of the best that Australia has to offer and played boomerang with each other. We finished the day off by trying to guess what the various slang terms meant and watched the film, Australia.
Jan said, "What an interesting country. There's so much to see and do".

Craft club at Hickathrift House paid homage to the King of Rock n Roll by designing these spectacular records. While we were getting crafty, we enjoyed listening to his music and reminisced about his movies. In the afternoon we took part in an Elvis-themed quiz and as a team scored 8 out of 10. We definitely have some hound dog fans at Hickathift House.

Residents requested our first outing of 2023 to be a trip to the January sales. So we headed to Kings Lynn to visit the various clothing, gift and card shops that took everyone's fancy.

Residents not only picked up a bargain or two but loved a spot of retail therapy with friends. We laughed over various gifts, found the perfect coat and helped each other find the items they were after. Trips like this help to maintain independence, build friendships and support sensory needs.