Activities at Hilderstone Hall Care Home
Our activities team are, first and foremost, devoted to each and every resident in the home, and strive to ensure that their interests, hobbies, capabilities and individual requests are met to the highest standard. This could include one-to-one chats, hand massages, reading, music therapy, flower arranging, movement to music, arts & crafts, gardening and baking. We also have regular fun, adventurous and stimulating trips, where we encourage families and loved ones to join us. We have close links with the Alzheimer's Society, the local primary school, and Trinity Skills who come to sing with residents. All the staff at Hilderstone Hall participate in activities with residents, offering encouragement, stimulation and interaction for everyone involved, providing the most fulfilling experience possible.
Hannah Perry
Hi I’m Hannah and I am the Activities Lead. I have two children and love spending time on my allotment growing fruit and veg. I joined the team at Hilderstone Hall in October 2023 and have become a valued member of the team. I enjoy working with the residents and getting to know them, as well as making sure they take part in various activities such as singing, crafts, baking and much more! I have over 9 years experience within the care industry and worked previously as an Activities Co-Ordinator before coming to Hilderstone.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Hilderstone Hall Care Home
Bobbies ice cream parlour
With the sunny weather appearing we ventured out to the local ice cream parlour, we reminisced about what our favourite child hood ice cream flavour was and also got to indulge in a scrumptious diary ice cream of our choice in a sugar waffle cone. There was also a small variety of animals for us to see including donkey’s goats and pigs. This fabulous treat afternoon was described as wonderful by our residents.
Barn Dancing
Community connects are an important part of life enrichment here at Hilderstone hall care home. This month we took the mini bus on a trip to the local village hall to join the local community for a barn dance. Our residents leaned how to line dance and got the opportunity to catch up and enjoy a social evening out with friends and family.
Canal boat Trip
Many resident within Hilderstone hall have travelled the world with this in mind we booked our own little adventure for the day in the form of a canal boat trip. We travelled on the mini bus to join the canal and hop on a boat for the day. We sailed along the canal and got to see many species of wildlife including baby goslings a heron and even some birds of prey. We stopped at the village of Colton to enjoy a traditional fish and chip lunch aboard the barge. The sun was on our side for the first half of our trip so we got to sit of the deck of the boat and enjoy the tranquil scenery fabulous trip was had by all.
Alzheimer’s society fund raising
Our residents and staff wanted to help raise awareness and raise funds for a charity that means a lot to us to celebrate and raise awareness during dementia action week we took part in a cyclethon. The residents and staff a like raised money per minute to cycle on our exercise bike the resident enjoyed the atmosphere and joining in to raise funds for such a worthy cause.
Celebrating dementia action week with Cadbury
During this month we have celebrated dementia action week we joined together with Cadbury’s and held a Cadbury reminiscence session Cadbury sent packages to our residents with some of their famous dairy milk bars with the old style packaging for our residents to enjoy, we also held a quiz on the Cadbury’s chocolate and joined a live event to celebrate the 200th year birthday and history of the Famous Cadbury brand. It was a pleasure to hear about our residents memories of the chocolate.
African drumming workshop
This month we have embraced culture through music. We were joined here at Hilderstone Hall for an African drumming workshop which included us learning how to play an African drum and how to recreate the beats to compose and a follow a song. It was thrilling to see our residents learn a traditional African song and join together to sing and play instruments, this afternoon was a big hit with the residents and gave them a fun filled cultural musical experience as part of our life enrichment programme.
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