Activities at Hilderstone Hall 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.
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.
Ellie Robinson
Hi, my name is Ellie and I am the Activities Co-ordinator here at Hilderstone Hall.
I joined the team in November 2024 having previously worked in hospitality and event planning. I am not new to working in healthcare - earlier in my career I trained and worked as a Care Assistant and obtained my NVQ Level 2 and Higher Diploma Level 3 in Health and Social Care.
I bring bags of energy and enthusiasm and I enjoy spending time with Residents, getting to know them individually, their personalities, likes and dislikes. Ultimately, this enables me to plan and deliver a tailored activities programme to suit their wants and needs.
I am also a qualified florist, which supports the creativity involved in the role and I can inspire Residents to participate in regular and new activities and events.
Outside of work, I am a Mum to my young Son, which keeps me busy! In my spare time my family and I enjoy getting out in the the fresh air for walks and there is usually a coffee and cake stop too!
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
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.
Oak tree farm rural project
We ventured out into the local community on our mini bus to visit a local project which provides occupations for adults with learning disabilities. Our residents enjoyed the beautiful rural setting and the tea rooms were a delight with china tea ware and delicious homemade cakes. We also had the opportunity to browse some of the projects makes that they had for sale within the project.
Biddulph male voice choir
Keeping community connections is an important part of our life enrichment here at Hilderstone Hall. One of our residents had previously been a member of the Biddulph male voice choir before joining us, performing for many people within the local community and surrounding areas. Biddulph male voice choir joined us here for the afternoon and performed for us all it was delightful to see our resident re-join his group.
Hilderstone Hatchery
As spring arrived we decided to hatch our own chickens. The residents of Hilderstone hall learnt all about chicken husbandry and all also the care required to hatch and incubate the eggs. Within the days that followed an incubator a brooder and a box of ten eggs were delivered for us to use. This project went down a treat with the residents and gave them a sense of responsibility. The delight and excitement was lovely to see on the residents faces when 7 little chicks appeared.
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