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
Flower arranging
To celebrate international flower day we decided to do a spot of flower arranging. Our residents used their senses to create two eye catching flower arrangements. Within these arrangements we used many types of flowers including carnations, gypsophelia and gladiola. These arrangements have been a welcome addition to our reception area. We have some budding florists in the making.
Race Day
During the month of January we held a race day with our residents they enjoyed choosing their horses and seeing who would win! We also watched some virtual races and thoroughly enjoyed getting into the race day spirit. Race day wouldn’t be complete without a toast to the winners, we enjoyed a sip or two of bucks fizz and embraced the atmosphere. A brilliant afternoon was had by all.
Furry friends therapy
This month at Hilderstone Hall we spent the afternoon with some animal friends. Many of our residents have had pets and animals in the past before moving to Hilderstone hall. We were visited from a 17 week old dachshund called penny a Guinea pig and a mini lop rabbit. Penny went down a treat and gave our residents some much needed interaction with animals. Animal therapy has many benefits to our residents including reducing stress.
Armchair travels to Italy
Travel has played a big part in many of our residents lives. With this in mind we brought a taste of Italy to Hilderstone Hall we travelled through Italy virtually, passing many famous Italian land marks on the way. After we tasted some typical Italian culinary delights.
Cinema afternoon
We brought the cinema to Hilderstone this month. Our residents enjoyed watching a musical classic the greatest showman.
The residents enjoyed an array of snacks from the concession stand and reminisced about cinema trips from the past a great afternoon was had by all.
Jacksons Nursery festive trip
The residents here at Hilderstone Hall enjoyed a trip out with our activities team, to partake in a festive two course lunch within the Staffordshire country side. There was a wonderful array of Christmas gifts, decorations and culinary delights. The residents enjoyed being able to browse the shops and this truly got us into the festive spirit.
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