Activities at Kernow House Care Home
Our Activities Coordinators organise varied and regular events. The activities that take place depend on what our residents tell us they are interested in and the feedback we get from their families. We currently have pop-up cafes where we socialise and maybe visit the hairdresser. We have regular live music events, a storyteller and visits from animals and we are often joined by families or friends during our social activities where they are always most welcome.
Living in Cornwall the surrounding countryside offers many beauty spots and we often have trips out to wherever our residents would like to go. At other times a walk to nearby shops or cafes is what we enjoy.
Louise is our hairdresser and she is with us twice a week. Louise also supports us during our weekly Namaste sessions where she offers hand massages in a relaxing environment. Every Thursday afternoon we have a time of worship supported by our local community. Our ice cream van, Kernow Kones, and our mobile pub, Kernow Keg, also make a weekly appearance. We have monthly clubs, when we play bingo or watch a film in our pop-up cinema. Residents on all units are invited to take part in a monthly Resident’s Meeting and they tell us what they would like.
Apart from these regular events, we also celebrate special occasions and often have musical entertainers to visit but we also make our own fun. All staff take part in fancy dress or charity events that we support and often what we do evolves through interaction between residents and care or activity staff. All this makes Kernow House a vibrant place to be where things happen both as group activities as well as on an individual level.
Bea Porup
Bea has many years of experience working in elderly care and both experience and training in dementia care. She has also worked extensively with people with Huntington's disease. Bea works closely with Sue, Jackie and our management team, nurses, carers and kitchen team to ensure our home has a vibrant environment with lots of events happening and varied opportunities for having both new and familiar experiences, making sure the people living here lead a rich and fulfilling life.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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 Kernow House Care Home
Kernow Kones
We have our very own ice cream van! Charlie Rothon has spent many evenings at home during the last year planning and plotting how to make us an ice cream van. He collected many of the items used to build the van until finally he had enough. Charlie is a joiner by trade and is truly creative. He took us all by surprise when he presented us with the Kernow Kones van. He is pictured here with Careen having the first ice cream and, in the future, the van will go around to all residents so everyone can enjoy the good ol' experience of the ice cream van coming. Thank you so much, Charlie!
A Visit from Cracker
Cracker is a miniature Shetland pony, who came to see us for “pony cuddles.” He walked with his owner, Wendy, throughout the entire home, visiting residents wherever they were. Cracker was happy to travel in the lift, so he was able to get to everyone and even visited people in their beds. He was very well behaved, so we will definitely ask him to come back soon.
International Joke Day
Victor Body, who is 83 years young and lives at Kernow House, tells this joke:
Which sea creatures have the most fun? The ones who have a whale of a time!
Happy International Joke Day!
Care Home Open Day
We invited healthcare professionals to join us at Kernow House on Care Home Open Day. The team was here to greet anyone who visited and to chat about what we do.
We showcased our menus, activities programmes and showed off our new Kernow House brochure. Kathy, our Aromatherapist, was busy giving taster hand massages, and Dan, our Head Chef, had made some very delicious looking and canapés, which were enjoyed by visitors, residents and staff alike.
Fundraising Week
We had a fundraising week, where we raised money for Barchester’s Charitable Foundation and Huntington’s Association. For a whole week, we sold crafts, plants, books, CDs, DVDs and bric-a-brac.
A relative very kindly donated a week’s self-catering holiday in Carbis Bay, so we had a secret auction. We also held a raffle with prizes, given to us by staff and relatives, as well as some beautiful glass art, donated by Jo Downs Handmade Glass, and a hamper, along with bottles of wine donated by Maddaford Funeral Directors. Altogether, we raised £374.55.
Our Divisional Winner
Congratulations to Sandy Hart, who has been named as a divisional winner for the 'Memory Lane Champion' category in the 2017 Barchester Care Awards.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
