Activities at Kings Park Care Home
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Claudia Canosa
Claudia moved to the UK from her native South Africa with her family some 6 years ago, although her family are of Italian decent.
With a caring nature, Claudia worked for a domiciliary care company helping in people in the community before eventually working in a care home environment, working up to the role of Senior Carer.
Realising how much she enjoyed making the residents smile, Claudia has now stepped into the role of Activities Lead here at Kings Park and very much loves the interaction with our residents, who have all taken a real shine to her.
Claudia can regularly be seen with our residents in a very creative capacity, enjoying flower arranging or leading everyone in a game of good old fashioned Bingo!
When at home, Claudia is a mother to two boys and a girl and also a pet mum to the the gorgeous, Molly - a Jack Russell cross.
She loves nothing more than curling up on the sofa in front of a good rom/com, with: The Holiday, The Lakehouse and The Notebook as some of her favourites to date.
We are so happy to have her as part of the Kings Park team.
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 Kings Park Care Home
Eric's EPIC Walk!
Eric is a 91 year old resident here at Kings Park who can often be seen by staff walking up and down in the home's gorgeous garden in a bid to stay fit and able. Staff asked Eric if he wanted to walk not just for fitness, but for a purpose, in order to help others.
He immediately agreed and thus, Eric's Epic Walk was born!
Eric will be spearheading our campaign to get everyone out and walking together, boosting our physical and mental health and also donating whatever you can afford to two local charities: -
Lewis-Manning Hospice Care & Julia's House Children's Hospice
The latter, being Eric's late wife, Grace's favourite charity.
We are asking that anyone who is able, to get out of the house and walk with friends, families, dogs, workmates, crewmates, church groups, clubs, societies etc. and walk one mile together (or more if you fancy it). This can be done whenever it suits, day or night, but in doing so, give a little (or whatever you can afford), to Eric's Epic Walk fund, so that we can spilt the proceeds between the two charities.
We want to keep tabs of the number of miles walked and see where the equivalent miles would take us all on the map, so do let us know how many people have joined in so we can keep track. (Our first target equivalent is 100 miles - or from Ferndown to Buckingham Palace, but we are sure we can smash that...)
The walking week will take place: -
Monday 10th July - Friday 14th July
So rally those around you and GET INVOLVED!
You can donate by clicking on the link below: -
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/ericsepicwalk
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If you would like to learn more about Eric's Epic Walk, or know more about life at Kings Park Care Home or to book a tour, then please give our friendly team a call on: -
01202 863 630
'If you could see what I could see...'
We were channelling our inner George Formby here in the home recently, as we were very excited to welcome through our doors members of the Ferndown Ukulele Society.
We have invited this fabulously musical group of individuals to come along and use our top floor dining room for their rehearsal space each week and in exchange, they have agreed to put on a concert for our residents every few months - It's a win, win!
Just having this wonderful group coming into our home is truly lovely and after their sessions they will be stopping off for a chat and a cuppa with our lovely residents too.
Go, Team Barchester!
This week we have been busy raising money for this year's Barchester's Charitable Foundation's Tour De Barchester...
With the cycling challenge well under way, having finished yesterday's first leg in Sherborne at our sister home, Trinity Manor Care Home - Barchester Healthcare after a gruelling 65 miles, today we went down to our other sister home, Parley Place Care Home - Barchester Healthcare to cheer on the cyclists after this morning's push from Upton Bay
Residents from Kings Park went along on the home's minibus, to welcome the cyclists as they came in for a pit stop, before heading off again.
Earlier in the week we held a cake sale to raise funds for the event - Thank you to all of the those who supported this, but if you didn't manage to come along, then you can still find out more about our Charitable Foundation, the Tour De Barchester and donate here: -
Another Lovely Volunteer...
Did you know it's actually Volunteer Week from the 1st - 7th June?
Take a look here: -
Word has certainly travelled around Ferndown Upper School that Barchester Healthcare's Kings Park is the place to come for a fun time, as we recently welcomed the lovely Sophie into our fold...
Sophie, a VIth form student at the school, is looking to study medicine in future and once she realised that we were able to facilitate with a little volunteering work for her in the elderly care sector, she was quick to come along to the home and see for herself.
Intelligent, caring and VERY personable, make for what we all think are wonderful attributes in any doctor and we are so happy to have Sophie come along and spend time engaging with our lovely residents.
Sophie, we already value you as a wonderful addition to our home and love having you here!
Say 'Hello' if you see her about our home when you visit.
With other Ferndown Upper Students, Kayla & Chloe already volunteering here at Kings Park, we are building quite the team - But there's always room for more!
Do let us know if you wish to learn more about volunteering opportunities at Kings Park!
A Wheely Good Time!
Following on from our previous post celebrating Stan's special 101st birthday trip, whilst Stan was off exploring with his family at leisure, some of our residents were also enjoying a mooch about Beaulieu, National Motor Museum...
Reminiscing our way around caused so much nostalgia and discussions about first cars, favourite cars, parents' cars and much more!
We saw some VERY famous cars, such as, Bluebird, as well as cars from on screen such as Del Boy's Robin Reliant from Only Fools & Horses and Mr Bean's Mini.
Sheila could not contain herself and was adding more and more to her car shopping list on the way around, whilst Alan was very happy at seeing a simple black Riley, which he was all too familiar with.
By a clear mile, everyone's favourite was definitely the car made famous by the late Sally Anne Howes and very fabulous Dick Van Dyke: Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang! Did you know that there was actually six different Chittys used for the original film, one of which is in the museum? Another Chitty in the museum is a actually a replica used for driving on special occasions. It is also said that Chris Evans also owns a driveable Chitty too!
Stan's Beaulieu-ful 101st Birthday Wish Come True!
When Kings Park resident, Stan, was recently asked for his birthday wish, he responded: 'A trip to Beaulieu would be lovely.' So his wish was our command...
Getting to work to organise this very special birthday trip, Home Services Advisor, Rebekah Goddard, quickly reached out to Beaulieu, National Motor Museum, who were incredibly helpful in making this trip an extra special one!
Upon arrival at the museum with Stan's son and daughter-in-law, as well as two of our other residents, Alan & Sheila, Stan was met by the most wonderful sign placed in the foyer by the lovely staff at Beaulieu, with everyone there wishing him well - Such a delightful way to start his trip.
Upon entering the museum itself, Stan met with tour guides Nick & Paul, who bent over backwards to ensure he was given extra special treatment during his time there. Sharing their knowledge about the various cars on display, Stan was then led down to a stunning Rolls Royce, where he was invited to climb inside, much to Stan's awe and delight!
Finally, Stan was taken to see a very special vehicle, a Maxwell Charabanc 1922, which also donned advertising for the Motor Museum and coincidentally was built the year of Stan's birth.
A HUGE THANK YOU to the Beaulieu team for going above and beyond to make this trip a very memorable one - Stan and Kings Park are so very grateful to you all!
At Barchester Healthcare's Kings Park we love making wishes come true!
