Activities at The Manor Care Home

Our activities staff are here 7 days a week and are constantly striving to mentally and physically stimulate those we care for in a group or individual basis. From trips to garden centres, the theatre, and flower shows to personal shopping and attending family events. We also love organising Christmas fairs, our famous classic car show, musicians, entertainment, and pizza and pint evenings. The team encourage families to visit and work closely with our volunteers to ensure that our residents social care is a priority, so that they have a fun filled and enriched stay whilst here at The Manor. 

Enriching life
Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Marc Chidgey

Life Enrichment Lead

I have worked at The Manor since 2012, starting out as a kitchen assistant, where I replenished drinks and snacks and assisted in serving meals in communal areas. During this time, outside of the kitchen, I enjoyed meeting residents and took pleasure in seeing their engagement during activities. My interest in resident activities was evident, and I was offered the opportunity to transfer to the activities team.

I love to spend time with residents. I enjoy hearing their stories and finding out what activities interest them. I aim to keep them as active as possible, and my top priority is to instill fun and laughter at The Manor.

Life-encriching activities booklet

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 The Manor Care Home

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Gardening Club

Our gardening club have been very busy this year in our Retreat. Growing a variety of fruit and vegetables. Here are our Aubergines, Gala Melons and crystal lemon cucumbers growing along nicely,  the heatwave defiantly helped with our exotic variety’s.

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Jubilee Celebrations

We would like to thank everyone who came and joined us at our jubilee garden party. We had a lovely time in the garden enjoying some wonderful music by Amy who we cannot thank enough for playing to us. We also had the most delicious food that was all handmade by our chef and our brilliant volunteers. It was just the most perfect afternoon to bring everyone together to celebrate such a fantastic occasion.

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Lunch Time BBQ

There's was no better way to kick-start the weekend with than having a BBQ for all to share. And to polish it off was a visit from the ice cream man to cool us down in the heat.

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Cricket

One of the many things we love here are taking our residents out to enjoy there hobbies. We are enjoying a lovely evening here watching Somerset County Cricket Club at the amazing county ground.

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Jubilee Art

We had such a lovely and creative morning creating a jubilee piece just in time for our jubilee street party. Thank you Colette @CreativeMojoMidDevonAndWestSomerset we had such a great time creating this piece of art.

Music

Here at The Manor this morning we had one of our favourite musicians Justin Daish Music come and perform to us in the garden. We enjoyed the lovely sunshine, the chorus from the birds and singing from lead vocals from Justin.

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.