Activities at Milford House Care Home
The Activities Team at Milford House are dedicated to providing a range of stimulating activities for both groups and individuals, that promote both physical and mental wellbeing based upon resident's interests both past and present. As a member of the National Activity Providers Association (NAPA) the team are always striving to incorporate best practice into the array of activities on offer and to enhance their own skills through qualification with NAPA to NVQ Level 3 in Activities Provision. The team combine weekly activity favourites such as sherry mornings with special events, musical entertainments, slide shows, outings in our own mini-bus as well as interacting with local community groups such as Plain Arts Salisbury to showcase resident art and creativity and others who come into the home to interact with our residents. Milford House also benefits from a strong network of volunteers who support the Activity Team as they deliver their programme and who, along with friends and relatives, are always welcome to come and join in our sessions and outings.
Kylie Colman
Kylie has three years experience as an Activities Co-Ordinator and has loved every moment! Having recently joined the Milford team she is looking forward to getting to know all our residents and to delivering, alongside the rest of the team, an interesting and diverse programme of activities. She loves being outside and in particular organising trips out of the home and activities and events that take place in our gorgeous gardens.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Milford House Care Home
Animal Magic
Residents spent a wonderful afternoon getting up close and personal with a number of animals that were just crying out to be petted. We had Thor, the lovely rather large rabbit who was just a softie, Chloe the 'skinnypig' (a hairless guinea pig) who had skin like velvet, Gimley the Australian Sand Lizard and Slider the American Corn Snake. It was a fascinating afternoon learning all about these animals and then getting to know them personally.
Valentine's Tea
Here at Milford House our dining room was a sea of red hearts as we celebrated Valentine's Day with a tea party. We all joined in singing songs with a romantic flavour before tucking into a wonderful heart-shaped cake. The honour of cutting the cake was given to two residents who were just a couple of days away from celebrating their 68th wedding anniversary. We all congratulated them and had to ask what their secret was!
Mardi Gras at Milford House
Milford House have celebrated Mardi Gras (literally 'Fat Tuesday') with an afternoon of Jazz from the MSC Collective. Our dining room was decked out in the traditional Mardi Gras colours of green, purple and gold, the residents had made table decorations and we listened to amazing New Orleans Jazz. What better way to spend the afternoon!
Snowdrops in Spring
We have brought spring inside today with a lovely bunch of snowdrops which the residents have thoroughly enjoyed! We read poems, explored writings and other aspects of February in our morning activity whilst sitting round the snowdrops! Along with the sunshine pouring into our conservatory today they have brought a feeling that, despite the very bad weather forecast for the next few days, Spring could be just around the corner!
Mardi Gras
Residents at Milford House are looking forward to celebrating Mardi Gras. After a traditional lunch featuring pancakes, we will be settling down for our own mini mardi gras which features a mardi gras tea and music, traditional jazz from the MSC Collective. They came and played for us in the summer and went down a storm so we will be having a thoroughly happy afternoon in advance of Lent!
Exploring Art at Milford House
We have just held the third of our 'Exploring Art' afternoons, which again featured pictures and items from the Wallace Collection. The theme this time was 'Stories' and we explored pictures and objects that represented Greek and Roman myths and scenes from Shakespeare. Pictured is a small plaque of Hercules slaying the Lion which we looked at on screen and then explored with lifesize bronze and plaster casts so that we could really see and feel the fine detail of the work for ourselves. We had a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon and are looking forward to exploring the next set of artefacts.
Upcoming events
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We have a room that is available to hire for free to members of the local community.
