Activities at Mortain Place Care Home
Our activities team are great at building the activities programme around the likes and interests of the people we care for. Ensuring that our social events offer fun and adventure is part of the ethos of our home; it’s important that those we support can enjoy an active and social lifestyle. Of course, there will always be those who prefer peace and quiet, and in these instances, a cup of tea and a chat are always welcomed.
Alex Leftley
I was working in the print trade when a friend of mine became very unwell and I had to find a nursing home for her. Due to the dedication of the staff, my friend had another 18 months and I was able to take her out after being house bound for many years.
I felt that I wanted to do a job that made a difference and became a carer. I went back to school and redone my GCSE,s and then went onto do my level 3 diploma and am always enhancing my skills and knowledge. I came to Mortain Place as a senior carer on Normandy Gardens and worked my way up to Community Lead. I have chosen to move to the activities team to help support the life enrichment programme and help improve the life experience’s of our residents.
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 Mortain Place Care Home
Sing along with us!
We are lucky enough to have Julie visit us on a regular basis at Mortain Place. She is great at including all of our residents in her sing alongs. The nostalgic lyrics bring back memories for them and they love getting involved.
As always, she spent time speaking with our residents and their families before and after her performance, and we can't wait to see her again.
We like to keep active!
Mortain Place have teamed up with Defiant Sports to break the bounds of age!
We have a fantastic relationship with the charity and the residents love it when they visit. They have recently played hockey, taken part in archery and even played tennis!
We believe it is extremely important to keep the mind young and keep the body moving we they think outside the box with our excellent life enrichment programme.
Mortain welcomes the CIRUCS!
Here at Mortain Place, we believe that age is just a number.
We were lucky enough to have a visit from Renato Pires with his Moonlight Dreams team from East Sussex School of Circus Arts
East Sussex School of Circus Arts, is based at Knockhatch and offers variety of training courses covering key circus performance skills, and a
BTEC Level 3 in Circus and Performing Arts.
The entertainers arrived in the home and taught our residents some circus tricks, including juggling with scarfs to plate spinning.
Our residents had a great time, and loved learning new things! We are excited to see them again and can't wait to have them back again to teach us some new tricks!
Christmas Time
We had a wonderful Christmas and we hope you did too! We had lots of delicious food, heartwarming gifts and made lots of happy memories!
We would also like to thank Girlguiding Eastbourne Division for the lovely handmade cards they made for our residents.
From our beautiful home, to yours, Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year to all x
Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
What a week we have had! It started with the very talented Terry Hobbs doing an art display, followed by The MasterPiece Studio bringing our Christmas baubles back for our Christmas trees!
Elf day brought Knockhatch Adventure Park and Seahaven FM 96.3 and 95.6 to judge our Christmas trees, which everyone has been working on, then Sing with Julie came to help us rehearse our carolling and brought us a Christmas jumper for our pet dog.
Eastbourne girl guides came in for carols and poetry.
Christmas jumper day started with Petpals bringing in a goat called Rolo and then we were treated to Steve Dunnet, singing some of the swing classics.
Friday brought us East Sussex Hearing signing carols followed by Tilsmore entertaining our residents with a Christmas concert,
Rocky's brought their sweet shop and Kingsmere Community Assciation joined us for boys night!
And to finish the week off with the Community Champion Eastbourne Wheelie Big vehicle show!
Lads Night
It is important to us that all feel included in activities at Mortain Place, so we listened to our residents and the gentlemen agreed they wanted a boys night! These now take place every other Tuesday and have different themes. The gents have so far enjoyed beer tasting, a pool tournament, and a 'get to know me' chat.
If you wish to get involved please do give us a call. on 01323 465150.
