Parley PlaceBarchester Healthcare

Activities at Parley Place Care Home

Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.

We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.

Read our brochure ‘Life-enriching activities’ for more information about life in our care homes.

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Celebrating life at Parley Place Care Home

Wimborne Model Town - Teddy Trip

This week we celebrated National Teddy Bear day with a special trip for June to see the Teddy's at Wimborne Model Town

June has had her teddy with her since she was a child and she is now in her 90's, she has a photo of her as a child with her bear so this really was a special trip for June. Her love of teddy bears and listening to stories of what her teddy has seen over the years was heart warming.

June took some friends from the home with her and they had a lovely look around the displays and saw the Wareham bears which was a real highlight for June.

We enjoyed some wonderful refreshments from James' Tearooms at Wimborne Model Town - proper tea from proper tea pots!

June had a wonderful day and thank you to everyone Wimborne Model Town for making this a special trip.

Bourne 2 Sing Choir

We had a fabulous time at the Bourne2Sing charity concert on Saturday afternoon supporting Ferndown dementia friendly town and Plants and Minds Events and Fundraising

Over 60 people enjoyed a concert at St. Mark's & All Saints' Churches, West Parley by these amazing singers including an operatic solo which was outstanding.

During the interval everyone enjoyed a cream tea with Scones from our chef's here at Parley place, jam sponsored by Tiptree and clotted cream sponsored by Rodda’s Cornish Clotted Cream

Teas and coffees were served by some wonderful volunteers who helped with the set up and clear up as well.

A huge thank you to everyone who came along on the day and also to the amazing volunteers who gave up their time to help the charity event - the total raised was over £800 split between the 2 very worthy and local charities.

Emergency Services Day

We celebrated Emergency Services Day today with a great visit from our lovely fire service. Darren and his crew came down and joined us for a coffee and chat before we went outside and had a fascinating talk on all the different equipment in the fire engine.

A huge thank you to Darren and the team at Christchurch Fire Station, we hope you enjoy your hamper of goodies and thank you for everything you do for our community.

High tea Garden Party and Dog Show

All the fun from our High Tea Garden Party that moved to a High Tea Indoor Party!

The weather didn't dampen the spirits and good fun was had by all.

We had a poshest dog show - entertainment from Scott Free and Daisy Lapworth.

Stalls, Raffle and of course a lovely afternoon tea!

Gardening Club

Gardening Club takes place every week on Wednesday mornings and there is always plenty to do in the garden to help keep it looking its best!

Mini Bus Trips

We have enjoyed some lovely mini bus trips lately courtesy of Steve our volunteer driver and Sharon.

Destinations including Parley Manor, Christchurch Quay, Hamworthy Park and many more!

Birthday wishes

A huge Happy Birthday to our lovely Care Community Lead, Sharon for her birthday tomorrow - we aren't saying how old but think the cake might give it away!

We all joined together in the café to treat Sharon to us all singing Happy Birthday to her which she really enjoyed!

Our lovely 2nd chef makes the majority of birthday cakes for our home so we couldn't ask her to make her own so we improvised with a doughnut tower!

Happy birthday Hayley from your Parley place family!

Games Afternoon

We had a fabulous games afternoon. Enjoying coffee, cakes, ice cream and great conversation with each other and it was lovely to see our wonderful volunteer, Steve back into the home, we have missed you Steve and are very happy to see you again.

Duck Race

We had a fun day today supporting 2 local charities at their Duck Race.

Well done to Plants and Minds Events and Fundraising and Macmillan Caring Locally for organising such a fun event.

Some of our residents attended and released the ducks at the start of the race. Cheering the ducks on as they went down the stream and congratulating the winners.

We also took a stroll to the beach and had a paddle ( for those who wanted to!) in the stream.

Jewel Harmony Entertains

We had a fabulous Saturday afternoon in the garden listening to wonderful music from Jewel Harmony.

We set up so we were all ok the shade with still plenty of room for a dance or

A day at the Farm

We had a fabulous trip to High Mead Farm with our residents last week, we looked around the farm and saw all the animals, the goats were a clear favourite.

The staff at the farm couldn't be more helpful and we really enjoyed talking to them about the amazing work that goes on there.

Car and Bike Show

Our fabulous car and bike show this weekend featuring Grumpy Grandads Dorset, Top Hat Riders Events, and plenty of enthusiasts with their cars and stories to tell.

We enjoyed coffee from Rose gold coffee van, ice creams, BBQ all alongside wonderful entertainment from Scott Free aka Swinging Sinatra.

There was a tombola raising money for Macmillan Caring Locally by one of the classic car enthusiast.

It was a fabulous afternoon - we hope you like our video and look forward to this being an annual event.

Fun on the Water!

We had a fabulous time for our first boat trip of the year this week, glorious weather, calm sea's and great company. Our huge thanks to the Friends of Dolphin III boat and to all the volunteers who made our trip so special.

We had a lovely time, some residents captained the boat and we also saw the Nao Santa Maria on Poole Quay - a full scale replica of the ship Christopher Columbus sailed in on his first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492 - it was such a beautiful site.

World Cider Day 2025

We celebrated World Cider day with a trip to the pub for some cider tasting. We tried some different flavours and enjoyed the lovely Pub atmosphere.

Thank you to the team from The Curlew for making our residents welcome and helping us celebrate this day! We hope to come across again soon - National Gin day is coming up later this month......

World Cocktail day!

We marked this with a lovely selection of cocktails whilst enjoying the sunshine in the garden.

Most residents opted for the Non-alcoholic fruit cocktail which Brian made. All served in a lovely cocktail glass with a sugar rim and a cherry! A perfect way to mark the day!

What's your favourite cocktail?

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