Activities at South Chowdene Care Home
Our home is always full of life, and we can thank our wonderful Activities Coordinators for this. Dedication to creating a unique and interesting activities programme is what sets us apart from other homes. We always take into consideration that some people would prefer to pursue their own interests, which is why our team strive to incorporative activities that cater to a wide range of tastes and hobbies. Our trips out are always fun and exciting as well, and residents are guaranteed to return with stories to tell their loved ones!
Niki Powell
I arrange meaningful activities for all of our residents based on their likes and interests. I love sharing fun times with our residents, their families and with staff. I thoroughly enjoy chatting with residents about their hobbies/interests as well as reminiscing in small groups.
Our activities extend beyond the home with trips to places of interest, places residents have enjoyed throughout their lives eg. Seaside, parks, garden centers, as well as craft/ art workshops at libraries and general interest talks around the area.
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 South Chowdene Care Home
Valentines at South Chowdene
South Chowdene celebrated Valentine’s Day showing their love of animals – their own, those that visit us in the home as well as those we see when out and about on our travels. Residents picked their favourite pictures to put together with a few other crafty things we made with the help of our volunteer Jane. The highlight of Valentine’s Day was a visit from KL Pony therapy with Poppet who stole everyone's heart.
RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch
Staff and residents at South Chowdene got out their binoculars and bird books to support this year’s Big Garden Birdwatch initiative.
The RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch is an annual event to try to understand what is happening to our native birds. The idea is to log all the birds you see in your garden, from your window or in your local park in a one hour period any time between January 27th and 29th. In 2021 over 1 million people took part and between them they counted 17 million birds. Sadly we have lost over 38 million birds from the UK skies in the last 50 years so it is vital we do all we can to protect our birdlife.
National Chocolate Day
Staff and residents at Barchester’s South Chowdene care home care home in Low Fell had a fantastic time celebrating National Chocolate Cake Day on January 27th, surely one of the best days of the year! Overseen by head chef Lynn Parkin, staff and residents whipped up a selection of different chocolate cakes from chocolate cupcakes to chocolate trifle, to chocolate fudge cake.
Residents made Chocolate Mug Puddings at lunch time for themselves for pudding and very much enjoyed eating them. We then held at tea party compete with chocolate cakes (and other varieties) to celebrate Greta’s birthday with her very own hostess trolley and best china.
Home celebrate Chinese New Year
Staff and residents at South Chowdene Care Home in Low Fell welcomed in the Year of the Rabbit with a day of celebrations and activities. Inspired by Chinese culture and traditions, the home was decorated with hanging red lanterns and residents learnt all about the traditions and superstitions of Chinese New Year. Our hospitality team cooked up an oriental feast for lunch and residents enjoyed the delicious food washed down with pots of Chinese tea.
World religion and International flower day
We used these days to take the opportunity to learn about different religions and flowers. We had a look into different foods used to mark key celebrations and as imagery across the various religions of the world. Residents were quite amazed by some of the reasons for eating certain foods and had a great time tasting them.
For International Flower Day, our florist friend Sue made us a big bouquet and we found out about all the flowers in it and we put our memories to the test completing puzzles around the names of different flowers. The quiz really taught us all a lot about flowers from around the world. Every day is a schoolday!
Celebrating Elvis’s birthday
As a firm favourite at South Chowdene we couldn’t miss celebrating what would have been Elvis’s 88th birthday. We learned a fair few fun facts about the ‘King’ himself during the quiz and factfile and then, residents had a great time singing along to our Elvis tribute act and chatted about their memories related to songs and films.
Upcoming events
July
Hello July! We extend a warm invitation for you to join us throughout the month - all welcome.
Coffee Morning - last Tuesday of the month
We extend a warm invitation for families, friends and neighbours to join us at our monthly coffee morning, last Tuesday of the month from 10.30 am.
Could you be a Volunteer?
Do you have spare time? Could you make a difference to someone's day to day activities? We'd love to hear from you.
Take a break on us!
Calling all professionals - come and take a break on us! There may be a cake or two available...
