Activities at Southerndown Care Home
Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
Stacey Davies
I have worked at Southerndown since 2013. I enjoy providing various activities for our residents with the team, such as gardening groups, trips out in the mini bus around the Cotswolds, quiz days and entertainment performances. Amongst the many things we enjoy doing, part of my role within the home is to ensure all residents are provided the purpose in life to fulfil day to day stimulation, whether that be together, or creating individual activity to those that prefer.
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 Southerndown Care Home
A visit from Chipping Norton Fire Station.
Today we had a special visit from the Chipping Norton Fire Station.
The firefighters were amazing and they even brought the fire engine for us to have a look at. We talked about the amazing roles they play in our local community and we also talked about fire safety around the home. It was a really great visit and we all hope that they can come and visit us again soon.
International Day of Forests
With it being International Day of Forests we thought that we would make the most of the nice weather and take a walk around our beautiful grounds and head off into the forest. We really enjoyed the walk, we all found perfect sticks to hike with, and we really soaked up the atmosphere.
Pub Lunch
We decided to take a trip to the wonderful Plough Inn for nice pub lunch and a Guinness or two.
The weather was kind so we finished our drinks and desserts outside in the sunshine.
We had such a great time and we are looking forward to our next trip out on the mini bus.
Southerndown Baking Club
This week in baking club we were joined by our amazing carer Sasha, and our fantastic Care Practitioner Graeme and we were baking some simply delicious bread. It is easy when you know how and we are all a dab hand at bread making. We made the perfect loafs to accompany our soup for lunch. We have decided that nothing (almost) tastes better than freshly baked bread.
Flower Arranging Workshop
Here at Southerndown we are very lucky to have some keen florists in our midst, and we like to hold a flower arranging workshop to create floral decorations to display around the home.
Our flowers for this workshop are the classic pink and white carnations, which were a great choice by the ladies, and the floral decorations looked fantastic throughout the home.
Musical afternoon with King and Rackham
We recently had a wonderful afternoon of musical entertainment from the very talented duo King & Rackham.
The afternoon was a big hit with some of our fond favourites such as Bach and Beethoven, with some newer classical pieces mixed in.
Finishing of the afternoon of with of course - Nessun Dorma.
Upcoming events
Southerndown Christmas Performance
Join us on Monday 23rd December at 2pm for an exclusive Christmas Choir Performance lead by our residents of Southerndown Care Home.
Santa's Coming To Town
Join us on Christmas Eve for a final get together, with music and party food with the man himself ahead of the big day.
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.
