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.
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 Southerndown Care Home
Employee of the Month - October 2021
The residents and staff at Southerndown care home took time to applaud our Maintenance Assistant; Anderi Mereu for being nominated as ‘Employee of the Month’ for October 2021.
Anderi has gone above and beyond his role in support of the Southerndown team and our residents over the past month. We all felt Anderi really deserved extra recognition for the amazing work he does every day!
Our Home Manager, Rosalynn congratulated Anderi on the achievement, presenting him with a £25 voucher as a special THANK YOU. “I’m delighted to have such a multitasking and talented individual working as part of our team, I hope this award goes some way towards showing how much Anderi’s hard work is valued."
Anderi we all think you're a 'Southerndown Super Star! Enjoy the accolade and recognition.
Welcome to Southerndown - Beth
On a chilly autumn day there's nothing nicer than a hot drink! Our newly appointed Activities Coordinator; Beth is enjoying getting to know our residents and decided to make them all a super sized 'posh' hot chocolate whilst she sits and chats.
What a delicious way to say Hi!
Reminiscence and Rock n Roll
‘If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On’
We all know music is a wonderful way to lift spirits and can be so good for continued wellbeing. For those living with dementia, music can often promote good memories and a sing along. Our Team Leader and Dementia champion; John has just donated a vintage record player to our Blenheim Gardens residents and we can’t wait to get out the vinyl records and set that needle playing!
If any of our Facebook friends have some golden oldie vinyl’s gathering dust, we’d love to give them a spin, please email our activities team on Southerndown.Activities@barchester.com we’d be happy to collect.
We’re ready to Reminiscence and Rock n Roll.
Christmas-themed Floristry Masterclass
Our staff and residents were treated to an interactive virtual Christmas-themed floristry masterclass courtesy of Master Florist, Michal Kowalski, from Blooming Haus - Floral Engineers
Blooming Haus, is one of the UK’s most innovative floral design and artisan studios. With sustainability and seasonality at the core of their designs, the duo behind Blooming Haus - Michal Kowalski and his business partner, Michael Dariane, bring a completely fresh approach to floristry and their ambition to push the boundaries of traditional floristry has laid the foundations of Blooming Haus’ success to date.
Residents; Michael and Beryl joined our Home Manager; Rosalynn and Activities Coordinator Beth to watch the live stream. They all took so many notes to share with their fellow residents during our arts & crafts session later this week.
With the larger group we will be taking inspiration from the Blooming Haus team and combining Michael and Beryl's thoughts on how to create the best Christmas Wreath.
Blooming Haus' have invited all Barchester Residents to enter into a Facebook competition judged by Michal and Michael to win Love2Shop vouchers. We'll post our entry once complete for you all to see.
100 Handcrafted Remembrance Poppies
The staff and residents of Southerndown Care Home welcome you to join them in creating your own recycled remembrance poppy.
We’ve been busy cutting, shaping and painting varying sized plastic bottles to create our poppies. Please see our Facebook page for the instruction guide and photos courtesy of our resident ambassador Carol assisted by Stacey. https://www.facebook.com/BarchesterSoutherndown/
We plan to place our annual 100 handcrafted poppies to the front of our home in remembrance of the war fallen, and residents and friends that have passed away in the last 12 months.
Our residents would love to see your creations, whether you’ve followed our guidelines or created your own special poppies, please take a photo and send it to: Southerndown.activities@barchester.com
We’ll put your images on display, ready for our Remembrance Sunday for all to see. Thank you in advance for making our residents smile.
Employee of the Month - September 2021
Southerndown care home residents and colleagues wish to congratulate Subramanian on receiving Employee of the Month for September 2021.
Subramanian is one of our wonderful pre-registered nurses and has been a key member of the Barchester - Southerndown team since July 2021. He’s has been nominated by the residents and his colleagues for being a fantastic asset and for making everyone smile.
We all hope he enjoys his voucher and Barchester accolade, well done Subramanian you’re a star.
You have the opportunity to join the fantastic team here at Southerndown in Chipping Norton. We’re currently recruiting for a number of roles. Please follow the link to find out more and apply today.
https://jobs.barchester.com/job-search/?JobTitle=&City=OX7+5YF
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.
