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
Green Fingers
We have all been taking part in our very own Chelsea Flower Show. Residents have enjoyed planting new bulbs and doing some good old fashioned weeding! We were kindly sent some lovely tomato plants from St Mary's Church, Chipping Norton. Residents have enjoyed tending to them and can’t wait to see them growing!
Arts & Crafts
Residents enjoyed collecting wood from the gardens in the sunshine to create some impressive art to display on our walls. It was a great team effort from all residents, and they enjoyed seeing the finished product.
VE Day Preparations
Residents have been busy making a Union Jack collage in the run up to VE Day. We all enjoyed cutting out all the pictures and sticking them on. We are currently deciding a place to display it proudly in our home.
Robotic Pet Therapy
Residents and staff have been busy looking after our new robotic cat! Residents have loved visits from our new pet!
We are currently thinking of a name for our new tabby. He rolls over, meows and even purrs! He has been a great new addition to our home and we are looking forward to deciding on a name for him.
Letters from the Community
Every morning we receive kind letters, pictures, postcards or presents from lots of wonderful people from our local community.
Residents really enjoy spending time in the mornings reading and replying to their “fan mail” it really is amazing to have so many people write to us and share with us what they have been doing and ways they have been keeping busy.
Also we would like to say a thank you to the children at Great Tew Primary School, who made us some amazing card and sent us lots of beautiful bunches of daffodils.
Everything Will Be Fine Rainbow
Residents and staff at Southerndown have been keeping busy with arts and crafts and making an everything will be fine rainbow. This was a fun activity- everybody helped weather it was cutting out the hearts or placing the rainbow on the window.
We are very pleased with the finished result, and it can be seen from the road and we are hoping that it will make people smile as they drive by.
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.
