Activities at The Cedars Bourne Care Home
Our activities team are great at building the activities programme around the likes and interests of the people we care for. Ensuring that our social events offer fun and adventure is part of the ethos of our home; it’s important that those we support can enjoy an active and social lifestyle. Of course, there will always be those who prefer peace and quiet, and in these instances, a cup of tea and a chat are always welcomed.
Helen Hudson
Hello. I’m Helen, the Activities Coordinator at The Cedars. I joined the team in 2021 and I have lots of skills that I can use to create an interesting and varied programme of activities, events and celebrations for residents to enjoy. I am a qualified holistic therapist and offer an holistic approach to activities in the home, I love creating new activities that our residents enjoy, taking residents out on day trips and promoting wellbeing through lots of different activities. When I am not at work I love playing my clarinet, crocheting and art - I use all of these in my role.
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 The Cedars Bourne Care Home
Welcome Back!
Residents are happy to be able to see their friends and loved ones again in the garden. No matter the weather, it won’t stop our residents being able to have quality time with family. It’s a joy to see big smiles and laughter fill the air.
Always remember, if you would like to come and see your loved ones, don’t hesitate to ring us here at The Cedars to get booked in.
Oomph!
Residents recently enjoyed choosing a selection of CDs to play for Oomph in the afternoon. The ladies took the lead and chose a movement each to their song choice.
We encourage keeping our bodies active to improve and maintain resident mobility so they are able to do more for themselves—motivation is key!
Chocolate & Wine Afternoon
Residents at The Cedars recently enjoyed wine and chocolate tasting, seeing which wine goes best with which chocolate. They are happy to be involved in a sensory activities; one lady asked if we could make this a regular activity every fortnight. Residents enjoy making friendly connections with other residents over a glass of wine to share stories and to reminisce.
VE Day Celebrations
Residents at the Cedars care home, in Bourne recently enjoyed a very own street party set up in the home down Rowan and Maple’s corridor with banners, posters, streamers and balloons filling the corridor with red, white and blue. Our kitchen chef made sandwiches, Victoria sponge cake, coconut tarts, sausage rolls and Bakewell tart for a tasty treat that our residents can enjoy.
Residents at the home are happy to be able to celebrate VE Day and loved hearing wartime songs playing down the corridor, it meant such a lot as visitors are currently not able to visit the home at this time.
Becky, General Manager at the Cedars Care Home said: “In these unprecedented times, ensuring residents feel engaged and connected within our local community is more important than ever. Our residents spirits have raised being able to celebrate and have our own street party in the home. We provide a wide range of physical, mental and spiritual activities at the Cedars as part of the life enrichment programme for residents, and this one was very popular! We have also adapted ways to keep residents active, whilst ensuring that the group activities are smaller, adhering to social distancing advice.”
Residents Are Getting Active
Residents at the Cedars care home, in Bourne recently enjoyed getting active taking part in penalty shootout football game to get their legs moving and to stay as active as we can during this unfortunate time.
Our residents enjoy being active to take their minds off what is happening in the world, it can be very upsetting and we want to keep them occupied and focused on more fun activities and getting as many involved as we can.
Being active has kept us laughing and smiling bringing happy moral into the home.
Keeping Busy
Dorothy is one of our residents in the Cedars in Bourne, who really enjoys keeping her brain active, she has been doing embroidery designs.
When doing the designs she will use her own imagination to choose the colours and use her own flare of stitching patterns to create it making the design a one of a kind. This is her latest work in progress so far.
Upcoming events
Book Swap - Sat 23rd Nov
Do you love reading? Have you got surplus books and would like to swap? Join us at our Book Swap from 10.30 am
Bubbles and Baubles - Fri 29th Nov
Join us as we start our festive celebrations - Bubbles & Baubles - from 2.00 pm
Countdown to Christmas
Counting down to Christmas with a fun filled month ahead and we extend a warm invitation for you to join us - all welcome.
Photography Competition
Join in the fun and take part in our photography competiton.
Newsletter - october
Find out about the latest news and goings on from in and around the home, in our Autumn Newsletter - October edition.
Could you be a Volunteer?
We recognise the impact a Volunteer can make on the lives of our residents, do you have any spare time? For more information we'd love to hear from you.
Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
We extend a warm invitation to professionals in our local community to join us each week and take a break on us.
Looking for a place to host a meeting?
For more information why not pop in and see what Cedars Bourne can offer you.
Coffee Morning
Come and enjoy a morning of good company, refreshments and a slice of home made cake.
Don't Dine Alone - Every Monday
We know meal times can be lonely for older members of our community and we extend a warm invitation for them to join us for lunch - ** places are limited