Activities at Kenwyn Care Home

Our collaboration with BT continues with their Community Companion Initiative. Every week, one of BT's trained volunteers gives one of our residents a call, giving them the opportunity to chat about anything that they'd like. This is a welcomed opportunity for our residents to make a new friend, talk about life and memories, and share opinions and common interests.

Last week our beloved resident, Gerry, had a lovely chat with Ben. They spoke of Gerry's past career with the Yorkshire Post, and their joint love of trips to the beach.

What a beautiful initiative and lovely to see. Thank you to BT and their volunteers for creating relationships with our residents.

Our residents recently rolled up their sleeves and got their hands dirty in a delightful gardening activity! Gardening isn't just about planting flowers... it's about nurturing growth, fostering connections, and finding joy in the simple pleasures of life.

By tending to these vibrant flowers, which are now placed outside their bedroom windows to admire, our residents not only create a stunning display but also reap the therapeutic benefits of gardening. Gardening helps to reduce stress, promotes physical activity, and fosters a sense of accomplishment. Well done to our residents for their beautiful additions to our colourful gardens.

The decades stretch between Kenwyn’s residents and the children, but that doesn’t stop the special moments we are seeing time and again during each visit.

Thank you once more to the whole group for visiting us this week and creating special memories.

Bits & Bobs Playgroup Mid Cornwall, we welcome you with open arms.

At Kenwyn, it's important for us to foster the love of creativity and writing, and that's why our Poetry Club is a much loved gathering among our residents. We meet regularly to read and discuss various poems together, which is a wonderful opportunity to get the creative, imaginative, thoughtful, and social juices flowing.

In this week's group, one of our beloved residents, Alan, even shared some of his own poems, reading a few of his personal writings for everyone to admire. He enjoyed sharing the meaning behind them and his creative process saying, "Being creative and the process of art is not something that can be forced. For me, it's a feeling and it comes from the inside. It's meaningful."

We had the absolute pleasure of hosting the incredibly talented Derek Valenti, our beloved saxophonist, for another unforgettable performance! Derek's tunes never fail to captivate our residents, and today was no exception. Once he starts playing, the room is filled with an atmosphere of magic as we're transported to the world of music and memories.

Did you know? The saxophone is the only instrument in wide use today that was invented by a single individual — a musical instrument designer named Adolphe Sax, hence the name saxophone. It truly is a versatile and iconic instrument and I'm sure everyone can agree that it never fails to leave a lasting impression.

Thank you, Derek, for sharing your incredible talent with us once again!

There are benefits to great communication for everyone, but especially within elderly communities. Good communication can promote companionship, which is essential for emotional well-being.

On a daily basis we engage Kenwyn’s residents in life enriching activities and by communicating effectively we enjoy seeing the benefits.

For a number of months now, we have enjoyed a hugely successful partnership with BT and their fabulous initiative ‘Community Companion.’

Each week a volunteer from BT calls one of Kenwyn’s residents for a good old natter.

It has been so successful we increased the frequency of calls to once a week.

This week, volunteer Debbie from BT called Kenwyn’s resident Jill and they chatted happily for over 40 minutes and the results were heart warming.

Thank you BT!