What types of care does Southerndown Care Home offer?

Southerndown Care Home offers Nursing care, Dementia care, Respite / Short stay.

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.

Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Cathy Wheeler

Activity Co-ordinator

I have been with the team at Southerndown since 2023

People ask me what I enjoy about my job and the answer is easy... 'the people'. Its the small things that make the difference every day, seeing people smile and seeing someone respond positively to interaction. We offer a great life enrichment programme at Southerndown and every day is different but enjoyable.

In my spare time I like to spend time in the garden, I enjoy sewing but mostly love spending time with my grandchildren

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

Visit our Facebook page to keep updated with all the activities in our home

Chippy Mop

Southerndown visited Chippy mop.

Our first stop was at the rifle range, which we were pot shots at! Then we tried our hand at hook a duck, next stop was the frogs – not as easy as it looked!

We had a lovely walk around the fair watching all of the rides, then we thought a cup of tea and cake at the local café would be to finish our day.

Then back home for a well earned rest.

Pub Lunch

Residents at Southerndown had a delightful outing as we visited one of our local pubs for a hearty lunch and a pint or two.

The food was delicious and we are already planning where we would like to visit for our next pub lunch.

A Visit to the Old Shed

We visited the Old Shed in Charlbury for one of our recent trips out. The weather was perfect, we spent time with the Shetland ponies and the donkeys.

We enjoyed the woodland walk, and we made good use of the exercise equipment.

To finish the morning we had a lovely cup of tea and some delicious cake before heading back home.

Southerndown Sports day 2023

Southerndown held their very own sports day at our home with all our family and friends were invited. This event was eagerly anticipated as we had been preparing by, walking more and practising some of the events before hand. The weather was perfect, we had a healthy snack buffet and plenty of hydration. Go Team Southerndown!!!!!

For our races the first one of the day was the egg and spoon race, which had been bringing back memories of our early childhood and participating in the egg and spoon races at school. It was a cracking success. Next up was the bean bag race, which was very competitive and never as easy as it seems Our next activity was the ring toss, (which we had been practising) this was a tricky mix of skill and luck And for the grand finale, which the crowd went wild was staff v staff tug of war – joined by residents and relatives which was a big success. After our races were finished, everyone received their medals and the visiting children received their goody bags . The day was a big success and we all had such a wonderful time, it was a huge talking point for the residents for many days after.