Activities at Ashby House Care Home
Activities at Ashby House
Our Activities Coordinators are constantly striving to enrich peoples lives here at Ashby House. We stimulate people both physically and mentally by organising fun filled, group and individual activities to promote the well-being of those we support.
There are regular outings in our very own minibus and visits from PAT dog therapists, church services, musicians, dancers, and local school children. We also have our very own 'Good Life' gardening club, where we grow our own produce, which we then use in our cooking club. We also host weekly bingo sessions which are proving very popular and are growing in numbers.
Charlotte Arbon
I joined Ashby House in April 2022, I thoroughly enjoy my role as Activities coordinator and love coming to work and having chats with the residents and families.
I listen to the residents and learn about their interest and support them to be involved with activities. When I am not at work not at work I love spending time with my family playing board games.
We would love to have new ideas, if you have a skill you would like to share or would like to be involved with activities please email us at ashbyhouse.activities@barchester.com
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 Ashby House Care Home
Volunteers to our home
We had Volunteers from Action 4 Youth charity that covers Milton Keynes offering children the opportunity to go on residential trips, do volunteering in their local community and help with fundraising events. The volunteers were aged 14-16yrs and they all really enjoyed helping out around our home. They looked after our garden areas, made some personalised memory boxes for our residents. They did some fundraising a few days later and very kindly bought our residents some care packs from the money that they raised.
Beach Day
This week we had a Beach themed party in our Sensory Garden. Residents and their friends and families enjoyed being able to get back into the garden areas after the heatwave at the start of the week and spending quality time together in the sunshine. We had great fun with hook a duck game, sand castles, a traditional seaside photo cut out, inflatables and silly fun sunglasses, a bucket and ball game, along with ice creams, candy floss and refreshing cool drinks.
Barchester Commonwealth Games Baton
This week some staff and resident's from Ashby House proudly took The Barchester Commonwealth Baton on its final journey to our sister home Cubbington Mill. Victor handed over the Baton to John Farrington from Cubbington Mill. John, aged 109, now has the honour of transferring the Official Commonwealth Games Baton on its 10 day final relay Countdown as it passes through Kenilworth to its final destination in Birmingham where the 2022 Commonwealth games are being held.
National Beer Day
We celebrated National Beer Day outside in the sunshine in our lovely Courtyard Garden with a selection of Beers from around the world for our residents to try and enjoy. Our residents really enjoyed socializing with one another and sampling some of the different beers.
Carers Week
We showed how much we appreciated all that our wonderful Carers at Ashby House do for our resident’s, we had daily treats from our kitchen, also ‘Thank You’ cards and chocolates sent to our home from our Head Offices.
Jubilee Celebrations
We had some lovely events around our home over the Jubilee Weekend. We had a Jubilee Tree Planting Ceremony with Local Councillors attending and helping us plant our 2 new Plum trees in our Sensory Garden. We also enjoyed a Garden Party with live entertainment and a wonderful buffet for all to enjoy.
Upcoming events
Dementia Cafe
Join us for our dementia cafe, enjoy cakes, refreshments, activities & a warm welcome. Family / carers come along too, make new friends in a safe space.
