Activities at Ashlar House Care Home
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Rita Green
As the Community Engagement Lead and Lifestyle Coordinator, I will be spending time with each resident and their loved ones to build a detailed picture of each individual, so that each person’s stay with us is as meaningful as possible. Although I have been working within this field for many years, thanks to the uniqueness of each resident, I am always enjoying new experiences in my role. My goal is to create an activities programme that caters to the capabilities of residents, including, but not limited to, individual and group activity.
I've spent the past few years forging strong relationships within the community and developing a pool of talented individuals that can support our in-house team to bring out the best in those we care for.
As we never stop growing and changing, it is important that we maintain an up-to-date Getting To Know Me booklet. With your help, the activities scheduled for your loved ones will be as relevant and enjoyable as possible.
I’m very much looking forward to working with all of you.
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 Ashlar House Care Home
New Season
Leaves and temperatures changes, as autumn falls, new colours and smells gradually replace the heat and long days that was summer. Autumn means the beginning of something new and crisp and familiar, each experience were shared by our residents at Ashlar House.
There’s No Place like Home
Glinda the good witch granted four residents of Ashlar House their dream to come true.
With her magic wand and the tap of the red slippers she took them over the rainbow 🌈 to tell her story .
The residents thoroughly enjoyed the day with singing and laugher .
Then afterwards they went to McDonald’s for meal and visited Buckingham Palace where the new King and Queen resides.
The whole Day was wicked and they all came back home in Glinda’s magic bubble safe and sound singing songs from the show .
National Read a Book Day
Today we were very happy to celebrate National Read a Book Day, as we all share a passion for reading.
In recognition of the day, our residents spent the morning with our little friends from Bright Horizon Nursery talking about their favourite books, and took part in a variety of creative sessions.
In the afternoon residents relocated to the quite lounge reading their book some talk about their favourite authors and why.
We had a fantastic time.
The Doors of History has finally re-opened again from the Epping history museum.
The Doors of History has finally re-opened again from the Epping history museum after 3 Years being closed.
The sun was out if full and many visitors came from far including residents from Ashlar House who wanted to be part of the special day.
Reading about the history of the war seeing the uniforms and parts recovered from planes ✈️ that crashed or found afterwards in the ground.
Christmas gifts in tins including cigarettes 🚬 which were 100 years old.
Afterwards we had time to reflect over a hot cup of tea and snacks .
Our journey then took the residents to Epping Ongar railway station where we boarded the train which took us from north Weald to Epping then Epping to Ongar and home again the residents got to wave out the window to passers by as the train pulled away.
It was a great day out smiles all around.
Quiz Afternoon
Question 1
Who Held the best quiz night in Epping?
Answer is Ashlar House care home.
Friends, Family and Residents took part in the quiz to see who would take the number 1 spot and they all fought hard.
Fun, laughter nibbles and drinks were enjoyed by all.
So you’re wondering who came 1st, 2nd and 3rd?
Well I can tell you there was no losers as they were all winners.
A big shout out goes to our quiz master for the night Joe Wells and his stunning partner.
Celebrating National Rum Day
What do they say about rum drinkers? Well we are headstrong, warm and friendly and vibrant, this description matches us at Ashlar House.
So what a fantastic way to start our weekend with Ashlar House residents and families celebrating
National Rum Day, presented with different cocktails served with Rum and fresh fruit, tasters were available to place an order accompanied with Live Entertainment with clarinet and saxophone.
This got the residents - carers and family’s up and dancing leaving us feeling hot hot hot.
