Activities at Cepen Lodge Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
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.
Anita Williams
Hello. my name is Anita, I have worked at Cepen Lodge for 5 years, I started as a Senior Care Assistant and now I am the Activities Coordinator which I really enjoy, I love the interaction with our residents and making their days enjoyable. I am always thinking of new activities and events, and ways to engage with our local community for our residents benefit. Cepen Lodge is a great team that I am proud to be a part of.
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 Cepen Lodge Care Home
Pamper sessions and still life
Here at Cepen Lodge it is all about mind, body and soul. We often hold pamper sessions in our in-house salon, where the residents can enjoy foot spas, facials, manicures and hair treatments.
We regularly use our activities room for small group activities such as arts and crafts. We recently held a still life activity session with residents, this time drawing a potted fern plant.
Barchester hydration week
As part of Barchester’s hydration week, our residents enjoyed an activity with one of our chefs, Mark, where they learnt about the importance of keeping hydrated through food and drink.
, they enjoyed making a refreshing fruit salad, enjoying the fruits of their labour afterwards!
Dementia Disco
We hosted our first Dementia friendly disco. Special thanks to Carly for providing the disco. Both staff and residents had a fantastic time dancing to hits from the 70’s, 80’s while re-living the golden age of disco with glowsticks and legwarmers.
We hope for this to become a regular event here at Cepen Lodge, with everyone welcome.
Mini bus trip to Weston-Super-Mare
We took a few of our residents for a trip out on the minibus to one of our nearest seaside towns. It was a typically British day to visit the seaside!
Nonetheless, it did not deter our intrepid residents from enjoying ice creams on the front.
Avebury to Stonehenge hike
To round off a busy month at Cepen, Jade and some of her team completed the Avebury to Stonehenge hike. Raising money for Alzheimer’s Support – the local Dementia support group here in Wiltshire. The team accomplished an astounding 27 miles through challenging terrain, battling nature (wind, rain and occasional sun.)
A special thank you to our support driver and motivator Kevin, who regularly gives up his Saturdays to ferry us around. We couldn’t continue to come up with mad fundraising ideas without him. Along with our sense of pride, there are many aching joints and a few blisters to say the least.
Well done to everyone involved!
Dog Show
We had a great day today at our annual dog show raising money for Dogs Trust.
A huge thank you to everyone who came and entered their dog into our classes. Our residents had a lovely time meeting everyone and, as always, we had a great turn out (and weather!).
