Activities at Cubbington Mill Care Home
Every day we run different activities throughout our home. The activities are designed and adapted to each individuals personal needs. The activities are designed to mentally and physically stimulate the people we care for and also to enhance their life skills and feelings of purpose and self-worth. The activities encourage interaction on a one to one basis, in small groups, in large groups and some are designed for the whole home including staff to be involved in.
We are registered with the National Activity Providers Association (NAPA) which ensures we are able to achieve and continually progress to enhance the quality of life for those we support in the home. We provide entertainers such as singers, musicians, magicians, puppeteers, poets and dancers. We also have regular exercise classes and arts and craft classes. Relatives and visitors will be able to see what me make in these classes on display around the home. We have regular trips out on the mini bus to visit garden centres, enjoy high tea, visit the butterfly farm and spend the day at the zoo with a picnic. We encourage the local community, schools, colleges and relatives to come and join us for activities, tea and cake and to visit to share their skills as much as possible.
Staff from across the home are always willing to help and share their knowledge and skills across a whole range of activities we have had everything from carers preforming Bollywood style dancing to cooking classes from the chef. We feel activities are a vital part of the residents lives to ensure they are stimulated mentally and entertained.
Rose Tucker
Hi my name is Rose and I am the activities coordinator at Cubbington Mill!
I have been working in care since I was 17 and very passionate about my role, always trying to do bigger & better. I am one of Cubbington Mills Dementia Champions. I'm very privileged to work with the wonderful people and residents at Barchester's Cubbington Mill and hope we all make some lovely memories together! I LOVE to find out about residents interests & hobbies through tools like the “Getting To Know Me Booklets”.
We are always open to new ideas. If you would like to get involved in any of our Life Enrichment activities or have a skill, or project you'd like to share with our residents, please click here to contact me direct. New entertainers and community links are always welcome.
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 Cubbington Mill Care Home
Cinema Afternoon
After a busy Christmas period the residents decided they would like to have a cinema afternoon for New Year's Day. There were plenty of refreshments, and everybody settled in for an afternoon of Mama Mia, singing along to the ABBA songs and talking about past experiences at the flicks.
Christmas Jumper Day
We had a great day Christmas Jumper Day here at Cubbington Mill, with lots of staff and residents wearing their favourite Christmas Jumpers for the day to raise money for Save for Children.
Colouring Competition
Cubbington School children came to visit and entered into our Children in Need Colouring Competition. Residents and children had fun chatting and colouring with some friendly competitive banter. They were able to discuss what Children in Need meant to them and how they were able to help children in the local area.
Celebrating Success
We had a fun-filled award ceremony for our staff at Cubbington Mill. We were happy to award Jagdish, one of our Night Nurses her 15 year Long Service Award; and Dorothy, who is one of our Senior Carers, her 10 year award.
Well done!
Gentlemen's Club
We tried out our first Gentlemen’s Club at Cubbington Mill. We were joined by Waldemar, our onsite maintenance man. Beer tasting was on the cards this session, with ginger beer, IPA and Stella being the beverages of choice.
Great fun was had chatting about the tastes but also about memories from yesteryear. It was a very insightful afternoon and we are looking forward to our next gathering.
Flower Arranging
We had a go at flower arranging recently. The residents requested flowers in pink, purple and coral. We chatted about the beautiful garden at Cubbington Mill and created our own flower arrangements to display around the home for other residents and visitors to see. We worked so hard, so treated ourselves to choc ices and ice lollies to round off the day.
