What types of care does Hickathrift House Care Home offer?

Hickathrift House Care Home offers Residential care, Dementia care, Respite / Short stay.

Activities at Hickathrift House Care Home

We have two Activities Coordinators here at Hickathrift House. We have a wide range of activities within the home, including musical entertainment, arts & crafts, clubs for like-minded people, such as flower arranging and gardening, board games, baking (where the best bit is the eating afterwards!), and we celebrate special events throughout the year. We also have trips out on a regular basis using our own minibus, where we find out places of interest each person would like to visit.

It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these activities as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join in with activities and events as often as they can.

For the less mobile residents, we unique one-to-one session, such as simple chats over a cup of tea, reading or listening to music. Activities are some of the most important aspects of a care home, so it is essential that our team are dedicated to ensuring that residents are entertained, and that life at Hickathrift House is fun and active.

Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Kat Colangelo

Activities Lead

Hello, my name is Kat and I am the Activities Lead here at Hickathrift House.

Since 2017 I have been working in the field of well-being and I am passionate and enthusiastic about enriching all our of residents' quality of life.

As the Activities Lead at Hickathrift House, my focus is learning about each of our resident's likes and dislikes and supporting them to remain receptive and active in addition to supporting them to engage with our local community friends.

I organise activities to stimulate the mind, body and soul in an enjoyable, comfortable way. My aim is to diversify and increase activities ensuring that there is something for everyone - from Wine and Cheese events, excursions on our home Mini Bus as well as individual bespoke person-centered activities.

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 Hickathrift House Care Home

Banjo Man performs for us

We had the absolute pleasure of having Sean perform for us last week. He had everyone clapping and singing along to wonderful songs while he sang and played his fabulous instruments. He also shared fabulous stories and told us all about his Banjo too!

St James's Methodist Church Coffee Morning

Residents were welcomed with open arms at the Coffee & Chat Morning at St James Methodist Church.

Our residents loved learning about the history of the Church and looking at the handmade decorations too! It was a real pleasure to chat and meet everyone and several of our residents met old faces from the village and local Church groups that they used to attend themselves.

Farmers Market & Craft Fair outing

Our residents had an incredible time at Marshland Hall & Tearoom Farmers Market & Craft Fair.

It was a pleasure to see all the local stallholders and chat about their crafts in addition to meeting several of our community friends for a great catch-up too!

Village Scarecrow Trail and Pumpkin fun!

Residents and staff came together to build our fantastic Scarecrow and Pumpkin display for the upcoming Village Scarecrow and Pumpkin trail.

Everyone brainstormed on what display to make and eventually titled it "Hickathrift House Family" complete with 3 new 'residents' and 1 'staff' member and plenty of beautifully decorated Pumpkins with happy faces for all of our community friends to enjoy!

A little visitor comes to say hello!

There is something about having children visit our home which makes residents smile and sparks fond memories of parenthood and family.

Intergenerational activities are so important for both generations and we hope we will be seeing even more little ones visit us here at Hickathrift House again soon!

Gentlemen's Club Pub Trip

This month's Gentlemen Club headed to a local pub for a pint and chit-chat. We were ever so thrilled to invite 3 gentlemen who were staying with us for respite stays to join our growing Hickathrift House Gentlemen's Club!

With the growing interest in our Gentlemen's Club - we will now be organising a monthly pub outing separate from our community Gentlemen's Club, as requested by residents of Hickathrift House. We hope you'll be able to join us in the future!