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

Knitting for local Rescue Dogs at Willowdale Farm

We've been busy knitting away making an array of Blankets for rescue Dogs at Willowdale Farm in Marshland St James.

Our lovely group of ladies are residents, community knitters and volunteers of Hickathrift House who have come together to make squares which are then knitted into these beautiful Blankets.

Betty has really enjoyed sharing her passion with others and knits squares every day in the lounge!

Our next project is knitting Blankets for the homeless, keep an eye out on our page for upcoming Knitting Groups for you to join!

Community Crafty Ladies Group

Every month our residents visit the local Crafty Ladies Group at the Marshland Hall & Tearoom for a good natter and a spot of Knitting. Our avid knitters have been visiting the group regularly since March and formed lovely friendships with the local ladies who have even made our residents bags to keep their Knitting and Slippers!

We all enjoy seeing their different knitted projects and share our own. Of course, we always enjoy some of the Tearoom's fabulous baked treats and cups of Tea too! If you're interested in joining the group please contact the Marshland Hall & Tearoom.

Outings to the local community are very important to our residents here as they help build friendships and opportunities to reminisce and share experiences and interests with others. Here at Hickathrift House, we arrange a minimum of 5 outings a month to suit all residents' interests which everyone thoroughly enjoys as you can see!

National Afternoon Tea Week

Afternoon Tea Week is the perfect opportunity to take part in a range of activities that celebrate this quintessentially English tradition - to meet people, chat, laugh, be creative and eat a lot of Cake - all washed down with lashings of delicious Tea served in a fine China Cup of course!

At Hickathrift House we've been busy making unique floral placemats, beautiful flower table centrepieces and vibrant floral bunting which created the perfect backdrop for our afternoon Tea Trolley. Residents enjoyed an assortment of delicious Scones, treats and the beautiful China sets brought back lots of fond memories and discussions.

Crafty Ladies Group

We headed to the wonderful Marshland Hall & Tearoom to meet the community knitters and crafters. This outing has become a regular for us at Hickathrift House as we've made good friendships with the ladies there. We enjoy sharing the items we've knitted and vis versa. Of course we just have to have a cup of tea and delicious treat while we're there.

Monthly Community Book Club

We visited the wonderful Marshland Hall & Tearoom for a spot of tea and the monthly WI Book Club! We all had a fantastic time reminiscing about books we read as a child and comparing them to today's books. The cakes and teas were delicious and we all enjoyed chatting away with the friendly staff. We visit the book club monthly and really enjoy meeting the locals.

Cinema Trip

What a fabulous time we had on Monday visiting the pictures to watch Mamma Mia! Residents were bobbing away and singing along throughout the film. At Hickathrift House we plan an array of outings suggested by residents and their loved ones.