Activities at Kernow House Care Home
Our Activities Coordinators organise varied and regular events. The activities that take place depend on what our residents tell us they are interested in and the feedback we get from their families. We currently have pop-up cafes where we socialise and maybe visit the hairdresser. We have regular live music events, a storyteller and visits from animals and we are often joined by families or friends during our social activities where they are always most welcome.
Living in Cornwall the surrounding countryside offers many beauty spots and we often have trips out to wherever our residents would like to go. At other times a walk to nearby shops or cafes is what we enjoy.
Louise is our hairdresser and she is with us twice a week. Louise also supports us during our weekly Namaste sessions where she offers hand massages in a relaxing environment. Every Thursday afternoon we have a time of worship supported by our local community. Our ice cream van, Kernow Kones, and our mobile pub, Kernow Keg, also make a weekly appearance. We have monthly clubs, when we play bingo or watch a film in our pop-up cinema. Residents on all units are invited to take part in a monthly Resident’s Meeting and they tell us what they would like.
Apart from these regular events, we also celebrate special occasions and often have musical entertainers to visit but we also make our own fun. All staff take part in fancy dress or charity events that we support and often what we do evolves through interaction between residents and care or activity staff. All this makes Kernow House a vibrant place to be where things happen both as group activities as well as on an individual level.
Bea Porup
Bea has many years of experience working in elderly care and both experience and training in dementia care. She has also worked extensively with people with Huntington's disease. Bea works closely with Sue, Jackie and our management team, nurses, carers and kitchen team to ensure our home has a vibrant environment with lots of events happening and varied opportunities for having both new and familiar experiences, making sure the people living here lead a rich and fulfilling life.
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 Kernow House Care Home
The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning
We do not need an excuse for eating cake at Kernow House so when we get an opportunity to raise money whilst eating cake, we do so happily! J Cakes were donated, bought and eaten with great pleasure and we also had a raffle at the charity coffee morning with proceeds going to MacMillan.
Prior to the event we had our ever popular 50 pence sale and all together we raised £190.85. A huge thank you to everyone who supported our Big Coffee Morning.
A Boy Named Glenn
Glenn Johnson, who plays guitar and sings country and western music, came to entertain us. We sang along and had a dance. He is one of several musical entertainers, who visits us regularly and, between them, we have a varied range of live music delivered to all the units at Kernow.
Indoor Gardening
We are enjoying a lovely summer. Many residents and their families enjoy sitting outdoors in our gardens, but for some people it is difficult to get outside, so we have made an indoor garden. It is in a wheelbarrow that we can take around the home, and it both looks and smells wonderful. On this occasion it brought a little joy and pleasure to someone in their bed.
A Trip Down Memory Lane
We took a trip to Dingles Fairground Heritage Centre with some residents, and it was a real trip down memory lane. As one resident said: "It’s exactly like it was when I was a child’. It’s lovely to be able to have experiences like this. The trip to Dingles was a great success, so we will definitely do it again.
Our Divisional Winner
Well done to Daniel Hill, who was named as a Divisional Winner in the 'Learner of the Year' category for the 2019 Barchester Care Awards.
Summer Garden Opening
We combined Care Home Open Day with a Summer Fair, and invited our mayor, Dave Gordon to open our new sensory garden. He gave a speech and cut a ribbon, so now the garden is open for everyone to enjoy.
We had a lovely day in our carpark where we had a BBQ, cream teas, Kernow kones, stalls and games, raising money for The Sowenna Appeal, which was our chosen charity. Gareth Hedges came to play live music for us. We raised £411.72. A big thank you to everyone who supported our event.
