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Kings Park Care Home offers Residential care, Dementia care, Respite / Short stay.

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Activities at Kings Park Care Home

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.

Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Claudia Canosa

Activities Lead

Claudia moved to the UK from her native South Africa with her family some 6 years ago, although her family are of Italian decent.

With a caring nature, Claudia worked for a domiciliary care company helping in people in the community before eventually working in a care home environment, working up to the role of Senior Carer.

Realising how much she enjoyed making the residents smile, Claudia has now stepped into the role of Activities Lead here at Kings Park and very much loves the interaction with our residents, who have all taken a real shine to her.

Claudia can regularly be seen with our residents in a very creative capacity, enjoying flower arranging or leading everyone in a game of good old fashioned Bingo!

When at home, Claudia is a mother to two boys and a girl and also a pet mum to the the gorgeous, Molly - a Jack Russell cross.

She loves nothing more than curling up on the sofa in front of a good rom/com, with: The Holiday, The Lakehouse and The Notebook as some of her favourites to date.

We are so happy to have her as part of the Kings Park team.

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 Kings Park Care Home

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Read All About It!

When our residents have finished reading their papers, we save and then deliver them to the fabulous RSPCA team at Ashley Heath. Mary and Dobby were very pleased to say ‘hello’ to our Home Services Advisor, Lucy, this afternoon! We are planning to have a Community Dog Show at Kings Park when the weather is warmer and the ladies from the RSPCA were telling Lucy all about a Fun Day they are planning in the summer. Keep an eye out on their website for details www.rspca.org.uk/local/ashley-heath-animal-centre and ours for the upcoming Dog Show!

Kingston Lacy Snowdrops

There were snowdrops aplenty at Kingston Lacy this morning that have all kinds of names such as ‘Ding Dong’ and ‘Heffalump’!

Lime Avenue looked like a carpet of white delicateness and The Fernery felt like a Fairy Garden as we twined our way through the raised beds full of snowdrops nestled around daffodils and crocuses, all waiting to burst open.

Henrietta Bankes, a passionate horticulturist, first had her gardener plant snowdrops at Kingston Lacy in the early 1900s and he certainly did an excellent job!

We will be returning to see the bluebells when they have opened up in the Spring! Can almost smell them already!

Anyone for scrabble?!

Steve brought his enormous board with him this afternoon to get our minds thinking as two teams played against each other for an intensive game. One team played ‘Cheque’ in the top right hand corner for a whopping 63 points!

A Sailor’s Life for Me!

We were enthralled by a very interesting talk from Keith Barnwell, who served in the Navy for 37 years starting as a Junior Assistant Stores Account Class 2 and completing his service as Commander of his own ship. We also learnt how many current day sayings stemmed from the Navy - for example, the saying “Three square meals a day” comes from the square trencher plates used in the Navy as far back as the 1500’s. Keith is one of Barchester Healthcare’s Leadership Development Facilitator’s and prepared this presentation especially for us here at Kings Park. Thank you very much Keith! We all greatly enjoyed it

Game, Set & Match!

Djokovic might have caused a stir at the Australian Open this week but it didn’t stop our residents getting their rackets out!

With the weather outside being very chilly, we played a few games of tennis in the lounge - luckily no ornaments were broken so our Housekeeping Team were happy!