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.
Claudia Canosa
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.
Read our brochure
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
Tea & Cake Aplenty!
We recently welcomed a wonderful group of local individuals into our home for a special tea party...
Having been contacted by a representative of the Re-engage charity, who help tackle loneliness for those in our community over the age of 75, we welcomed 16 local individuals and their wonderful driver volunteers for afternoon tea.
Everyone enjoyed a lovely selection of finger sandwiches, cakes and treats all made by the wonderful, Wynn, our Head Chef.
Thank you to all who came along, it was our absolute pleasure to host you all and we hope to see you all again in the future.
Our doors are always open!
Floral Fancy...
A great BIG THANK YOU to our wonderful neighbours at Marks and Spencer Foodhall in Ferndown, who recently gifted us some fabulous flowers...
The flowers in question, were the perfect injection of colour into our home and our lovely residents have very much enjoyed their scent and colour dotted throughout the building, as well as enjoying arranging them in vases.
We would also like to thanks the very lovely Anne, daughter of our resident, Sheila, who was very kind in collecting them too!
What a wonderful sensory tonic they have been in our wet wintery season.
Our LOVE of Animals...
We wanted to show you what we got up to when we went along with our generous donations of animal food & equipment, donated by friends and family and staff of Kings Park, as well our lovely new friends over at the Castleman Community Larder, on our visit to drop everything off at Margaret Green Animal Rescue Centre in Church Knowle...
Upon our arrival at the Rescue Centre, we received a very warm welcome from the incredible staff there, before the lovely Liz gave us a full guided tour, meeting many of the animals that they help.
Goats, pigs, donkeys, horses & ponies, rabbits, pigs, chickens and more!
Not only did we see these amazing animals, but the countryside in which the Centre is set, is absolutely stunning! We urge you to head to their facebook page and take a look at all they do, then check their opening times and pop on over and see for yourself, as they are open to the public too.
A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who donated and for helping the animals receive a little love this Valentines' season.
Check out the the photo of the very photogenic horse, Rocky, who even smiled for a picture with our residents!
Feel the LOVE!
The residents at Kings Park had a wonderful afternoon full of fun, games and love in honour of St. Valentine...
During our afternoon full of LOVE, there was lots of music, accompanied by some bubbles (which then lead on to an impromptu sing-along of 'I'm forever blowing bubbles'...). before ending the afternoon exercising the grey matter...
Residents were tasked with brain storming as many famous duos/couples as they could think of and they certainly made a very impressive list!
Everyone from Romeo & Juliet, Tom & Jerry, Morecambe & Wise to Charles & Camilla, as well as Torville & Dean and Ant & Dec - The list went on and on!
From everyone here in the home, we are sending you all our love this Valentines season.
Flipping Fun!
Thinking outside of the box, was the name of the game recently here at Kings Park...
Residents joined together this afternoon for a fun game or two of 'Flipping Pancakes', yet not in the traditional sense!
The aim of the game was to match the numbered pancakes with their twin.
The winner was the one who matched the most!
Take a look at how they got on.
Community Larder
We recently linked in with some lovely new friends over at The Castleman Community Larder in West Moors...
If you haven't heard about the incredible work they do over there to help their local community, then follow the links above and go and see for yourself!
The wonderful Michelle who runs the larder, along with her incredible parents, Margaret & Noel and the army of volunteers, have really got behind our campaign to show rescue animals some love this Valentine's season.
So we recently took some residents along to the larder to collect some food items donated for the animal residents over at Margaret Green Animal Rescue, which is where we headed after our visit to the larder.
Margaret was on hand at the larder to do a handover of items before we headed off for some animal adventures to drop off all we had collected. (More on this later on in the week...)
A MASSIVE THANK YOU to Michelle and co for being so generous and helpful in our plight to show some love to our furry friends.
