Activities at The Manor Care Home
Our activities staff are here 7 days a week and are constantly striving to mentally and physically stimulate those we care for in a group or individual basis. From trips to garden centres, the theatre, and flower shows to personal shopping and attending family events. We also love organising Christmas fairs, our famous classic car show, musicians, entertainment, and pizza and pint evenings. The team encourage families to visit and work closely with our volunteers to ensure that our residents social care is a priority, so that they have a fun filled and enriched stay whilst here at The Manor.
Marc Chidgey
I have worked at The Manor since 2012, starting out as a kitchen assistant, where I replenished drinks and snacks and assisted in serving meals in communal areas. During this time, outside of the kitchen, I enjoyed meeting residents and took pleasure in seeing their engagement during activities. My interest in resident activities was evident, and I was offered the opportunity to transfer to the activities team.
I love to spend time with residents. I enjoy hearing their stories and finding out what activities interest them. I aim to keep them as active as possible, and my top priority is to instill fun and laughter at The Manor.
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 The Manor Care Home
Skydive for Charity
One of our fantastic nurses, Helen, has been raising money for the Barnaby Webber Foundation by braving the sky and doing a sponsored sky dive. We are so proud of her and admire her courage to do such a daring activity for such an amazing charity that is very much in everyone hearts of our community.
Back on his feet!
It’s a huge benefit to our residents having our in-house physio Ramis in 5 days a week because achievements can be achieved. Mark has been working so hard this year with his cycling and is able to walk so well using the parallel bar, he always smashes his targets. Amazing work done.
Summer Fayre
Thank you to everyone that attended our summer fayre on Saturday. The weather stayed good for us. A special appreciation goes out to all the stall holders that attended, Jan McNeill - Entertainer and Speaker for providing us with some brilliant music, the Somerset Red Arrows Majorettes and dance troupe for providing us with demonstration of what they do and our Volunteers who helped us set up and help with refreshments. Next one the Christmas fayre.
Therapy Dolls
We very kindly had 2 therapy dolls denoted by the wonderful Delia Chinn.
They are already very loved and being well cared for on our memory lane community.
We welcome Lilibet and George to our family. Our residents would like to say a big thank you to Delia for such a kind donation.
Celebrating the King's Coronation
What a way to celebrate a monumental day. Thank you to our amazing volunteers that help prepare the decorations and food so everyone could have a fantastic day. We spent the morning watching the Coronation ceremony and had a lovely party in the afternoon, with some amazing live music, wonderful picnic food and bubbly.
Museum Trip Out
Lovely afternoon out The Museum of Somerset. Thank you for being so helpful. We had an amazing afternoon and even had a little dress up along the way around.
