Activities at Milford House Care Home
The Activities Team at Milford House are dedicated to providing a range of stimulating activities for both groups and individuals, that promote both physical and mental wellbeing based upon resident's interests both past and present. As a member of the National Activity Providers Association (NAPA) the team are always striving to incorporate best practice into the array of activities on offer and to enhance their own skills through qualification with NAPA to NVQ Level 3 in Activities Provision. The team combine weekly activity favourites such as sherry mornings with special events, musical entertainments, slide shows, outings in our own mini-bus as well as interacting with local community groups such as Plain Arts Salisbury to showcase resident art and creativity and others who come into the home to interact with our residents. Milford House also benefits from a strong network of volunteers who support the Activity Team as they deliver their programme and who, along with friends and relatives, are always welcome to come and join in our sessions and outings.
Kylie Colman
Kylie has three years experience as an Activities Co-Ordinator and has loved every moment! Having recently joined the Milford team she is looking forward to getting to know all our residents and to delivering, alongside the rest of the team, an interesting and diverse programme of activities. She loves being outside and in particular organising trips out of the home and activities and events that take place in our gorgeous gardens.
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 Milford House Care Home
Celebrating a Special Birthday in Style
We celebrated four birthdays in March here at Milford and we held a special joint tea party for family and friends in our front lounge to mark the occasion. It was particularly special for one resident who was 102 on the day of the party which made the afternoon even better! Some family members had come from London to join us and others equally far, and for some that weren't able to be there in person there was a video call from the party. The tea tables looked lovely, with delicious cakes made by chef Becky, there were small presents for each resident but without doubt the biggest gift of all was to be able to celebrate in the company of family and friends and to wish our ‘Queen for the Day’ a happy 102nd birthday!
A Special Easter Sunday
We had a great day at Milford as we celebrated Easter Sunday. The residents enjoyed their Easter eggs which arrived on their morning trays and staff were surprised with their own eggs brought in by a family member which was so thoughtful and went down at treat - thank you so much for thinking of everyone! In our festively decorated dining rooms Chef John served up a Sunday lunch treat with traditional roast lamb followed by that Milford must have - Baileys chocolate cheesecake with eggs! Family and friends visited, with some joining us for the meal and altogether it was a great day.
Residents Celebrate Nutrition & Hydration Week
Milford residents and staff rose to the Nutrition & Hydration challenge by holding a different event each day that highlighted the importance of good nutrition and hydration and how we can all improve our health and well-being by following some simple steps to incorporate good practice into our daily routines. The week’s activities included; a brilliant breakfast, time for tea Tuesday, super snacks, thirsty Thursday, fruity Friday, Six Nations smoothie Saturday .........and last but not least ...... Super Sundae! Supporting each event the residents did some, baking, mixing, blending and more as well as making collages and finding out facts about food and drink! What a delicious week all round!
Vintage is all the Vogue at Milford
Milford hosted a vintage fashion show which was a great hit with everyone as the fashions took us all down memory lane. With our very own Gale and Sister Jo strutting the red carpet, the event was compared by Diane Hampstead who is very active in the Salisbury vintage scene. Gale and Jo, who are also enthusiastic collectors of vintage outfits, modelled their own outfits and Jo even wore a dress that belonged to her mother - truly fab-u-lous!
Di's expert commentary highlighted aspects of design, use of colour, patterns and covered the gamut of influences from Mary Quant, Paisley, Pierre Cardin, Mondrian, Twiggy and more. Every outfit was enthusiastically cheered and each was somebody's favourite, but the block colour boots worn by Jo were right up there. Our thanks to the team for putting on a great afternoon - the red carpet will be out again soon!
Mother’s Day Gift Will Keep Growing
Milford House was busy for Mother’s Day with visitors and a special lunch. Our dining rooms looked lovely and spring-like which chimed with the gift that was given to each resident of a pot of mini daffodils to grow and enjoy. These had been a while in the planning as our gardener, Caroline planted them several months ago and has been tending carefully ready to give to everyone. All 70 pots were brought in and wrapped and given to residents on Mother’s Day. They are now growing away and we are all watching their progress as they grow and bud up and continue to give pleasure and brighten up every corner of the home.
Celebrating Birthdays
We always celebrate birthdays here at Milford on the day with a cake and individual celebration, but we thought it would be fun to hold a bigger birthday party e monthly for everyone who has a birthday in that period. So we held our 'February' party this week with our guests of honour the stars of the show. The conservatory was absolutely packed (we think we will need to move to a bigger venue for March!) as we started off the afternoon with games before settling ourselves down at the tea tables to share the most delicious cake (thank you to chef Becky) and tea. Our birthday girls were each given a small gift to take away, there were balloons, a thank you speech and fun - it was just a great afternoon and we can't wait to celebrate those March birthdays.
Upcoming events
Open Day
Come along for a look around, a chat with our friendly team, and find out about life at Milford House. Feel free to pop in on the day, or call us to book an appointment.
Need a venue?
We have a room that is available to hire for free to members of the local community.
