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
Easter Surprise as Chicks Arrive!
The entire staff team at Milford House Care Home were surprised and delighted to each receive an adorable hand-made Easter chick treat box filled with chocolate as a thank you from the daughter of one of our residents. The little boxes are such fun and everyone was in awe of the amount of time and effort that went into creating nearly 100 of them! As the smiles demonstrate, everyone was hugely appreciative and, as they found their way to each staff member they spread a little ray of Easter sunshine and the residents loved seeing thm too. When we got in touch to say thank you we were told “You are all very welcome - it’s nothing compared to what you all do each and every day for our relatives. Happy Easter everyone.”
Celebrating Mothers Day
Milford residents enjoyed a lovely Mother’s Day lunch with place settings set with pretty napkins as well as daffodils and chocolates for all. In the morning they were out picking the daffodils from our garden and these were all delivered around the home to supplement the other lovely bouquets that arrived. We also made sure that our gentleman were included as well! During the afternoon there were pamper sessions and we made sure that everyone was thoroughly spoiled.
Weekly Baking Session are a Favourite
We have started a series of weekly baking sessions which residents are thoroughly enjoying. There is nothing like spending the morning mixing batter, rolling it out and preparing with a cup of tea and plenty of chat and then sitting back and enjoying the results for afternoon tea! Recent delights have included a variety of sausage rolls, welsh cakes and upside down peach sponge and they have all been delicious - we can't wait to see what our cooks create next.
Coffee at the Farm
Residents enjoyed a visit to the café at River Bourne Community Farm where they received a very warm welcome. Following the snow it was a rather raw day so we sensibly decided to visit the animals on our next visit and settled down with our coffee and our selections from the array of delicious cakes. Here’s to the next visit!
Residents Raise Money for Community Farm
Residents and staff were delighted to welcome Ben Parker, Chairman of River Bourne Community Farm to the home today to tell us all about the history of the farm, how it has developed, plans for the future and of course the funding needed to keep the farm going. A much loved local venue, which is just a couple of minutes away from Milford in the heart of Laverstock, it has been a regular place for residents to go and meet the animals and have a cup of coffee and during 2023 we will be fundraising for them to help them continue providing such a valuable community resource so close to the heart of Salisbury.
To get the ball rolling we were delighted to present Ben with a cheque for £240. Each month we will be undertaking a fundraising activity - so watch this space and please join in the fun if you are visiting the home - and also having a regular coffee morning at the farm, the first one being on March 9th. We are looking forward to catching up with Ben again then - see you down on the farm!
Armchair Zumba Goes Down a Storm
Residents at Milford House have been delighted to welcome Kirstie to the home who has been leading us in Armchair Zumba. This is something new for all of us and Kirstie has been running sessions packed to capacity as we all get to learn the exercises. Everyone does what they can and there has been lots of fun and laughter along the way as we seek to maintain and improve mobility.
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.
