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.
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 Milford House Care Home
A Visit from Mike and Muriel
A cold January day was brightened by the visit of Mike and Muriel who entertained us for the afternoon. They performed a range of songs for us, had us singing along, demonstrated some ballroom dancing and even got some of us line-dancing where we discovered what having 'two left feet' really means! It was a really fun and interactive afternoon and we are thoroughly looking forward to their next visit in March.
Feels like Spring at Milford House
Residents at Milford House decided that they wanted to feel spring was around the corner even if we have had the first real frosts of the year. So we went to our craft cupboard, got out the tissue paper and created some lovely spring blossom of our own. We then went out into the garden and gathered some twigs, put the whole lot up on our board in the Conservatory and hey presto - Spring has arrived in this corner of the home!
Theatre Outing
A small group of Residents visited Salisbury Playhouse for the matinee performance of 'Can't Buy Me Love' which was a medley of songs and words on the theme of money and love. It was a wonderful show with a range of songs from every era matching the theme and we had a thoroughly entertaining afternoon. This is the fourth year running we have attended this after Christmas revue and we can't wait to book for next year's show!
Santa's Helpers
With so many residents to visit, Santa couldn't be expected to manage by himself and so a range of helpers gathered to welcome him and lend a hand as he visited each resident to personally deliver a Christmas present! It was quite a motley crew including a reindeer, elves and even a snowman, but all gifts were safely delivered!
Amazing Amaryllis
Residents at Milford House are rightly proud of the gorgeous Amaryllis that we planted (along with about 10 others) in early November and which has just come out in time for Christmas. It is the first of several, so we will be enjoying them over the coming weeks as they grace the rooms around the home. They have grown so quickly that it feels as though you can literally see them shoot up in front of your eyes. We have also grown some hyacinths and these are also out and making the home smell wonderful.
Upcoming events
Need a venue?
We have a room that is available to hire for free to members of the local community.
