Activities at Parley Place Care Home

Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.

We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.

Enriching life
Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Brian Ramsay

Activities Co-ordinator

I love being a friendly face for our residents.  A day in their lives should be filled with the care they deserve and enriched with activities.  We embrace each and every moment and make memories, I have many skills and a passion to provide our residents with the social interactions, lots of activities, smiles, laughter and fun. 

Life-encriching activities booklet Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.

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 Parley Place Care Home

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Mark's Music

We had a fabulous afternoon with Mark Bussell playing for us.  We enjoyed some birthday cakes alongside some lovely tunes! 

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Busy Birthday week

We had a bumper week of birthdays to start of October! 

We celebrated with 3 residents,  Roger, Diana and Ivor as well as Donna and Julie from the team! 

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Classic Car and Vintage Bike Show

Wow, what a fantastic day we had yesterday at our Classic car and Bike show.A huge thank you to everyone who attended and brought their fantastic cars, bikes and scooters. To Grumpy Grandads Dorset, Top Hat Riders, The Rolling Bars, Charlotte Geary,David Craner, Mayor of Ferndown, Sharon's Ice creams and to all our volunteers, staff, residents, relatives and community for making the day a huge success.
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Music Therapy

We had the most fabulous day with Fraser from Nordoff and Robbins yesterday at Parley Place.We love our music here and Fraser was patient and so kind to our residents, he spent time doing one to one sessions on the drums, group sessions with the instruments and also group sing along in the afternoon.Thank you so much for entertaining our residents and we look forward to seeing Fraser again soon.
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Back to School Wisdom from our Residents

As the school year starts soon, our residents here at Parley Place have been busy preparing some special messages for our local school children.They’ve shared their motivational words of wisdom to help the children kick off the term with a smile, there is some great advice here and we are sending our best wishes to all children starting or returning to school this week.Check out the photos we’ve taken of their advice!
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Fun at Sea!

We love going on the Dolphin III boat from Poole Quay but this trip was extra special for one of our residents.Carolina took the helm and drove the boat for the skipper and guests down the Wareham river. Carolina loves being on the water - her husband built her a boat and taught her how to drive this as they took trips on the Thames down to Oxford and it's a place she feels very comfortable.