Activities at Southerndown Care Home
Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
Cathy Wheeler
I have been with the team at Southerndown since 2023
People ask me what I enjoy about my job and the answer is easy... 'the people'. Its the small things that make the difference every day, seeing people smile and seeing someone respond positively to interaction. We offer a great life enrichment programme at Southerndown and every day is different but enjoyable.
In my spare time I like to spend time in the garden, I enjoy sewing but mostly love spending time with my grandchildren
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 Southerndown Care Home
Southerndown Olympics
The Olympic Games has come to Southerndown. We had so much fun - who knew we were all so competitive and so amazing at Beanbag Shot. We can’t wait for the next round of games!
National Carrot Cake Day
Our wonderful Head Chef Peter made a delicious carrot cake for the whole home to enjoy as we celebrate 'National Carrot Cake Day' The residents all agreed it tasted just as good as it looks!
Tristan Entertains
On Saturday we had our meet the manager day and were lucky enough to have a visit from singer Tristan.
The residents always look forward to his visits and we had lots of fun singing and dancing along (both residents and staff that is!).
Rice Crispy Cakes
Today our amazing care assistants; Julie and Sasha had a very tasty baking session on our Blenheim Gardens community. We can all agree the rice crispy cakes looked and tasted absolutely scrumptious!
International Flower Day
Today was international flower day to mark the occasion we had a flower arranging workshop. One resident Margaret who joined the workshop today is a proud member of the WI, she gave us her help and expertise. We were all pleased with the final results.
Project 'Dolls House'
Today we started a very special activity ‘project dolls house’. Southerndown’s activity team recently bought a second hand dolls house for our Blenheim Gardens community.
We have had a wonderful morning making an inspiration board with our favourite ideas, designs, themes and colours. We were able to start our board with a very kind donation of ideal home magazines from local Jacqueline.
Thank you Jacqueline, they are very much appreciated. We are really pleased with our progress so far. We have had lots of discussions and we think we know what designs we would like to start with our dolls house.
