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.
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 Southerndown Care Home
Open Day
For our open day, we were entertained by In 2 Cultures, where we got taught how to play various African instruments. We were also greeted by a Unicorn pony called Teddy. What a day!
Team Anna
We have joined the rest of the local community to support fundraising for team Anna. Team Anna is an important cause supporting a local girl in Chipping Norton. For our fundraising day, Bogdan our head of maintenance held a charity car wash. What a massive success we had raising money to the sum of £200!
Autumn Newsletter
Colouring Fun
We enjoy colour therapy here at Southerndown, and we are very excited to take part in National Doodle Day. We find colouring and doodling very relaxing, and we always finish with some wonderful pieces of art.
Seaside Memories
What fun we have had making our very own interactive display board of seaside holiday memories.
We started with our favourite holiday destinations, and decided what we liked best about seaside holidays, incorporating it into our board.
Our favourite part of the board is, of course, our very own Punch & Judy show. We had so much fun making this board, and it brought back so many wonderful memories.
Out & About
We decided to make the most of a wonderful sunny afternoon with a drive around the glorious Cotswolds. We made a pit stop for tea in Marsh Garden Centre, and then had a look round at all the wonderful flowers.
