Activities at The Cedars Bourne Care Home
Our activities team are great at building the activities programme around the likes and interests of the people we care for. Ensuring that our social events offer fun and adventure is part of the ethos of our home; it’s important that those we support can enjoy an active and social lifestyle. Of course, there will always be those who prefer peace and quiet, and in these instances, a cup of tea and a chat are always welcomed.
Helen Hudson
Hello. I’m Helen, the Activities Coordinator at The Cedars. I joined the team in 2021 and I have lots of skills that I can use to create an interesting and varied programme of activities, events and celebrations for residents to enjoy. I am a qualified holistic therapist and offer an holistic approach to activities in the home, I love creating new activities that our residents enjoy, taking residents out on day trips and promoting wellbeing through lots of different activities. When I am not at work I love playing my clarinet, crocheting and art - I use all of these in my role.
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 The Cedars Bourne Care Home
Resident celebrates 102-years young
Celebrations have been in full swing at our home as one of its residents reached 102 years in style.
Ronald Priest celebrated his birthday surrounded by family, friends, residents and staff. Ron enjoyed a special birthday lunch with his daughter and friends, freshly prepared by Chef Richard, with a glass of bubbly to toast the day. Ron and his family and friends then joined other residents for a quiz afternoon finished with a fabulous birthday cake and lots of birthday wishes.
Watercolours with Lisa
We had a lot of fun exploring water colour painting this month with Activity Assistant Lisa.
It's a hard medium to master but with some great books explaining how to slowly build up a picture, we all created some fantastic paintings. Barbara was so thrilled and couldn't believe what she was able to accomplish. Marjorie totally surprised herself saying, ‘I'm no artist but that was really enjoyable’. With such positive feedback, this activity will now be a regular on our schedule.
The Florist Garden
This month we had a wonderful visit from Karen, a local Florist, who gave us a tutorial to create a sweet Easter flower arrangement. We used little cream buckets, beautiful flowers and Agra wool; (an environmentally friendly alternative to oasis blocks).
The colours of the blooms in blues, purples and pale lemons along with the striking green foliage made some amazing creations. Karen explained the names of the flowers she had chosen and why, and demonstrated how to arrange them for the best effect. No one could believe they were actually allowed to keep them!
St Patrick's Day
There was mischief and trickery all around The Cedars this month as we celebrated St Patrick's Day this month. We enjoyed playing our Irish themed Pictionary game, with a delicious Irish coffee; before Ellen showed us her Irish dancing. She then recited the poem "the wearing of the green". Thank you Ellen for sharing your culture and knowledge with us all.
London Ladies
As part of our International Women’s Day celebrations, Residents from across our services were thrilled to join tour guide, Mandy Morrow, for an exciting talk about some Legendary London Ladies.
Mandy shared the fascinating stories of eight ladies with us, from the one of the richest heiresses in the world to the original 'Roaring Girl'.
Everyone who participated truly enjoyed the experience and were delighted to take a walk down memory lane.
Eyes down for bingo bonzana
Across the country our homes and hospitals came together to find out which care home or hospital had the best Bingo players as we teamed up for Barchester’s Bingo Bonanza.
Residents were treated to some exciting virtual games of Bingo as part of Barchester’ very own game show series.
Everyone who participate had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.
Upcoming events
Newsletter - Easter Edition
We are delighted to share our latest newsletter - we hope you enjoy reading!
Could you be a Volunteer?
We recognise the impact a Volunteer can make on the lives of our residents, do you have any spare time? For more information we'd love to hear from you.
Looking for a place to host a meeting?
For more information why not pop in and see what Cedars Bourne can offer you.
Professionals Break room - weekly
We extend a warm invitation to professionals in our local community to join us each week and take a break on us.
Retired Nurses Club - 3rd Friday of the month
Once a nurse, always a nurse - join us for our monthly Retired Nurses Club - all welcome.
