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.

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

Helen Hudson

Activities Coordinator

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.

Life-encriching activities booklet

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 The Cedars Bourne Care Home

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VE Day Celebrations

Residents at the Cedars care home, in Bourne recently enjoyed a very own street party set up in the home down Rowan and Maple’s corridor with banners, posters, streamers and balloons filling the corridor with red, white and blue. Our kitchen chef made sandwiches, Victoria sponge cake, coconut tarts, sausage rolls and Bakewell tart for a tasty treat that our residents can enjoy.

Residents at the home are happy to be able to celebrate VE Day and loved hearing wartime songs playing down the corridor, it meant such a lot as visitors are currently not able to visit the home at this time.


Becky, General Manager at the Cedars Care Home said: “In these unprecedented times, ensuring residents feel engaged and connected within our local community is more important than ever. Our residents spirits have raised being able to celebrate and have our own street party in the home. We provide a wide range of physical, mental and spiritual activities at the Cedars as part of the life enrichment programme for residents, and this one was very popular! We have also adapted ways to keep residents active, whilst ensuring that the group activities are smaller, adhering to social distancing advice.”

Residents Are Getting Active

Residents at the Cedars care home, in Bourne recently enjoyed getting active taking part in penalty shootout football game to get their legs moving and to stay as active as we can during this unfortunate time.

Our residents enjoy being active to take their minds off what is happening in the world, it can be very upsetting and we want to keep them occupied and focused on more fun activities and getting as many involved as we can.

Being active has kept us laughing and smiling bringing happy moral into the home.

Keeping Busy

Dorothy is one of our residents in the Cedars in Bourne, who really enjoys keeping her brain active, she has been doing embroidery designs.

When doing the designs she will use her own imagination to choose the colours and use her own flare of stitching patterns to create it making the design a one of a kind. This is her latest work in progress so far.

Residents Receive Drawings

Our residents have been enjoying all the lovely messages and drawings, received from the local children. All the pictures have been displayed around the home for all to enjoy and to brighten up their days.

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Easter Activities

Our residents have been working hard decorating Easter bonnets and now Good Friday is here we will see who won the bonnet competition.

Two of our nurses judged the bonnets whilst the residents wore them and come to the decision Jean won looking so bonnie in her bonnet.

On Easter Sunday all of our resident received an Easter egg. Then for Easter Monday we finished the Easter celebration off with an Easter egg hunt.

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Messages from our Residents

Our resident took part writing little messages on a white board and had their photo taken to spread love, safety and awareness during this lockdown.

Upcoming events

April

Springing into April and a fun filled month ahead - all welcome.

Newsletter - Easter Edition

We are delighted to share our latest newsletter - we hope you enjoy reading!

May

May is the gateway to summer and we have lots of fun filled activities planned - all welcome.

Newsletter

We are delighted to share our latest newsletter and 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.

Coffee Morning

Come and enjoy a morning of good company, refreshments and a slice of home made cake.

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.