Activities at Winchester House Care Home
Our activities team are constantly striving to mentally and physically stimulate those we support by organising group and individual activities for anyone and everyone to participate in. There are regular outings in the minibus to nearby places of interest, including the local priory and garden centres, as well as visits from musicians, a wide range of entertainers. We are lucky enough to have a enthusiastic team of volunteers who regularly visit the home throughout the week, and our yearly pantomime is a real crowd-pleaser and is well-attended by residents, relatives and members of staff. Activities are one of the most important aspects of a care home, so it is essential that our team are dedicated to ensuring that residents are entertained, and that life at Winchester House is fun and active.
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 Winchester House Care Home
Winchester's Centenarian
We had the pleasure of celebrating a resident's 100th birthday! Denise loved receiving her card from the Queen, as well as all her cards, presents and balloons!
Informative Talks
Over the past few weeks, we have been delighted to invite some of our favourite entertainment and activity providers back into the home. Residents have once again been able to enjoy live music and holy communion, as well as the wonderful Tim from Dawson Talks. Tim gave us an informative talk about the 1950s, complete with music and video clips. Some of our residents remembered Tim and were pleased to see him again, while some of our newer residents were excited to experience something new.
International Nurses' Day
We wanted to thank all our wonderful nurses for the hard work they do each and every day. Barchester thanked them all with chocolates and we decided to gift them all their own personalised jar of treats.
We also wanted to take this opportunity to thank the nurses in our local community who have also been working extra hard, especially over the past few months, delivering vaccinations to everyone, so we delivered doughnuts to all our local healthy living centres and surgeries.
Al Fresco Entertainment
It was so wonderful to be able to welcome back one of our regular entertainers: Rob T. Rob set up in the courtyard so that all the bedrooms circling him could watch and listen to him sing from the comfort and safety of their rooms. There were smiling faces all round, from staff, residents, and even some of our relatives visiting.
Gardening Club
As part of our big garden clean up, we have started a gardening club every Tuesday. The gentlemen love coming out into the court yard to help us clean up and we are looking forward to stripping everything back and started fresh with new plants, flowers, ornaments and lighting. We can’t wait to sit and enjoy our new gardens when they are done.
Endless hours of Pleasure
Staff and Residents recently spent the afternoon making Bird Feeders to spread around our beautiful grounds here at Winchester House. We have large natural gardens that attract many different birds and songbirds. They give our residents endless hours of pleasure watching them. Our home made feeders are basic but currently are doing an excellent job.
