Our supported living services are full of activities with a busy calendar of group cooking classes, exercise, health and nutrition workshops, 1-2-1 time and occupational therapy to suit everyone’s needs and help the people we support reach their recovery goals. Here is a little insight into life at Adamson House, our supported living service located in Trafford.
Adamson House had an amazing Inclusion Day filled with activities and important conversations. 🌟
🗣️ Support Worker Laura shared insights on multicultural faith in the workplace.
🏳️🌈 Deputy Manager Mandi highlighted the importance of LGBT+ inclusion.
💃 Everyone joined in a vibrant inclusion conga line.
🏃♂️🏃♀️ The service participated in a thrilling inclusion foot race.
🍲 And, came together to make and enjoy a delicious Ukrainian dish.
At Northern Healthcare, we believe in celebrating and embracing diversity every day. Let’s continue to build a more inclusive and supportive community! 💖 #InclusionWeek #DiversityAndInclusion #NorthernHealthcare #UnityInDiversity
Residents and team members at Adamson House decorated for Halloween, and it looks spook-tacular!
During June Adamson House went all out for Pride Month! Not only did they participate in ‘Wear It With Pride’ day where staff and residents wore something colourful. But the service hosted a coffee morning to raise money for The Proud Trust, and won our LOUD and PROUD competition as they were chosen as our best-decorated service. Everyone had a great time enjoying the buffet, music and Pride-themed quiz!
Our residents and team members at Adamson House were treated to another performance from Big Jessie! This time it was festive themed, and residents and team members alike really enjoyed the show.
Joe, one of our Occupational Therapy Support Workers, has been teaching our residents a new skill! Joe has been giving our residents at Adamson House guitar lessons with sing-a-long sessions.
Our residents at Adamson House have been busy over the weekend, enjoying a World Cup party and baking a tasty lemon drizzle cake in baking group!
Adamson House have been welcoming a new resident transitioning into the service, the team and residents have welcomed him in food group.
In the most recent residents’ meeting, residents at Adamson House asked to do a nature trail walk. The team took this on board and organised a day out in nature – here are some snaps of everyone enjoying their day out!
Following this, residents were supported to make smores for Bonfire night.
Residents at Adamson House had a lovely evening celebrating Halloween, dressing up, dancing in the kitchen, carving pumpkins, and enjoying a delicious buffet spread!
Residents and team members enjoyed a relaxing yoga session over the weekend.
Our Adamson House residents have been enjoying lots of different activities this week, including:
🥞 Vegan banana pancake flipping
🏋️Taking part in a gym induction
🍹A strawberries and cream afternoon complete with mocktails!
In honour of Pride month, our Adamson House service put on a drag show, with a special appearance from Drag Queen, Big Jessie! Our residents enjoyed a Pride themed quiz, with educational questions on key Pride facts, before sitting down to watch Big Jessie’s performance! The show was streamed live on Teams for residents and team members from all of our services to watch along!
Our Adamson House residents have been busy over the last couple of weeks – here are some of the activities they have been enjoying!
💇 Hair braiding for pamper day
👕 Designing T-shirts for James’s 10K run to raise money for Mind
💎 Gel nail painting with gems!
🏳️🌈 Painting the garden bench in PRIDE colours.
James, our Business Administrator at Adamson House recently ran the Blackpool 10K for Mind. One of our residents designed some shirts for James to wear when running, and our Adamson House residents signed them in support.
James raised £182 for Mind – a big thank you to everyone for their donations and support!
Adamson House have created a “TEA-R-N” station, inspired by PRN “pro re nata” which translates to “as the situation demands”. The station provides our residents with a selection of herbal teas available for drinking based on what they need. There are teas to calm stress, improve digestion and even teas to detox the body.
The station is a soothing activity that residents like to relax and enjoy together.
Our residents from Adamson House have been busy with some pre-Easter baking! They baked some lovely chocolate cupcakes with vanilla frosting and mini eggs.
One of our residents also personally went around to hand out a cupcake to all the residents, staff and visitors that were at the service, and the feedback received was that the cupcakes were ‘very light and fluffy’! 🍰
Two of our team members at Adamson House in Partington led a yoga session this week. Yoga is incredibly beneficial to our overall mental health and physical wellbeing.
