Community Visits

Throughout the year Flixton Manor plans and books visitors from outside the home to come in to entertain us all. The residents choose who they would like to see and the visits are planned around their favourite performers.

We have some firm favourites who come into the home several times per year, where they perform songs from the musicals or from different era’s and decades.  Anyone we try out who has not visited us before, we usually hold a residents vote as to whether they come back to us again.

Amongst the singers / entertainers we have our very own Elvis.

Also at Flixton Manor we have Guest Speakers who come into us from many places.  For example,

The  ImperialWarMuseum came in to deliver a talk and handed round various artefacts of certain episodes of time that all our residents were familiar with. The residents were invited to discuss their own experiences and a fulfilling afternoon of reminiscence and memories was had.

Another guest speaker to Flixton Manor was in the form of  “Leslie” who read to our residents from her own War Diary.

The local Mobility Shop have also paid us a visit and set up shop and discussed with the residents various equipment to assist and aid them.

Our local Florists comes into the home and holds a professional floral display and we raffle off the displays to raise funds.

The local Wine Shop has been invited in to hold a wine tasting evening.

The local “Dog Walkers” come in for our residents weekly for our residents to enjoy a petting afternoon.

The local jewellers come into the home regularly to show their designs and the residents make small purchases and buy gifts.

We have our own in house clothing company that set up shop which allows our residents the freedom to shop for their own clothes and accessories, in the comfort of their own home.  The home also receives a 15% donation from the clothing ladies for the Residents Fund.

The local Bell Ringers come into the home to entertain several evenings per year.

The local Confectioner has been into the home to show us his cake decorating skills

And we are the proposed 2010 project  for the local Gardening Club, whose aim is to involve the residents in assisting with the making a section of the garden into a sensory area.