Hanover House has been designed to provide a wide range of on site recreational and life skill activities to meet the needs of patients. These include:

• Budgeting and shopping
• Life skills
• Vocational planning
• Using leisure time and purposeful activity
• Education
• Community access
• Relaxation
• Social skills
• Practical activities
• Arts and crafts
• Gym and physical exercise
• Gardening

Some of these activities will be ward based and others will utilise the excellent hospital wide facilities available on site. These include: IT/education suite/workshops, OT kitchens, cafe, bank, shop, sports hall, gym, multi-faith room etc.

Hanover House encourage and support patients to become involved in other rehabilitative activities including educational and vocational programmes. With the agreement of the multi-disciplinary team, we encourage and facilitate home visits on a regular basis when and where appropriate. We also encourage family visits to the hospital where we have visitor rooms and a dedicated chilldrens' visiting room which has a range of toys and kitchen and bathroom facilities.