Activities at Boroughbridge Manor Care Home

We were super excited to welcome Jen at Sycamore Nook Therapets and her Guinea pigs into our home! We had the opportunity to feed, snuggle and learn all about Ted, Henrietta and friends as Jen bought plenty of cuddly guinea pigs along to meet us all. Our furry friends can work wonderfully for reducing anxiety, improving mood and encouraging communication and engagement in people with dementia.

Of course resident Audrey just had to have a snuggle with baby Audrey too! We had a wonderful morning, thank you Jen for visiting us today!

Residents have enjoyed 2 days of racing fun at Boroughbridge Manor! On Friday we held our own ladies day, where residents donned their fanciest headwear as we took part in a game of fun but factual, horse racing bingo! The fizz was flowing and we tucked into a delicious treat of chocolate strawberries too! Saturday we came together in the main lounge, where the bar was open, to watch the famous Randox Grand National. For many, this brought back memories of bringing the family together for a little bit of fun each year, watching the horses race! Residents and staff took part in a lucky dip before the race began. Congratulations to our resident Val who pulled out the winner and said “well, they do say the grand national is anyone’s race!”

This month we headed out on our minibus to Yolk Farm Kitchen, where we were given the amazing opportunity to bottle feed some baby lambs! The lambs were hungry and ready for a feed and each resident had the opportunity to bottle feed at least one lamb as they jumped around the pen! The lambs won all our hearts over and we were able to give them all a cuddle too! This activity brought back memories for some and created new experiences for others, but was enjoyed equally by everyone!

We welcomed Rochelle Ayris Entertainment into our home to help us celebrate what would have been Doris Days’ birthday, with a fantastic performance of some of her well-loved hits! Doris was a well-known American actress, singer and animal welfare activist. The home was filled with sounds of her most popular hits as we sang along to all of our favourites! We had a brilliant morning together and as always loved watching Rochelle perform! Musical entertainment always encourages residents and staff to join us on the dancefloor, providing a morning of light exercise and good fun!

In the run up to Easter we were lucky to be joined by both Rev Karen Gardiner and Rev Ian Pruden who provided us with a wonderful Easter service. Many of our residents gathered in the dining room downstairs as we sang some of our favourite hymns and learnt of the story of Easter. Residents and families really enjoyed this service and its always lovely to welcome our visitors, families and friends to join in all of our services.

Students from Roecliffe CE Primary School kindly visited and set up an Easter egg hunt in our garden for the residents to enjoy. With some clues and direction from the children, residents worked with them in small groups to locate as many chocolate eggs as we could, hidden in the grounds! What fun this was! We then spent time inside chatting together about our Easter traditions and exchanged handmade cards and Easter treats! We also had the wonderful team and children from Happy Jays Nursery - Boroughbridge visit. We decided it would be great fun to set up an Easter Egg hunt in the garden, for us all to enjoy with the smaller children as the weather stayed fine. The residents get so much joy from seeing young children having fun together and enjoy their company greatly. One of our residents and her daughter also crocheted some Easter egg cosies in the run up to Easter, to donate to all of our residents, which were very gratefully received by everyone!