Activities at Dudwell St Mary Care Home
Our activity coordinator provides our home with a fun-packed weekly programme to engage all residents. Past activities include bread making, pottery, knitting, and card making. Not only do we run regular exercise programmes for the residents but we also have our regular entertainers come in to entertain our residents and their families. The activity coordinator visits residents on a one-to-one basis, for a chat, manicure and hand massage. The activity co-ordinator said "Residents love the one-to-ones and especially enjoy the manicure and hand massage, as not only is it stimulating but it boosts their confidence and pride in their appearance.''
Linda Lawes
My Name is Linda and I am one of the Activities Co-ordinators at Dudwell St. Mary care home.
I joined Dudwell St Mary in April 2008 as a Housekeeping Assistant and later became the Head of Housekeeping. In 2018 I then became an activities co-ordinator where I brought lots of new exciting ideas to the role.
I am passionate about my role within the home and aim to bring a smile to all our residents’ faces through different types of activities. My personality is bright and bubbly so aim to share this each day at work.
As I gather the residents likes and dislikes if you would like to come and chat with me about your family member please contact the home to arrange.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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 Dudwell St Mary Care Home
Harvest Festival
To celebrate harvest festival, our residents have been making some lovely flower arrangements in pumpkins. We think they've turned out great and look beautiful in our home!
Remembrance Day
Our residents have spent the week making decorations to mark Remembrance Day. We held a service with hymns and poems to mark the day.
Autumn Crafts
We have been busy making our autumn crafts to decorate the home. Here we are making clay leaf bowls ready for our harvest festival.
PetPals
PetPals are regular visitors to the home and always popular. One of our residents was delighted to spend time with one of the guinea pigs!
Cream Tea
We had a lovely trip out in the minibus to a local alpaca farm. We enjoyed feeding the alpacas and had a very tasty cream tea.
Photo Booth!
We had a photo booth set up so residents and staff could have their photos taken and enjoy a bit of dressing up too!
