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
Flower Mural
Friends, Mal and Hazel had a wonderful afternoon recently as they enjoyed making their flower mural together. They painted, cut out and glued on their own flower creations to make a lovely picture which they put up in the lounge.
108th Birthday Celebrations
One of our residents celebrated her 108th birthday this month. Her sons came to visit, one of which had came over from Greece to see her! Happy Birthday!
PetPals
Local company PetPals as therapy visit us regularly and is a very popular activity for our residents. This month they brought in chickens and bunnies. We set up in one of our lounges and for those who could not get there in person, we took the bunnies to their rooms so they did not miss out!
Local School makes Christmas cards
Local Burwash Primary School made our residents Christmas cards recently. We took them round to the residents on our Christmas trolley which they really loved. We sent the children some chocolates and cards as a thank you!
Macmillan Coffee Morning
We hosted a Macmillan Coffee Morning to raise money and awareness for cancer research. Friends and family attended and our chef, Tina, baked some lovely cakes for the occasion.
Flower Power
Flower arranging is a very popular activity in our home, so we do this every fortnight. It is always a very relaxing and sociable activity.
