Activities at Edingley Lodge Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.
Phoebe Hind
Hi, I'm Phoebe, I am the Activities Coordinator at Edingley Lodge. My role is all about creating engaging and stimulating activities for our residents, ensuring they have fun, stay active, and feel connected. I'm a people person at heart, and I love getting to know everyone.
Whether organising arts and crafts sessions, days out, or individual time, I aim to provide fulfilling experiences that brighten our residents day.
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 Edingley Lodge Care Home
Christmas Jumper Day
Residents and staff helped to make the world a better place by wearing their festive jumpers in aid of Save the Children's annual fundraising event, Christmas jumper day. We had glitzy knitwear, traditional and light up jumpers.
Residents also enjoyed the live Christmas sing along with Steve Carmel.
The day has been enjoyed by all. Residents said we much loved staff members wearing Christmas jumper and how it would never go out of fashion!.
Carol singing at Edingley Lodge
Christmas celebrations were in full swing at Edingley Lodge care home as Residents received a special visit from the Farnsfield Community Choir for carol singing.
Residents enjoyed joining in with a number of traditional Christmas carols, including Silent Night and O Little Town of Bethlehem, which filled the home with beautiful music and helped get everyone in the festive spirit.
The residents commented, “I really loved joining in with the Christmas carols, singing them brought back so many memories.
International Men's Day
Today, we celebrated International Men's Day in style. The day is used to highlight positive role models and raise awareness of men's well-being.
We organised a special Gentlemen's Club for our male residents, where they enjoyed classic pub snacks, crisps, beers and had a good old game of dominoes whilst others took part in a pub themed quiz, even some of our ladies got involved.
Why not!
This afternoon, we had a reminiscence session where we discussed male role models in our residents' lives and the important role of fathers, grandfathers, husbands and sons.
It was a great day, enjoyed by all.
World Children's Day
Staff and residents at Edingley Lodge care home had a wonderful time reminiscing about their childhoods on World Children’s Day, which took place on November 20.
The staff and residents got into the spirit of the day receiving visits from their grandchildren or from a local school, enjoying childhood sweets and treats, remembering how their childhoods differ from their grandchildren’s today, listening to staff tell stories about their childhoods spent in other countries. Residents did a story telling session with the children’s who came in. They loved remembering all the positives from times gone by, thinking about how much things have changed and learning about each other’s experiences.
Celebrated annually on November 20, World Children’s Day is supported by UNICEF and aims to help save children’s lives and defend their rights in 190 countries around the world.
Remember, Remember the 5th of November
Staff and residents celebrated Bonfire Night with a bang this November 5th when they wrapped up warm to gather around the bonfire to watch a fantastic firework display and enjoy lots of seasonal treats washed down with some mulled wine.
The residents enjoyed traditional bonfire night treats, including jacket potatoes, hot dogs, toffee apples, treacle toffee and parkin beautifully prepared by the head chef. A resident at Edingley Lodge said: “I have always loved Bonfire Night, it’s so lovely to celebrate these traditions all together. The fireworks bring back so many memories of Bonfire Nights through the years, these times are so special.”
Jilu Stephen General Manager at Edingley Lodge said: “We had a fantastic time building the bonfire and making the Guy, our residents love to keep these traditions and reminisce about years gone by. We had a great sing-a-long around the bonfire drinking our mulled wine, it’s been a brilliant evening.”
Diwali Celebration at Edingley Lodge
Residents and staff at Edingley Lodge had a brilliant day of Diwali.
Marked the start of the Hindu festival of Diwali, popularly known as the ‘festival of lights’.
Residents helped with making colourful patterned rangoli and lighting ‘diyas’, small oil lamps which are lit to signify the triumph of good over evil. Diwali honours Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, the lamps help Lakshmi find her way into people’s homes.
Head chef prepared traditional Indian dishes including a range of warming curries, spicy samosas, crispy bhajis and papadums with lime pickle and chutneys followed by traditional Indian sweets such as laddoo and barfi for the residents to enjoy.
Staff and residents enjoyed dressing up in traditional Indian way and enjoyed Bollywood dance performances from Nottingham Asian arts.
A special thank you for the Nottingham Asian arts centre to makes this event at its best.
Upcoming events
Knit & Natter
Join us at Edingley Lodge every Thursday for our Knit & Natter group, It will give you the chance to meet new people, knit and enjoy refreshments as you natter!
