Activities at Edingley Lodge Care Home

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!.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.