Activities at Lydfords Care Home

Recently, we invited a local social club, the Travelling Tea Trays, to join us for a buffet-style lunch and refreshments.

Taking place once every month, the Travelling Tea Trays visit the East Hoathly Village Hall for their Social Club for older adults. Lydfords residents have been attending these events for many months now and the residents are consistently enjoying them.

To say thank you to the team who organised the event as well as the other attendees, the Lydfords staff invited everyone back to the home after the social club for a buffet-style lunch put together by our fantastic Head chef, Joe and Second Chef Alina. There was a variety of different homemade foods for everyone to try, from Arancini to Mini Quiches and a fabulous Cake for dessert. 

Lydfords residents were recently visited by Father James for their monthly church service held in the Café Lounge. 

The residents who choose to attend these visits from Father James find them extremely important, especially as some of them are less able to attend a church so having the service come to them makes such a difference.

Many of the residents are consistently attending the monthly visits from Father James. One resident said “I look forward to the visits from Father James as I enjoy the peace and positivity that you receive from the service.”

Residents recently received a visit from our new Pet Therapy dog, Meg, and her owner, Elizabeth. Elizabeth and Meg went round the whole home and got introduced to all the residents.

The residents were all very excited about having a new Pat dog visit the home. They all enjoyed visits from animals. The residents were all happy to hear that Meg would be coming to visit once every fortnight, and they were looking forward to her next visit.   

Residents and guests at Lydfords care home in East Hoathly enjoyed an afternoon of grins with a live concert performance that took place at the home. Local singers performed a selection of summer sounds, including Whitney Housten’s ‘I wanna dance with somebody’ in the Main Lounge area of the home.

Residents joined in with the singing, and clapped along as the band performed their finale song, Rock Around The Clock. Many relatives joined their loved ones for lunch, then spent the afternoon enjoying the music with them. General Manager, Anthony Butler said, “Our residents and guests had a wonderful day singing along with the wonderful performer. We do our best to provide a wide range of activities and entertainment at Lydfords as part of the lifestyle enrichment programme for residents, and this was one of our favourites!”

One resident said, “I haven’t heard some of these songs in many years. The classics never go out of style!”  

We have recently held our Annual Light up at Lydfords! Residents, Staff and members of our local community all gathered at Lydfords to watch the switching on of the fantastic Christmas lights organised by our Activities Lead, Carole. The lights all looked fantastic and everybody celebrated with a glass of Mulled Wine and a Mince Pie!

We were joined by some local Charity Social Groups, Travelling Tea Trays and also warming spaces, who contributed to the decor of the home. The travelling tea trays made a fantastic wicker tea cup and warming spaces joined with the Uckfield Men’s Club, who built a wonderful wooden tree which they displayed nicely in the lounge. 

Later on, everyone enjoyed some lovely carol singing by Lydfords choir, who have spent months practising their favourite carols to perform. Everyone had a fantastic evening and were looking forward to doing it again next year!

A local care home is through to the final stages of the Community Awards hosted by Ashdown Radio.

Lydfords Care Home has been selected for their achievements in providing a high quality of care for the Local Area.

The prestigious Community Awards are organised by Ashdown Radio. The awards aim to bring more attention to people and companies in the Local community so that they are all recognised for their hard work. 

Anthony Butler, General Manager for Lydfords Care Home said: “This award celebrates individuals who have demonstrated outstanding excellence in their work and the staff at Lydfords could not be more dedicated to top-quality care. We are all so proud of the team for reaching this stage of the competition and hope that we go all the way!”   

Residents at Lydfords have been discovering all things Antipodean in celebration of Australia Day, which took place on Monday 26 January.

Residents took part in Australian-themed activities throughout the day including a virtual trip down under with a tour of all the popular cities of Australia which everyone really enjoyed.  The favourite activity of the day was however a tasting of some Australian-themed snacks whipped up by head chef, Joe Grey.    

Jackie, a resident at Lydfords commented: “I have always wanted to go to Australia so this was the next best thing, we visited all kinds of wonderful places and I especially enjoyed the snack tasting session.  It’s been a brilliant day!”    

We recently welcomed residents, staff and members of our local community to join us for a Christmas pop-up shopping market! There were all kinds of stalls on offer selling a variety of different bits. There were delicious chocolate bars, lovely craft items, fabulous knitwear, jewellery and collectables; The list goes on!

Sue from Activities organised a Tombola to raise money for our Residents Fund as well as Christmas Cards designed by some of our residents. We raised an amazing £30 from the Tombola and the Cards and in the next residents' meeting it will be discussed what they would like to spend this on. 

Everyone who attended managed to get some lovely last-minute Christmas gifts, and we are looking forward to booking in another shopping market for the new year!  

The home was transformed into the Cavern Club to mark Global Beatles Day on.  The day celebrates the band’s music and also promotes their message of peace and love.

Lots of our residents are big Beatles fans and still love a lot of 60’s music.  Everyone had a fantastic day listening to all their hits, as well as many other popular songs from the 60’s. In the afternoon they had a history of The Beatles and other 60’s music discussion. The residents really enjoyed talking about all their old favourite songs.