Activities at Lynde House Care Home
Our Activities Coordinators get a real buzz off their work here as enthusiasm is essential for the role. We decorate and celebrate for all the big annual events, Valentine's Day, Easter, Mothering Sunday and much more. There are also regular fixtures in our activities programme, including bingo, a sherry morning and quizzes, that are always well-attended. There's also an International Day that we hold to celebrate the wonderful ethnic diversity of our staff, where members of our team and their families give up their time to showcase their national costumes, dances and songs. Of course, we also have activities and services tailored to those residents who prefer the quiet life, such manicures or simply a friendly chat and a cup of tea. We always do our best to learn about residents' hobbies and interests and try to arrange our activities programme around their individual likes and dislikes.
Gitana Norvaisiene
Gitana Norvaisiene is our Life Enrichment Coordinator. She oversees and organises all social activities within the home. Although Gitana only recently took up the Coordinators role she was previously a carer at Lynde House. Within her first year she was honoured with being shortlisted at the National Barchester Awards in the category of Activities Coordinator of the year and also won with her team of residents and local school pupils the Barchester In Bloom best Flower display
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 Lynde House Care Home
Birthday Celebrations
We celebrated Peggy's 100 birthday. She was joined by her close family and friends a celebration of this special day... and, of course, to read that all important card from Her Majesty the Queen!
Spring Preparations
Winter may be here but we are already preparing for Spring! Many of our residents love gardening and here at Lynde House we take full advantage of this in our beautiful gardens .
Intergenerational Fun
Another joyful afternoon with our nursery children. Christmas is coming so we created beautiful Christmas cards.
Green Fingers
A huge thanks to GoodGym in Richmond for creating some raised beds in one of our gardens. We have a long association with this team who have given us their time on many occasions. Their talents are endless: painting garden furniture, building bird boxes, carol singing for residents at Christmas, and now they have given some residents an opportunity to start planting their spring flowers.
Getting Creative
The drawing and colouring session worked well. Tilly seemed interested to start with, but then let our residents get on with the task in hand!
Getting Creative
At Lynde House, we consider residents' overall feeling of well-being to be so important that we make it a priority to spend time with residents on a one-to-one basis. Seb and John spent a lovely couple of hours indulging in John’s passion for drawing and art. Charcoal is his material of choice, but this isn't a bad effort at all!
