Activities at Ritson Lodge Care Home

The residents at Ritson Lodge wrote a poem to say thank you to all of the Key Workers and NHS staff who are continuing to support everybody. To view the video of our residents reading the poem, please head over to Ritson Lodge's facebook page. The words are below -

'Keeping us safe as we try not to dwell, each of you trying to also stay well.

You work so hard all doing your best, we feel support and very blessed.

Respecting each other and all that we do, showing our support as we Thank You!'

Gardening club is in full flow here at Ritson, with the residents planting seeds for different types of lettuce and some sweet peas to add to the garden. It was lovely to be out and making the most of the sunshine.

During this difficult time, Ritson Lodge are trying to help support their local community by donating some food parcels to their local food bank.

Food donations were gifted to the Great Yarmouth Food Bank, which were very well-received. The Great Yarmouth Food Bank said ‘Thank you so much for the donation from Ritson Lodge. We were so pleased to receive the cereals in particular as we had completely run out.’

Jo Head, General Manager at Ritson Lodge, said: “Staff, residents and friends of the home all donated very generously to the hamper and it really is heart-warming to see how much people care about helping others who are less fortunate, especially with these difficult times. Thanks to everyone who contributed. It will all be distributed to where it is needed most within our community by the great team at the Gorleston Baptist Church and Great Yarmouth Food Bank."

Ritson Lodge care home in Hopton celebrated the Queen’s birthday in style, also brewing up a storm for National Tea Day on the 21ST April, with a National Virtual Tea Party! Supplied with a tasty selection of biscuits, cakes, and of course, teas for the event, residents of Ritson Lodge also had lots of fun taking part in sessions including tea tasting, high tea, as well as a quiz all about tea!

Here at Ritson Lodge, we wanted to share with you our 'Positivity Board'. This board has been created by the residents and is filled with pictures and letters from families and friends throughout Hopton. It is a real source of positivity for our residents at the moment while they are not able to have visitors to the home. If you would like to get involved, we would be delighted to receive more letters or emails to go onto our Positivity Board!

Activities are going on as usual here at Ritson Lodge - this afternoon we enjoyed some indoor skittles! Playing games like skittles help improve mobility and keep us active.