Activities at Wadhurst Manor Care Home
On a weekly basis we have many visitors to the home from the people like the University of the Third age and local small animal farms, who bring in their chickens and sheep. We also like to go out shopping and on day trips to local garden centres and when the weather is good picnics and tours of the beautiful local countryside. We have speciality days at the home which could be a theme of a country, or for specific times of year, including Halloween, Bonfire Night or Christmas. We have card games and art classes and a serious knitting team in the home who produce blankets and premature baby clothes for the local maternity unit.
Sarah Smith
I have worked at Wadhurst Manor in many different roles since December 2011. Prior to this I worked as a nurse, exercise teacher and and preschool supervisor. I have 4 lovely children who are now grown up and travelling the world. My hobbies include visiting my children, singing, dancing, hiking, mountain biking, skiing, reading and amateur dramatics.I find enabling residents to remain active and engaged both physically and mentally is a wonderfully rewarding job. I particularly enjoy working on our memory lane units becoming immersed in their realities, enabling them to live their best lives by concentrating on what they can do not what they can't.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Wadhurst Manor Care Home
Pamper Day
As the hairdresser is unable to come to us at the moment its all hands on deck to make sure our ladies are still being pampered. One of our carers has now doubled up as the in house hairdresser. There is no end to our staff's talents.
Creative new pastimes.
Our resident ambassador is not one to sit around, he loves to be busy, so he has taken to making these lovely string bags whilst indoors at the moment. Armed with lots of string and the sun on his back he is a happy man. He is perfecting his new art and then plans to share his talent with the rest of the home. We are hoping to make lots of them so when the community market starts again in the village we can head down there and sell our wares.
Simple Pleasures
A cup of tea, sunshine, some delicious cake and a good friend to have a natter with, is sometimes all it takes to have a really good day.
Spring Flower Delivery
As the local florist had to close their doors. They wanted to brighten our residents day with a bunch of beautiful spring time daffodils for everyone's room. They really did make everyone smile.
Letters of love
We have such a lovely community, all the children at our local primary school were so keen to make sure our residents are not lonely at this time, so they each took time to write letters, poems even funny face pictures and send them to us. We have really enjoyed reading them all. We will be responding to them too. New friendships to be made for sure.
Scrabble afternoon
We spent a lovely afternoon, drinking tea, eating delicious homemade cake and playing scrabble. It does get quite competitive but these two are still the residing champions. There will be many more chances over the coming weeks to challenge them though.
Upcoming events
A Taste Of Wadhurst Manor
Sample some of the delicous and high quality food our residents get to enjoy!
Friday Social
Join us on the 4th Friday of each month for live entertainment and freshly baked cakes
