Activities at The Wingfield Care Home

Residents enjoyed a very special animal handling session at the home recently with Melissa from Creature Cuddles. Melissa brought in a vast array of different animals for everyone to see and was on hand to answer everyone’s questions and teach us lots of new interesting facts! 

Residents particularly enjoyed cuddles with Pomeranian Tia and there were some mixed opinions on the Giant African Millipede, with only a few of our residents feeling brave enough to hold it!     

We have been making the most of the lovely weather we have been having and spending more time out in our beautiful gardens.

Our Magnolia and Cherry Blossom trees have bloomed beautifully this year and residents loved taking part in a little still life drawing and watercolour painting.    

We had a lovely morning in Bath recently, exploring the city centre and being shown around by our resident guides, Mavis and Gill. Both Mavis and Gill previously worked and lived in Bath and were eager to show us around. Wrapped up warm, we enjoyed everything this beautiful city had to offer. 

From fantastic music to delicious pastries! Admiring the stunning Georgian architecture, we made our way round top attractions such as Bath Abbey, Guildhall Market and Pulteney Weir before sitting down for a well-deserved cuppa!    

We have had so much fun dancing the afternoon away! 

Joy and laughter filled the room as we also celebrated one of our lovely ladies birthdays; Happy Birthday, Muriel.

We are proud to offer this event on a monthly basis and welcome anyone to come along and boogie with us. Thanks again to Steve from Retro DJ for putting on such a great afternoon, providing us with both great music and lights! 

Today several of our gentleman residents enjoyed a trip out to local pub The Red Admiral and residents Paddy, Roy and Roy's wife joined us. Paddy and Roy both enjoyed a pint of beer and as requested Paddy's favourite salt and vinegar crisps.

A really enjoyable morning playing a few games of pool, chatting and watching the snooker on the television. It's given us lots of ideas about how we can revamp our bar lounge 'The Wingfield Arms' on our Forget Me Not unit - watch this space.

We had a fantastic time at the home celebrating St Patrick’s Day this year. Residents enjoyed a special ‘luck of the Irish’ lucky dip in the morning followed by an afternoon of Irish music, Guinness and ‘Shamrock Smoothie’ tasting.    

We had the pleasure of granting resident Jennifer’s wish. Everyone that knows Jen would have heard her stories of the great memories she has dancing to the old rock ‘n’ roll music at Trowbridge Town Hall when she was a young woman. In Jen’s own words: “Those were the days!”

We were able to grant Jen’s wish to go back to Trowbridge Town Hall dancing when Age UK hosted a daytime disco there recently. Jen couldn’t believe it when we said we were taking her back to the Town Hall and had a fantastic time singing and dancing the afternoon away with staff and a close friend and resident from the home.        

We were super busy in the lead up to Valentine’s Day crafting and making decorations ready for the big day. We had a lovely week sharing stories and memories with our residents about their loved ones – significant others, family and friends. Lots of our residents shared their wedding photographs with us and reminisced about memories made with family. It was really important that everyone felt included. Residents had lots of fun taking photos with our new handmade photo prop and making cards for loved ones.

On the day, we celebrated with a delicious lunch with loved ones, followed by an afternoon performance by the very talented violinist Sue Lord.     

Our Employee of the Month Award goes to our lovely Activities Coordinator, Chloe!

Chloe always gives her best in making sure our residents have an array of activities that bring joy to all. From fantastic bus trips to all of our themed events. Chloes hard work doesnt go unnoticed and is a highly valued member of staff here at Wingfield.

We had such a lovely day at the home celebrating Christmas this year.

A truly special day filled with joy, laughter and festive magic. Celebrations kicked off with a surprise visit from Santa delivering presents to everyone, followed by a traditional Christmas lunch  and an afternoon of Christmas movies, mulled wine and mince pies.

A heart-warming celebration that reminded us what Christmas is all about - togetherness, kindness and sharing those special moments as we were joined by lots of family and friends for the day.

A big thank you to Santa who has been visiting the home on Christmas day for many years now and to all the staff that helped make this day so memorable.

We had a lovely time recently flower arranging on our Forget Me Not unit. 

The room was full of joy as we created beautiful flower arrangements and enjoyed singing along to a medley of songs together.   

We had a fantastic time ice-skating at Better, Link Centre in Swindon recently! Wrapped up warm residents braved the cold and happily made laps around the rink with staff. 

Resident Keith who had never been ice-skating before particularly enjoyed it and said: “Today has been one of the best days of my life, I will never forget it. It’s things like this that are great for the old ticker!”

We had the pleasure of having the incredibly talented Elvis tribute artist Harry James join us at the home for an afternoon of 1950’s/60’s rock ‘n’ roll music, lively dancing and guitar playing. Residents thoroughly enjoyed meeting the young star Harry and reminiscing on happy memories from their youth. 

Harry made genuine connections with everyone at the event and ensured everyone felt included as he went round and interacted with everyone there. Harry also made room visits to some of our residents around the home, big Elvis fans that were unable to make it to the show. Spending valuable time with them chatting and offering personal serenades of their favourite songs.    

We've had so much fun on our Forget Me Not unit today celebrating the New Year! Drinks were flowing and everyone was up on their feet singing and dancing!

We ended the party with a countdown and singing the traditional 'Auld Lang Syne' together. The perfect way to welcome the new year in together.

Lillie aged 11 generously made cards for each and everyone of our residents at the home and also some of our staff too! It was a real pleasure to welcome her into our home recently, accompanied by Dad, as she insisted she handed them out individually and met all of our residents. Our residents were incredibly grateful for Lillie's generosity and the time she took making so many cards! 

Thank you so  much Lillie, we really hope you enjoy your gift.