Activities at The Wingfield Care Home

What great photos from our recent live entertainment from Justin, it really was wonderful to see so many residents dancing, swaying, tapping and singing along to the music! It was such a great atmosphere.

It was a lovely Mother's Day here at The Wingfield, it was very busy with visitors and we were so pleased so many could join their loved ones for our delicious Mother's Day Afternoon Tea.  It is so important that our residents can celebrate important events with their family.

Chess is a game of strategy thinking ahead to future moves all the time so no wonder this game with Len and Pilery looks serious. It is so important that residents at The Wingfield continue with their interests and we are fortunate to have a chess player on the team!

The Wingfield General Manager, Annie and the team went out today to deliver Blue Light Breakfasts. These were very well received including by the team from the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.

 We know how hard all our emergency services work and often there isn't time for a break, so this was an opportunity to say thank you. The Wingfield's doors are always open to the Wiltshire emergency services to call in for a comfort break and refreshments.

Today we welcomed Fred from The Wiltshire Bee Keeper who gave a talk all about the lifecycle of a bee. It was so interesting to hear all about these amazing insects. Fred also bought along a selection of the many products that are made from the bees as of course the delicious local honey.

The amazing Wingfield team have made another resident's wish come true.   Resident, John Williams has such fond memories of going out with the horse and cart to deliver milk as a child he asked the team if he could go and visit some shire horses. Tracey Page, the Head of Maintenance arranged for a visit to Radford Shires near Bath. Tracey said “It is so heart-warming to make a resident’s dream come true. Thank you so much to Tracey and Collin who own Radford Shires for their time and the kindness shown to John, it has been such a special experience for us all.”

John, recalled is memories of working on the milk floats “I lived in Quinton, Birmingham and can remember at 4 years old I would go out to see Dennis the driver of the cart and his horse Roger when they made their deliveries. I was desperate to go out on the round and Dennis said if you come to the dairy at 4am you can come out with me. I don’t think he expected me to get up so early, but I woke my mum the next day and she took me to the yard; from that day I went out regularly with Dennis until I was 11, only stopping as the old dairy closed and electric milk floats came in. I can remember being given 6 pence for helping. Roger was such an incredible horse and I have loved shire horses ever since”

John described the experience, “I am so grateful to the team here at The Wingfield for arranging this trip just for me. It really has bought back so many memories and I was so happy to be up close to a shire horse again. I felt so emotional when at the end of the visit Tracey and Colin presented me with a photo to keep, thank you so much for everything”.