Activities at The Wingfield Care Home

Our ladies really enjoyed a wedding-themed reminiscence session with Sandra from Charmworth Miniatures at the home recently. Residents thoroughly enjoyed traveling through the ages admiring handcrafted miniature wedding gowns ranging from the 1930’s straight through to 2000. 

The session finished off with a little dressing-up fun as residents June, Jean and Patricia donned wedding gowns and veils. It was a lovely afternoon filled with joy and laughter throughout.      

We have had a lovely time at the home celebrating Easter this year. Residents enjoyed lots of sweet treats and time spent together with other residents across the units. Families and friends enjoying afternoon tea and live music. 

The home kindly donated Easter eggs by local business Travail Employment Group and ensured inclusivity across the home purchasing alternatives as required and ensured everyone’s dietary needs were met. It’s important to the home that everyone feels included when celebrating these seasonal events.        

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.     

On Tuesday, Angela held a gardening club. This coincided with National Gardening Day!

This year we are taking part in the sunflower challenge 2026. The residents planted sunflower seeds, got creative with mindful colouring and enjoyed refreshments.

We are looking forward to spending more time in the garden this summer.        

There has been a wonderful sense of anticipation in the home recently as we welcomed a special delivery of eggs ready to hatch. The incubator took pride of place in one of our communal lounges and residents gathered throughout the day to see the first tiny cracks appear. The excitement didn’t end once the chicks hatched and over the following days, residents loved watching them grow and change before they went back to the farm. The home worked in collaboration with ethical egg provider Incredible Eggs based in Cornwall to be able to offer this amazing experience to our residents.

The home also welcomed local preschool, See Saw Nursery and St John’s Primary School children in to meet the chicks during their stay, with us offering valuable intergenerational sessions to our residents. Both animal therapy and intergenerational sessions have been proven to have significant benefits, such as reducing stress and anxiety and supporting emotional health.      

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.    

The home recently had the pleasure of taking part in a trial involving the use of virtual reality in our homes. Our residents absolutely loved using the virtual reality headset to embark on exciting new adventures straight from the comfort of their bed or armchair! With support from staff, residents were able to choose where they wanted to go before being transported to a number of different locations, including National Trust sites, UK Coastlines and farms/zoos. 

Residents in all of our units are engaged in technology, with many exclaiming: “Wow! That was amazing! The picture was so clear I really felt as if I was there”. This technology is particularly beneficial to our residents, who spend a lot of their time in their rooms/beds and are either reluctant or restricted to spend time outdoors or attending regular bus trips/outings with staff.

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!