Activities at Wood Grange Care Home
Our activities team are great at building the activities programme around the likes and interests of the people we care for. Ensuring that our social events offer fun and adventure is part of the ethos of our home; it’s important that those we support can enjoy an active and social lifestyle. Of course, there will always be those who prefer peace and quiet, and in these instances, a cup of tea and a chat are always welcomed.
Ruby-Mae Walker
Hello, my name is Ruby-Mae and I am the activities Co-Ordinator here at Wood Grange.
My background is working in dance education and production as well as experience in the mental health care sector. I am extremely passionate about my role here in promoting life enrichment within the home and I feel privileged to work alongside such amazing people, and to be a part of our residents lives, spending quality time with them on a regular basis. I work alongside Louise to plan and organise daily activities to suit our resident’s needs, Louise and I are very enthusiastic about our roles and the resident’s well-being is always at the forefront of our minds.
I love to dance, keep fit by going to the gym and spending time with family.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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 Wood Grange Care Home
Flower Arranging
On Thursdays, Gosia who is one of our activities coordinators goes to the local Bourne market to purchase flowers. Gosia creates fantastic flower arrangements with our residents, this is always a favourite. Gosia will do a group activity and then take the flowers to residents in their rooms for them to help too. This activity gives great social interaction for our residents as well as using their creative skills.
A visit from Claire Bishop
This month we invited a local artist called Claire Bishop to come into the home to give a painting workshop using water colour paints. Claire was great with the residents, she started off with a group session and then visited some residents in their rooms. She taught our residents to paint poppies by using really simple steps/techniques, and as you can see from the photograph the residents did a great job! Some of our residents are very creative and love doing creative activities like this. We are looking forward to Claire’s visit next month.
Bingo
Our residents really enjoyed a game of Bingo whilst sat in our lovely reception area, which has been decorated with Chinese Lanterns made by our residents to celebrate Chinese New Year. This activity is great for social interaction and can be a real thinking game, but most importantly, its great fun!
Royal Parks London
Across our services our residents have enjoyed a wonderful live virtual talk about starlings, one of the UK’s most gregarious birds, hosted by Rachel Dowse from The Royal Parks London.
Rachel examined our long history with this bird and the importance of common species to our lives. Our residents had the opportunity to find out more about the great murmuration and why we need to pay special attention to these beauties before it's too late.
The virtual experience was truly enjoyed by all.
Christmas Jumper Day
Staff and residents have enjoyed getting festive in their Christmas Jumpers. We also drew our Christmas Raffle. Our raffle managed to raise an amazing £496! We are so pleased to be putting these funds towards our Memory Lane Garden Project.
Christmas Wreath Making
Residents have had a lovely time helping to create a beautiful Christmas Wreath to hang on our home's front door. They also had lots of fun creating some Christmas flower arrangements to display in their rooms.
Upcoming events
Newsletter - Easter Edition
We are delighted to share our latest newsletter - Easter edition.
Memory Cafe
Join us at our 'Memory Cafe' and meet our highly trained dementia staff who will be on hand to answer any questions you may have or just to have a chat.
Looking for a place to host a meeting?
Looking for a place or venue to hold a meeting? For more information on what we have to offer please get in touch.
Volunteers - Could you make a difference?
If you would like to become a volunteer or more information on volunteering, we'd love to hear from you.
Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
Come and take a break on us! Calling all emergency services personnel, district nurses, enjoy a warming drink and slice of cake on your break.
Dementia Support Group
Helping loved ones to connect - 3rd Thursday of the month from 1.15 pm. All welcome.
Gentlemen's Club
Come along and make new friends over a game of dominoes, games and enjoy a drink or two.
Knit and Natter
Are you a knitter? We extend a warm invitation for you to join us at our weekly knit & natter group - Every Thursday from 2.00 pm.
