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
National Handwriting Day
Our residents enjoyed meeting their intellectual needs by celebrating National Handwriting Day. They were all really engaged and concentrating and all thoroughly enjoyed the handwriting activity sheets, enhancing their learning and development skills.
Golfing Gurus
We learned that a few of our residents used to play golf regularly, and that this was something they missed. We decided to buy a putting mat to see how this would work; residents loved it so now we are looking at how we can make a larger indoor golfing area.
Halloween Dress-Up
For Halloween, we held a competition for the public to send in photos of their children in their Halloween costumes. Residents had lots of fun looking through them all and voting on their favourite.
Remembrance Sunday
Remembrance Sunday was very different this year, but that didn’t stop us; our residents made their own poppies and some to sell in our local shop. We did a wonderful display and we brought one of our residents the special pound to be able to always remember.
Mental Health Day
For Mental Health Day, we had a day full of fun and laughter as we played a variety of games. The residents especially enjoyed the one where they had to throw a ball at the heads of the staff. We also brought McDonald's and some lovely doughnuts for everyone to enjoy.
Harvest Festival Display
Our residents had fun making flower arrangements, salt dough, fruit and vegetables and a great scarecrow for our Harvest Festival display.
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.
