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
Residents Create a Quiz
Our residents made their own quiz, each resident thought of between 2 and 5 questions to ask I then put them all together to create a quiz. The residents said how much they enjoyed doing this and would like to make it a monthly activity. We then held the quiz the next day and had lots of fun guessing the individuals behind the questions.
Cutest Dog Competition
We joined together with our sister home, The Cedars, and held a 'cutest dog competition'. We sent invites to friends and families and they sent us photos of their dog. Our residents then chose their top 3 and we then swopped photos with The Cedars and their residents marked them out of 3. We added them up and the top 3 were invited to The Cedars, where we had a dog groomer who had donated a free grooming session as the first place pride.
Blooms of Bourne
We received some lovely flowers from Blooms of Bourne. Residents made individual small plant pots up and then made one hanging basket out of them, which looked lovely hanging in the unit. It really cheered the place up with lots of lovely colours.
National Dog Day
We had a lovely working dog in to celebrate National Dog Day. Tally the dog showed us some of her lovely working tricks and showed us what training she had to go through to become a working dog. This included finding the cheese, which all the residents found amazing. They then got to ask as many questions as they liked which most of the residents enjoyed as they learnt a lot more about a working dog’s life.
Friendship Day
Residents made lots of bright cheerful cards to send to our other homes to celebrate Friendship Day!
A Furry Friend
To celebrate Beatrix Potter's birthday, a staff members brought one of her rabbits in for a visit. Residents loved stroking him and watching him play in his pen. While the rabbit was resting, we read some of her stories.
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.
