Activities at Woodhorn Park Care Home
Activities make up the most important part of all our days at Woodhorn park, so we ensure a variety of social events are available that reflect the interests of all the people we support. In our Memory Lane community, we have group conversations and regularly reminiscence about past experiences, which is something that people living with dementia really enjoy. Many residents love gardening, baking, outings, pet care and gentle exercise, which we provide, along with many other wholesome activities, as it is essential that life at Woodhorn Park is fun and active.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Woodhorn Park Care Home
Birthday celebrations
A busy month for birthdays, another one of our fabulous ladies celebrated today, a huge happy birthday and why not celebrate with two cakes and being serenaded with your friends singing Happy Birthday
International Flower Day
We celebrated international flower day today by crafting, residents painted, weaved and made stain glass flower pictures. Residents enjoyed using the different materials to make their masterpieces.
Climate change
Woodhorn Park care home in Ashington recently received a donation of 10 tree saplings to be planted in their garden through the Climate change scheme which is run by Northumberland County Council. Residents are looking forward to adding their donation of saplings last year.
Christingle
As part of our creative festive activities, we’ve organised a crafts session to make Christingles - a symbolic object, which represents ‘Christ’s light’.
Our residents used oranges, candles, ribbons, sticks holding dried fruit and nuts to create beautiful Christingle decorations, which will be displayed around the home and also distributed to our local community.
Every element of the Christingle is symbolic: the orange represents the world, the red ribbon symbolised the blood of Jesus, the four sticks signify the compass directions and the seasons, the dried fruit are the fruits of the Earth and the lit candle represents Jesus as the light of the world.
National Elf Day
We swapped our uniforms for costumes on National Elf Day in an effort to raise funds to help people living with dementia.
Launched by the Alzheimer’s Society and delivered directly from the North Pole, Elf Day was created to sprinkle some festive cheer on fundraising towards finding a cure for dementia. We were able to enjoy elf-themed games, quizzes and delicious sweet and savoury treats, prepared by our talented chef.
Eyes down and mocktails
A little bit of fun today with Bingo and Mocktails, residents enjoyed a game of bingo with our Anna as bingo caller with tasty mocktails and snacks.
