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
10/10 Result for home!
Staff and residents at Woodhorn Park Care Home in Ashington are celebrating their recent 10/10 score on carehome.co.uk from 45 customer reviews on the ratings website.
Carehome.co.uk is the leading UK Care Home review website with 17,609 Care Homes, 16 million+ visits per year and 191,088 Care Home reviews. Residents and relatives share honest reviews out of ten for their experience of care homes throughout the country which then produce a median score overall for the home or service.
Currently out of the 100 care services in the Northumberland area rated on the website, only Woodhorn Park has a score of 10/10, meaning the home is ranked the best in the area for the quality of the services it provides.
Mother's Day
Residents at Barchester Healthcare’s Woodhorn Park care home, celebrated Mother’s Day with an afternoon tea party and video calls with the family. The home was beautifully decorated with fresh flowers and bunting for the occasion.
Staff at Woodhorn Park arranged small gifts for every resident, afternoon tea, discussion about how the role of the mother has changed, reminiscences about the residents’ childhood.
Senior General Manager, Julie Bond said: “We’ve all had a really lovely day. Although Mother’s Day has had to be a bit different this year, our mums have had video calls with family/we have made good use of our visiting suite to make sure lots of our residents had a visit with their loved ones.”
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Bookshelves are bulging at Woodhorn Park care home where book worm residents were keen to get involved in World Book Day.
Staff and residents at Woodhorn Park care home decided to host a discussion about residents’ favourite books and dress up as characters from favourite books with a debate tablets vs print books.
Julie Bond, Senior General Manager at the home, said: “It has been a brilliant day and we have all enjoyed swapping our must-reads. Our residents love getting lost in a good book so they very much enjoyed reading excerpts from their favourite novels and discussing what they love them. There are so many wonderful books to discover, everyone enjoyed finding out about new titles to put on their reading lists.”
Big-hearted community
Woodhorn Park has received an abundance of gifts from their local community and brought delight to the residents, from Justine at Body Shop at home who collected and made some beautiful hand sanitiser gift sets for the team including our favourite chocolate. Gail from Co-Op providing Valentine’s bunting and decorations for our visiting suite and Andrea from ASDA donated some fabulous cupcakes for our Valentines couples and residents to enjoy. Love was definitely in the air and everyone at Woodhorn Park would like to say a massive thank you to the wonderful support from their local community.
Generous community donates Dolls House
Both our residents and the team are absolutely delighted with the generosity of the local community. A beautiful Dolls house has been donated to Woodhorn Park for our residents to enjoy, this was then followed by another generous donation of furniture for the doll’s house.
It is sitting very proudly within our Memory Lane Community taking pride of place. It is an absolute delight to hear our ladies reminiscing about their children’s dolls house’s and the gentleman talking about the intricate carving of making the furniture for the house’s from pieces of wood lying around
National Nest Box Week
Woodhorn Park in Ashington is marking National Nest Box Week by creating and installing nest boxes in their garden to help support the local bird population.
National Nest Box Week takes place each year from Feb 14-21 to encourage everyone to put up nest boxes in their local area to promote the conservation of our breeding birds and wildlife. Garden songbirds can struggle to find suitable nesting holes and cavities if there are a lack of mature trees in the area.
Staff and residents at Woodhorn Park have been finding out about what materials to use to make a good nest box and what plants and shrubs make the best nesting materials.
