Activities at Woodside House Care Home
Activities at Woodside House
Our activities team deliver a wide variety of mentally and physically stimulating activities and events for those we support, including coffee afternoons, which we hold every month for the local community, regular outings in our minibus, and visits from entertainers and musicians. Monthly resident meetings help us to ensure that those living here are getting the most out of our activities programme, and that our social events reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible. From growing our own vegetables to making giant paper-mâché animals, there is always something fun going on at Woodside House.
Sam Lake
My name is Sam and I lead our Activities Team at Woodside House.
I have been at Woodside House since 2004 and I love it here. I am responsible for ensuring that the residents are able to participate in sociable, fun and rewarding activities. My team and I are very passionate about our work and love putting smiles on the residents' faces.
We involve the residents in the planning of our activity calendars and encourage residents to continue with the hobbies that they have enjoyed throughout their lives. We will support every resident to try new things and we love learning from our residents every day.
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 Woodside House Care Home
National Beer Day
We Celebrated National Beer day with a selection off beer and wine with cheese and biscuits, which residents really enjoyed.
National Biscuit Day
Here at Woodside, we celebrated National Biscuit Day with selection off our favourite biscuits and some delicious strawberries whilst sitting in the garden enjoying the view with cup of tea or two.
Hawaiian Day
We celebrated a Hawaiian-themed party here at Woodside House. We wanted our residents to have fun and smile in this difficult times. The event was enjoyed by all, with the bright decorations and delicious fruit cocktails and hula music.
VE Day Celebrations
We celebrated VE Day with a lovely afternoon tea party that was enjoyed by all. We all had so much fun listening to the Red Arrows display and enjoying a cake or 2.
Showing Our Appreciation
Residents wanted to show appreciation to the NHS and care workers and all key workers by creating a poster. It was a lovely morning fill of laughing and smiles throughout.
Messages of Kindness
We had a nice surprise at the end of last week when we received a letter out of the blue from a relative of one of our former residents. Enclosed were some lovely Disney postcards from the resident's personal collection, and the relative had written some motivational messages on them to be spread around the home for the staff and residents.
