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
Drinks Trolley
Our Woodside arms drinks trolley is a firm favourite resident looking forward to the trolley coming around there rooms and offering them glass on wine and a gin tonic and many more.
Garden Time
We had a nice activities session afternoon we have a walk around our grounds and on our travels we found one of our pear trees with pick to wash and give to the kitchen so we could have pears and cream for tea.
Norwich city community sports foundation
We had a visit here at Woodside from the Norwich city community sports foundation. The Norwich city community sports foundation delivers the national citizen service to students from schools across Norfolk as part of the NCS the service provides young people ages between 15-17 with the opportunity to take part in residential camps and volunteering project and they choose us to help with our garden project and the young group took walk around our home and meet the resident and was even time for a game of bingo.
Meet Stephanie
A few months ago, Stephanie was due to have a hip operation and was just starting to think about finding a place for some respite care while she recovered, when she received a flyer for one of our open days “ it must be fate “she though, so she got in touch and booked to stay with us. During her month long stay, Stephanie built up such a great rapport, with the staff and her fellow resident, she now comes in ones a week to help Sam on activities.
Bird Feeder
Here at Woodside the resident like nothing better than spending time out side in the fresh air filling up all the bird feeder!
Wroxham
We really enjoy our mini bus outings. We had a lovely trip to Wroxham, we sat by the river to watch the boats go past. We enjoyed chips in paper and a refreshing drink of Shandy too!
