Activities at Adlington Manor Care Home
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Lynne Bowler
I joined the activities team at Adlington Manor in May 2017. Previously, I have worked as a tree surgeon and have had heavy involvement with the Guides and Brownies. I love participating in activities with residents, whether that's by driving the minibus on trips outside the home, or by engaging in themed days.
I am passionate about my role and especially the challenge of coming up with new ways to engage as many residents as possible in our activities here.
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 Adlington Manor Care Home
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside…
Although we are unable to go on any day trips at the moment, for obvious reasons, we didn’t let that stop us this week. The beautiful forecast was the perfect excuse for a trip to the beach, so we brought the beach to the residents here in our own gardens at Adlington. After slathering on our factor 50, we spent all afternoon outside in the shade of the beautiful pine trees. We started the day off with some fun and games, including bubble making, flip-flop tossing and playing with beach balls.
We only stopped for our delicious picnic lunch, which was freshly prepared by the kitchen. We finished off lunch at the beach in the best way, with Banana Splits all round! In the afternoon, we cooled off by putting our feet in giant paddling pools that had been filled up with nice cool water. We had such a great time that we decided to do it all again the following day!
Royal Correspondence
To celebrate Her Majesty’s 94th birthday back in April, the residents decided that they would like to send The Queen a birthday card. Everybody signed it and filled it with their best wishes for the special day.
A few weeks later, we were very excited to receive a letter with the royal crest on it. Inside, was a reply from Windsor Castle thanking us for our card and assuring us that The Queen had thoroughly enjoyed her birthday.
The residents felt honoured to have got such a special letter, and many of them have decided to have a copy framed so that they can hang it in their bedrooms.
Bank Holiday
To celebrate the bank holiday in May, the residents made bunting to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of VE day. Afterwards we used it to decorate their bedrooms and get us talking about what we remember about the end of the war.
We also made sure to listen to typical songs of the time to help bring back the memories. Although our big VE Day celebration has been postponed, we are looking forward to celebrating it properly with friends and family when we can.
Last week, to mark Bank Holiday Monday, we all got out into the garden to enjoy the bank holiday weather. Our chef, Alfie, set up the BBQ and staff and residents enjoyed a BBQ lunch together. Nothing could be better than a nice, big ice cream for dessert, not to mention a couple of glasses of Pimms to round off the evening.
St Patrick’s Day
We celebrated St Patrick’s Day in style this month. All the staff members got dressed up in their best green outfits and helped the residents get stuck into the celebrations.
We made some Shamrock paper decorations to stick around the home and bring us all some luck. We also spent the morning baking a chocolate and Baileys cakes with a Baileys buttercream.
For lunch, the residents enjoyed a traditional Irish stew with potatoes and cabbage. When the tea trolley went around in the afternoon, in addition to our usual choices we also had Irish coffee, Guinness or a little glass of Baileys on offer. We certainly enjoyed our little afternoon tipple!
Easter Fun
To celebrate Easter this year, we go busy making personalised decorations, which we put up around the home. We also spend the afternoon making chocolate cornflake nests, topped off with some Mini-eggs, which went down a treat.
On Easter Sundays all the residents and staff were visited by the Easter Bunny who was delivering chocolate treats for everyone!
Enjoying the Garden
We have been lucky enough to have had some beautiful weather recently, which was the perfect excuse to get outside into our beautiful gardens.
We had lunch ‘al fresco’, enjoyed a glass of Pimms and lemonade, and spent time walking around the grounds looking at all the beautiful plants and flowers.
