Activities at Bedewell Grange 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.
Donna Brooks
My Name is Donna. I am the activities co-ordinator at Bedewell Grange care home Hebburn. I joined Bedewell Grange in April 2022 and I bring lots of new exciting ideas to the role, having worked in the health and social care sector for the last 15 years. I am passionate about my role within the home and aim to bring a smile to all our residents faces through different types of activities. My personality is bright and bubbly so aim to share this each day at work. I have experience in supporting our residents who are more able as well as doing sensory Namaste sessions with our residents who are less able. As I gather the residents likes and dislikes if you would like to come and chat with me about your family member please contact the home to arrange.
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 Bedewell Grange Care Home
Visit from Discovery zoo
We enjoyed a visit from discovery zoo learning about the different animals . Twiggy the Malaysian stick insect was a big hit with one of our ladies who has friends in Malaysia and couldn’t wait to tell them she had held in on her arm. The tortoise name was Flash and our residents were intrigues by him eating a huge chunk of tomato. The favourite was the long haired Guinea pig who got lots of cuddles.
Exercise class
We enjoy keeping active with exercise and dance. Starting with a warm up we did our movements along to music from Abba. Our residents follow the movements with ease and some of our ladies took to the floor as they were enjoying the music so much.
Our session finished with stretches and a cool down.
D Day celebrations
We celebrated the 80th anniversary of D – Day joining our local social club and veterans for a remembrance parade followed by refreshments and entertainment from Wor Vera who had our ladies singing and dancing along to all the songs bringing back sad and happy memories.
We were so lucky to receive the invite as our ladies had such a fantastic afternoon.
Home visit Hebburn Tri Station
Staff from Bedewell took a visit to Hebburn Tri Station to welcome the emergency services to the local community with freshly baked croissants and gift bags.
Bedewell Grange offers a Blue light breakfast for all emergency service workers in the area, weekly every Tuesday from 07:30 – 10:30 am providing a hot cup of coffee or tea and continental breakfast.
Wonders of the ocean
Residents across our services enjoyed a fantastic virtual tour of The Deep, an award-winning aquarium in Hull.
Our residents dived into the underwater world of some fascinating creatures such as sharks, turtles and stingrays.
It was a truly immersive and educational experience that brought the wonders of the ocean right to our screens.
VE Day celebrations
We set up our own street party with lots of cakes and treats whilst singing along to songs such as knees up mother brown, it’s a long way to Tipperary which our residents took to the floor and danced along to.
Stories were shared of the sad and happy times that were had and the joy of the celebration of the end of World war 2 .
Upcoming events
Blue Light Breakfast
If you are part of the Emergency Services or Community District Nurses, we extend a very warm welcome for you to join us - Every Tuesday from 7.30 am - 10.00 am.
Volunteers - Could you make a difference?
Do you have any spare time and could make a difference? If so, we'd love to hear from you.
