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
Helping our homeless
Our local charity Hebburn helps have chosen Bedewell for their gift sponsor this year. Our residents will receive gifts from the kind people of Hebburn. We wanted as a home to celebrate national kindness day with a collection for the homeless. We collected warm items , toiletries and sweet snacks to fill our gift bags.
Brenda and Anne had a trip up to Hebburn helps centre where we dropped off our gifts and we were shown around the centre.
Remembrance Sunday
We joined Hebburn parade at the park and cemetery.
George is a veteran and wore his medals with pride whilst Ruby shared memories of being an evacuee, Both our residents were emotional and expressed how important it is to remember those that we lost. The cemetery was dressed in poppies and the displays were beautiful.
Care Home Choir
We have teamed up with our sister homes Springvale and Harton Grange to practice songs with the care home choir in the hope of joining up with other choir members to perform for the public. Our residents have enjoyed dancing and singing and have thoroughly enjoyed the visits from Nicky and Liz who run the choir.
Bob's Birthday Meal
We celebrated Bobs birthday with a romantic meal for him and his wife Agnes. our lovely residents both live here at Bedewell grange and enjoyed choosing from their menu whilst singing along to Cliff Richard. They celebrated with a glass of bubbly and said it was nice to feel so special.
Teaming up with Hen Power and Equal Arts
Bedewell have had some new additions to the family in our hens who our residents named Margaret, Freddie,Lucy and Suzie. Everyone was excited to meet our new pets and they have settled in well. WE will be working with equal arts who are an ageing charity supporting older people living with dementia. Equal arts offer creative opportunities to help improve people’s wellbeing. We are excited for our upcoming projects.
Party Time
We enjoy monthly entertainers here at Bedewell grange. This month we were joined by the power house voice of Sam Naylor. Sam always gets the party started with her mix of music from Elvis to Doris Day. There was lots of dancing and James enjoyed being serenaded by Sam.
Upcoming events
May
May is the gateway to summer and we have a fun filled month ahead and we hope you can join us - all welcome.
Newsletter - Spring edition
We are delighted to share our latest newsletter - Spring edition and we look forward to keeping you informed of 'What's on'
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.
