Activities at Corrina Lodge Care Home

Yesterday we had a wonderful day really enjoying the  joys of our garden.

As part of our Life Enrichment  sessions we are passionate about  the positive benefits that gardening and nature can  have on our overall  wellbeing. 

We wanted to share that feeling of nurturing and enjoying something grow. So with that in mind we started operation sunflower.

We ended up with over 70 sturdy  sunflowers which we've grown in our gardening club. As we had ended up with so many residents thought it would be a lovely idea to see if any of our local community would like one. All we asked is that they send us a photo of their sunflowers when they’ve grown so we can enjoy seeing them.

So we popped a table up out the front of Corrina Lodge with hope that our local community would give one a home and it worked, at the end of the day all our sunflowers had found a new home.

Mission accomplished!

Another successful supper club with some delicious home baked apple turnovers baked by our lovely residents which were put on the evenings supper menu. They looked and tasted amazing with a strong 10/10 verdict from the Corrina Community . Delicious!! On next week's supper menu we have cheese straws. 

Our Supper Club is always well attended and residents thoroughly  enjoy sharing their tried and tested recipes and expertise.

Corrina Lodge are proud to congratulate Sharon and Rosie from the Activities Team on recently running Brighton Marathon together to raise funds for two charities that are incredibly close to their hearts, Pancreatic Cancer and The Brain Charity. 

Rosie only recently took up running and this was both Sharon and Rosie’s first ever marathon which has been an incredible journey for them. They crossed the finish line together and have been overwhelmed with all the support and encouragement they’ve received from residents, their families and staff. 

During this journey it’s been wonderful to share training stories with residents and to find out about some of their amazing sporting achievements, which include marathons, cross country, sky diving and tennis, to name but a few. This has been really inspiring and we look forward to supporting residents to reconnect with some of these hobbies.

We were so grateful to welcome back Jules and her amazing team at GROHE Limited who so kindly gave up their time again today to spend time with residents gardening, enjoying some games and sharing a chat and a laugh. We planted a lot of seeds ready for the summer, including sunflowers and sweet peas. We are excited to nurture them and enjoy them in our lovely garden. We are looking forward to welcoming the team back in July.

What am incredible afternoon we had welcoming Katie and her fantastic Tap About Town Show to our Corrina Community. Katie brings so much warmth and charm with her, not to mention incredible talent. We were all mesmerised by her wonderful tap dancing show. Dancing, singing and laughter filled the home. Thank you Katie, we very much look forward to welcoming her back to help celebrate our Kings Coronation Celebrations.

The Corrina Lodge Community are proud to be part of the wider community. To acknowledge National Nutrition and Hydration Week, Debbie Twinn, our lovely Customer Relationship Manager delivered goodie bags containing home-baked shortbread and water bottles (plus a few extra treats) to local domiciliary care agencies Watershed Care Services and Helping Hands, whose teams dedicate themselves to caring for our seniors in our Community, to encourage them to take care of themselves too.