Activities at Dudwell St Mary Care Home
Our activity coordinator provides our home with a fun-packed weekly programme to engage all residents. Past activities include bread making, pottery, knitting, and card making. Not only do we run regular exercise programmes for the residents but we also have our regular entertainers come in to entertain our residents and their families. The activity coordinator visits residents on a one-to-one basis, for a chat, manicure and hand massage. The activity co-ordinator said "Residents love the one-to-ones and especially enjoy the manicure and hand massage, as not only is it stimulating but it boosts their confidence and pride in their appearance.''
Linda Lawes
My Name is Linda and I am one of the Activities Co-ordinators at Dudwell St. Mary care home.
I joined Dudwell St Mary in April 2008 as a Housekeeping Assistant and later became the Head of Housekeeping. In 2018 I then became an activities co-ordinator where I brought lots of new exciting ideas to the role.
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.
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 Dudwell St Mary Care Home
Piano
This is one of our residents playing our piano in the lounge. We actively encourage a person centered approach and He enjoyed playing to the other residents.
Bopathon
As part of dementia action week, we had a bop-a thon. We got the residents up and dancing to the music which brought a smile to everyone’s faces.
Carpet Boules
At Dudwell St Mary, our residents have become particularly fond of Carpet Boules. It is a very popular game, which we enjoy playing on a weekly basis.
A visit from Rolo the goat
At Dudwell St Mary we have regular visits from PetPals, they bring a wide variety of animals for the residents to meet. Our residents always really look forward to the visits, this time we got to meet Rolo the goat!
Day out
Our residents enjoyed a trip out in the minibus to a local café, where they had lots of fun meeting new people in the community.
Pet Pals
Pet Pals visit us regularly throughout the year. This particular visit they brought us bunnies and chickens. Our resident Hazel enjoyed the company of both.