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
VE Day Celebrations
On Friday 8th May the residents got together to wave their flags, sing to their favourite music and watch the red arrows fly past on the TV to celebrate the victory in Europe. They all enjoyed the televised programme with various articles being read and pieces of music being sung, they tapped and hummed along and all wore big smiles as they relived being free.
The activities co-ordinators ensured that the residents all had, if desired, a glass of ‘bubbly’ to raise to the queens speech and a delicious assortment of scones and cakes were provided by the cook Tina.
Each resident had a tale to tell and was delighted to be able to sit amongst fellow residents and share them. At the end of the day they all took their flag and commemorative pin back to their rooms with a big smile.
Dudwell's Centenarian
One of our veteran war heroes celebrated his 100th birthday by having a tea party with fellow residents. He received his telegram from the Queen, which was kindly organised by Rosalyn Everton, who is one of our outstanding care providers that Bill is very fond of. The whole home took time to wish him a happy birthday and help him celebrate just how he wanted.
Residents Local Panto Performance
On Saturday 15th February the residents of Dudwell St Mary care home in Burwash were treated to a visit to the local village hall to see the panto, Beauty and the Beast. They all booed and cheered along with the audience and were delighted when some of the cast joined them for a photo opportunity, realising then that one of them was a member of staff from the home!
Zoolab Visit
We enjoyed a visit from Zoolab, who brought some unusual animals in for the residents to see and hold. First we had a giant snail all the way from Madagascar, then we had a hissing cockroach, then a corn snake which most of the residents either held or touched. Then we had a tarantula to look at then finally a cute little rat to hold.
Everyone was very brave with most residents held most of the animals that were offered.
Dolly the Shetland Pony
We had Dolly the Shetland pony come into our home where she was warmly greeted by our residents, all wanting to stroke Dolly. We were able to take her round for room visits, once they got over the shock of having a pony in their room, everyone loved seeing her.
Halloween
For Halloween, we did some pumpkin carving with residents. It got really messing whilst trying to get all of the seeds and flesh out from the pumpkins.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
