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
Busy gardening
One of our residents helping with the watering of our many flower pots.
Marco the Magician
We had an afternoon of tricks, illusions,balloon modelling, plate spinning and a sing a long with Marco the magician. "How did he do that" was the comment of the afternoon.
Visit to the hairdressers and a shandy in the shade
There's nothing like a nice relaxing day. The day started with a visit to the salon followed by a nice shady in the sunshine.
Back to school
We spent the afternoon reminiscing about our school days as a lot of schools are going "Back to school" this week.
Obviously lots of our residents were at school during the war so we learnt how they coped with being taught during the war. Also who got the cane twice and who use to smoke behind the shed.
Trip to the annual village fete
We took some of our residents into Burwash to visit the annual village fete today. It had a lot of traditional stalls including a dog show which was our favourite to watch.
Belly dancing
We had Carina a local belly dancer from Circle of Sisters Belly Dance come and give us a demonstration of some belly dancing from around the world.
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.
