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
Employee of the Month - February
Residents and staff applauded as care assistant, Juan Colcol, was named ‘Employee of the Month’.
Jonny was nominated by residents, colleagues and residents’ relatives who felt he really deserved extra recognition for the amazing work he does every day. Jonny was congratulated by the home’s Clinical lead Soraia for the achievement and was presented with a £25 voucher as a special thank you.
Happiness, General Manager said: “Jonny is such a caring and friendly member of the team. He goes above and beyond his job description everyday. Jonny is flexible and always willing to help in a crisis, whether as a care assistant or in the kitchen as the chef. He always works to the same high standard, he never appears to falter! We are very lucky to have him here as part of our team”.
Easter Cake Compeition
The resident bakers got stuck in designing our entry into the Barchester Easter Cake Competition. We decided that a traditional cake wasn’t imaginative enough so we made an Easter pavlova with lemon curd, cream filling and with chocolate eggs on top. They had a great time piping the sticky meringue mixture into little nests! Some of the chocolate eggs didn’t make it onto the pavlova though as we couldn’t help but sneakily eat a few!
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.
