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
Visit from Animal World
We had Our Amazing Animal World back for their monthly visit, this session was to take the animals to residents rooms. Residents love the interaction and always brings a smile to their faces.
A trip to Merriments
A trip to one of our local garden centre Merriments for a coffee and to browse round the garden centre was just what we needed on a dull Summers day.
Beautiful Sunflowers for our Art Class
Residents had a lovely afternoon painting sunflowers for todays art class. They were all pleasantly surprised at their finished pieces.
No cheating!
Two of our residents enjoying a game of chess with Mason one of our volunteers acting as adjudicator.
Flower arranging
One of our residents favourite activities is flower arranging, as some of them use to do the flowers for church. As you can see they can still make some beautiful arrangements.
A trip to the pub for our Gentleman's club
We took Men's club to a local pub today where we enjoyed a drink and some tasty food.
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.
