Activities at Hazel Lodge Care Home
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Sonia Teixeira
I am thrilled to be part of the team at ‘Hazel Lodge’ and to use the large range of experience I have from within the care sector.
As the Activities co-ordinator I have a real passion for promoting individual well-being and life enrichment and work closely with residents and their families, planning activities and events that they would like to participate in.
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 Hazel Lodge Care Home
Firework Night
Our residents enjoyed a fun evening celebrating Bonfire night with jacket spuds , sizzling sausages and sparklers. The evening was topped off with live music from Andy Mace and a chance to warm up with some hot moves on the dance floor.
Silver Sunday - Celebrating older Persons Day
We celebrated Silver Sunday 2023 with some fabulous entertainment from Steven Dunnett followed by a delicious afternoon tea . People from the community were invited in to join the celebrations and with the sun shining everyone was able to make the most of our lovely gardens.
Macmillan Coffee Morning
Big Thank you to everyone who came along to our MacMillan Coffee morning in September , it was lovely to see residents, staff and visitors all enjoying a slice of cake for such a great cause. With your help we managed to raise a grand total of £76.85 !
Charity Donation- Warming up the Homeless
We were really pleased to be able to present Ann from Warming Up the Homeless with a cheque for £314.14 which was raised by the Hazel Lodge team at their Summer Fete back at the end of July . The donation was presented by resident Stewart and Sonia from our Activities team who were thrilled to be able to support this local charity.
Harvest Festival
We had a lovely time celebrating Harvest Festival by reminiscing about days gone by and for some of the residents, bringing in the harvest , driving tractors and the traditional hop-picking which brought families from London to Kent and Sussex in September . Although, the days of staying in hopper huts has passed the art of harvesting the hops is passed down through the generations and some of these families still come every year to help with the harvest .
Also , in true tradition we asked for food items to be donated which will be distributed to local people in need .
Tractor Run Comes to Hazel Lodge
What an amazing morning we had when the tractor run came to Hazel Lodge . Residents enjoyed chatting about the different tractors and reminiscing about days on the farm, helping to plough the fields and potato picking in autumn.
Carol had fond memories of driving her Massey Ferguson tractor on her farm and we even managed to persuade Caroline our General Manager to have a go in the Hazel Lodge car park !
Upcoming events
Community Cafe
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.
