Activities at Lanercost House Care Home
Our dedicated Activities Coordinators offer a wide range of mentally and physically stimulating activities for residents and families to enjoy. There are regular outings in the minibus to places of interest, such as local cafes, garden centres and parks, as well as visits from entertainers, musicians and singers - and also from PAT dogs. We host various events, such as themed days, cheese & wine evenings, in addition to offering one-to-one activity sessions, including pampering, games and puzzles. Our activities staff strive to ensure residents participate in any way they can with activities that reflect their capabilities and interests.
Emily Stubbs
I joined the Lanercost House family in June 2021 as a Care Assistant and then joined the activities team in May 2022.
I love bringing joy and fun to residents, relatives, and staff on a daily basis as well as planning and organising themed days, events, and celebrations.
I think the activities’ role is very important for Residents' well-being. Whether they like to keep active with armchair exercises, join in with our weekly quiz or hop in the minibus for a day out - there is something for everyone. I aim to ensure that each Resident's interests and hobbies are supported.
I am passionate about creative and sensory activities and I love to sing and dance together with Residents. I love my job!
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 Lanercost House Care Home
The Music Man
Here at Lanercost House we like to ensure that our residents can continue with their hobbies and interests, past and present and for one Resident, it was music. The homes activities coordinator brought in a guitar and we had ‘the music man’ as he played for everyone some of his favourite songs. With a family steeped in musical history and members that are luthiers, this brought back many fond memories for him and to everyone else it was a joy to listen to him play.
Love is in the air
Love was in the air at Lanercost House as our residents enjoying a valentine’s themed baking session. We made delicious cupcakes which were served during our Afternoon tea and we had a wonderful time decorating them with pink icing and red hearts. Residents shared their fond memories of past valentine’s and the most romantic gestures which they had received.
Year of the Ox
Residents enjoyed a fun-filled day of themed activities as they celebrated the Chinese New Year as they brought in the year of the Ox. There was plenty to do for everyone from quizzes, puzzle sheets, watching the traditional Dragon dance and learning new phrases in Mandarin for ‘Hello and Goodbye’ before settling back to enjoy a Chinese themed lunch especially prepared by the homes hospitality team.
Ladies get floral on International Flower Day
The ladies at Lanercost thoroughly enjoyed showing off their green fingers this week to celebrate International Flower day. Flowers were sourced from a local florist, and the ladies soon got busy with creating their wonderful colourful creations to have on display throughout the home. The bright and colourful additions lifted everyone’s mood on a cold, wet day.
Residents enjoy games afternoon
Residents of Lanercost enjoy a varied life enrichment programme tailored to their individual interests, hobbies and needs and a number of Residents joined a socially distanced games afternoon as they showed their competitive sides during a games afternoon. Residents enjoy their time together and socialising with each other whilst refreshments and a delicious slice of home-made cake is served.
Keeping active together!
Residents enjoy keeping active together in their popular weekly armchair exercises, each session is great fun and interactive. It's the perfect way to keep moving and have some socialisation. The staff enjoy taking part in these sessions too, this is encouraging for our residents and results in all round fun for everyone!
This week the session was themed to ‘disco music’ and much to everyone’s delight they ended with some impromptu disco dancing, The fun and laughter was a great tonic to the day and leaving everyone in high spirits and looking forward to the next session.
Upcoming events
Carers Cafe
Come along and meet with friends over light refreshments and gain support from others caring for someone living with dementia.
