Activities at Lawton Rise Care Home

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Lawton Rise care home love any excuse to get creative so when they found out it was Gingerbread House Day on December 12, they didn’t need any persuading to get cracking!

The staff and residents asked the homes hospitality team to whip up a big batch of gingerbread for them and then got busy decorating with icing, buttercream, marshmallows, dolly mixture, candy canes and edible glitter to make some of the glitziest gingerbread houses in town.

Residents enjoyed celebrating this year’s Children in Need by creating home-made banners of Pudsey bear and decorating mouth-watching Pudsey inspired cakes to enjoy with their cup of tea.

The Residents had so much fun and to round off the day were served an especially prepared buffet and selection of cakes. A fun day was had by all!

We always honour our fallen soldiers here at Lawton Rise, on Remembrance Sunday we did that by singing old war time songs, Vera Lynn is always a favourite and we made our own poppy’s in our arts and crafts session! We observed the two minute silence watching the remembrance day parade and we feel it is very important to pay our respects on a day like Remembrance Sunday.

Residents and staff enjoyed Bonfire night this year, with their popular annual fireworks display in the homes garden with sparklers and hot chocolate with marshmallows and every lounge was full of treats! The residents had so much fun wrapping up warm and going into the garden once it was dark to watch the display, the evening brought back many happy memories of bonfire nights they had growing up and they all said how much they enjoyed themselves!

The fun and laughter has continued at Lawton Rise care home, in Goldenhill, Stoke on Trent as residents recently enjoyed zoom calls, virtual bingo and talent shows with a community link NCS, NCS is a programme through Stoke City Football Club and local colleges, which sees young adults deliver a ‘social action’ project regarding health and social care. Also we have recently enjoyed our Halloween party, usual weekly activities such as movie magic and skype phone calls with our families.

Lawton rise have a very close bond with many in the local community, and during these tough times they haven’t been able to do anything with their links or local community, so once the restrictions were eased they couldn’t think of anything better to do than get their local community back involved by creating a ‘Prosecco and Afternoon Tea Drive Thru’ Fundraiser!

Everything was socially distanced and staff wore PPE, once they had purchased they left through their one way system and it all worked a treat! Friends family and the local community came to support them to raise funds for the dance floor we wanted fitting and with their amazing generosity it was achieved!