Activities at Leonard Lodge Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
Our activities team offer a wide range of social events, from the very popular Friday morning bingo, to gentle exercise sessions, skittles, regular animal visits and arts & crafts sessions. We are fortunate to have a team of volunteers who stop by weekly to provide additional support, allowing residents the opportunity for one-to-one sessions. These sessions could include anything, even something as simple as playing a game of Scrabble or just having a cup of tea and a chat. We believe that it is essential to support people in such a way that they are able to continue to live full and happy lives doing the things that they enjoy.
Lynn Amiri
My name is Lynn and I lead the Activities Team here at Leonard Lodge.
Since working at Leonard Lodge I have dedicated myself to ensuring that each of our residents can continue to partake in the hobbies that they have enjoyed for years. It is important that all of the residents here have access to life enriching, fun and social activities.
The whole home supports my team and I to organise activities, events and entertainment tailored to every residents preferences, abilities and needs. Each year we have a fantastically full calendar, and we look forward to the future when we can invite the families of residents to join us in the home again.
I am married with two children and two rather annoying rescue cats. I lived in Italy for a number of years and love all Italian food, especially when somebody else cooks it for me! I love to read, especially crime novels. I am a regular theatre goer with a passion for musicals. I like to sing and dance (albeit badly!).
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 Leonard Lodge Care Home
Summer Party
We had perfect weather for our summer party. We enjoyed a delicious buffet provided by our kitchen team including sandwiches, sausage rolls, spring rolls, crisps and cakes. We had great entertainment provided by singer Tracey Lea. Tracey sang a mixture of hits from the 1950s and 1960s as well as a medley of classic sing along songs finishing off with the okie cokie which we all joined in with. We all had a fantastic afternoon.
Summer Fete & Classic Car Show
After previously cancelling our car show due to the awful weather we decided to combine it with our summer fete and it proved to be a great decision.
Many thanks to South East Vintage & Classic Vehicle Club for their continued support. Also to our great stall holders: Carol, Sabrina, Kerry and her daughter, Michael and Iris, John and Angel, Remus Horse Sanctuary, and Mandy a trustee of SNAP.
Thank you to Deb and Joy for the great singing, and to Deb for staying on longer as we were having such a good time and to Joy, who had to leave to attend her own 40th birthday party! Thank you to Bennets for the loan of their ice cream cart and providing the ice cream.
Thank you to those who donated raffle prizes and to everyone who bought raffle tickets and attended on the day. We raised £214 for SNAP.
At Leonard Lodge we love hosting events that we can open up to our relatives, friends and the wider community. Life at Leonard Lodge is about being part of the local community and enjoying life long hobbies whilst also exploring new adventures.
Lake Meadows Visit
We had our first visit to Lake Meadows Park this year. We walked round the lake and looked at the beautiful gardens including one full of germaniums, a rhododendron walk and a sensory garden. We followed up with a visit to the cafe where we enjoyed drinks and ice creams. Despite an overcast sky when we left home, by the time we got to the park the sun was out and it was very hot and we had to sit in the shade to enjoy our ice-creams. We all agreed that sometimes the simply things near home are the best.
Fundraising Event
We attended a fundraising event at St Peters Church in Hutton in aid of their Daily Bread Cafe and foodbank which supports local people, providing not just food but help and support in other areas as well. We have close links with St Peters. We already support their foodbank, provide hampers for their Christmas appeal, they conduct our monthly church service and their attached primary school visits us. Therefore when we heard that they were holding a fundraising event we thought it would be a lovely idea to attend and show our support. We played bingo, which one of our lucky residents won and joined in a singalong with BGT semi-finalist Bethan Marshall. We had a great afternoon and it was all in a good cause.
Get Barchester Moving
Barchester Get Moving inspired us to organise a sports day afternoon of fun. We started off with egg and spoon races with residents racing against residents and staff against staff. Then we paired up a staff member with a resident for team races and then we did wheelchair races. Later we played ball games for those that didn't want to race and finished off with pin the tail on the donkey. We had an afternoon of fun, laughter and getting fit.
D-Day
We celebrated the 80th anniversary of D-Day with tea, cake and the songs of Dame Vera Lynn. Residents shared their memories of the day, including Rosemary who was a 14 year old school girl and remembers lining up at school and the news being passed down the line and being happy and excited at the thought that this could be the beginning of the end. There were also more sombre memories for some residents of brothers and fathers lost in the conflict, but there was also lots of singing and flag waving to honour the bravery of those men.
