Activities at Longueville Court Care Home
Our activities coordinators are committed to organising a variety of activities that reflect the interests and capabilities for everybody we support ensuring a person centred approach.
The team have a flexible approach to our programme and we are constantly reviewing and updating our programmes to ensure we cater for everyone's needs and varied abilities.
The activities programme includes regular trips utilising the homes minibus, these include a number of destinations of local interest. We are particularly proud of the relationship we have built with Peterborough Sailability. This registered charity offers the opportunities to those with restricted mobility to enjoy the thrill of sailing on the open water and the sense of independence that brings in specially adapted boats.
Involvement in the local community is something that the whole team are very passionate about and we provide regular visits to a number of different facilities including local schools and churches. These activities also extend too visits from "Pat dogs" and local entertainers to aid in our ongoing quest to give each individual as much support and stimulation as they require.
Martine Ratcliffe
Hello my name is Martine and I'm the Head of Activities here at Longueville Court. I joined the team in 2009 as a carer and become team leader before moving into the Activities position 3 years ago.
I'm passionate about providing life enrichment to each of our residents, as a team we aim is to bring joy on a daily basis, and make their time with us special. We pride ourselves on bringing a mixture of activities that suit everyone.
I have one daughter and 2 grandsons, when not at work I love to spend time with them making memories, am a massive lover of music and dance.
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 Longueville Court Care Home
Local Garden Centre Donation
A huge THANK YOU to Brierley&Kids the Garden Centre that is on the lay-by in Orton Longueville. I was telling Matty about our Tesco makeover that we won, which is happening tomorrow morning and he donated all these beautiful flowers to our Memory Lane dementia garden.
What a wonderful donation, our garden is going to look fab tomorrow!
Kick Starting Wimbledon
Today at Longueville Court, to kick start the first day of Wimbledon, we played our own version of balloon tennis, the ladies batted the balloon back and forth with Michaella as umpire!
Cookies Making Workshop
Our number one superstore Morrisons invited us to a free cookie decorating workshop, in their new community hub. Natasha & Jade (from Morrisons) helped our residents with ideas for their giant cookies. It was messy project with the icing but such good FUN, they also offered us free refreshments that went down well with our arty creations. These cookies were huge, so we took them back for other residents and staff to enjoy later on with a cuppa. Amazing afternoon with loads of belly laughs. Thank you Morrisons, you do so much for the community, especially our home.
Carers Week
A massive thank you to our wonderful team of carers. Your commitment and loyalty over the last year has been impeccable. You are the back bone of Longueville and we appreciate everything you do for our residents. Thank you again our superb care team. You are simply the best!
Carrot the Pony visits Residents in their rooms
Meet Carrot our lovely 8 year old pony that visited us this afternoon. Thank you Imo & Alison for bringing her in all the way from Ely. What a lovely treat for our residents. Carrot even went into some of residents rooms for some fresh fruit + veg and of course lots of cuddles. We just love seeing beaming faces when we bring the animals in. A sunny afternoon in the garden with chilled cold drinks and parsnips for Carrot.
Longueville Court wins Tesco Makeover Competition
We received an email to say that the finance team at Welwyn Garden City would provide some volunteers to do a makeover at our home. They wanted to do something for the local community. The email said if this is something we would like to be involved in. Could we give our reasons as to why we should be put forward and they would throw it in the pot to see if it was a goer. We then sent them an email with all the pros as to why we should win the bid. Well we won! So Tesco brought in 15 volunteers to do a makeover in our dementia community. The volunteers came within a 2 hour radius of Peterborough and they stayed for 6 hours.
We spoke to Morrison’s and told them what was happening, & they decided to provide us with all the bulbs for the garden. Plus our local nursery Briery & kids have donated literally a truck full of flowers for the planting areas. Our garden looks awesome as you can see.
