Activities at Lydfords 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.
We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.
Carole Hierons
Hello, my name is Carole and I am the Activities Lead here at Lydfords.
I have worked in this role for many years and I would not to do anything else.
My job is to plan and oversee the amazing life enrichment activities and trips for all of our residents. It is such a rewarding role and I love planning and doing crafts with everyone.
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 Lydfords Care Home
Gardening Club Has Begun
Now the weather is improving and the rain has decided to take a break. We wanted to make the most of it. The opportunity lent itself to be the perfect time to get out in the garden and get on top of weeding and planting.
Our residents love to be outside in the garden as much as possible and there is nothing better than having beautiful flowers to enjoy looking at whilst sitting there with a drink.
Its Quiz Time!!
Burns Night Celebrations
Lydfords care home in East Hoathly prepared a traditional Burns Night Supper to the tune of bagpipes and the fun continued well into the night.
Staff and residents at the home were involved in a number of activities, learning the art of Scottish Country Dancing and the Ceilidh to mark the Scottish institution, including giving the time-honoured address to the ‘Great chieftain O’ the pudding race’ – the haggis.
General Manager, Anthony, at Lydfords, thought it was a perfect occasion to celebrate an evening steeped in age-old tradition as well as getting in a spot of Scotch whisky tasting and reading a selection of Burns’ poems.
Residents take part in Barchester bowling league
Residents at Lydfords care home in East Hoathly recently met up with their sister homes to take part in their monthly bowling league.
Five of Barchester Healthcare homes got together and met at Freedom Leisure in Hailsham to play in their monthly bowling league. Each home had their own team and competed for this month’s winning title. Residents at Lydfords care home enjoyed some friendly competition amongst friends.
This is such a fantastic monthly event that everyone really enjoys taking part in. We always try and think of unique and fun ideas for our residents to do. We are so lucky to have other homes close by to be able to enjoy this with.
Lydfords Shows Thanks To Local Professionals
Team members from Lydfords care home in East Hoathly have been making special deliveries to say thank you to those in the local community.
General Manager, Anthony Butler, Deputy Manager, Ellie West and Home Services Advisor, Sam Harding have been busy visiting local professionals and charities in the community to say thank you for all they do to support everyone. The local GP surgeries received chocolates to enjoy. Whilst the District Nurses received a special delivery of party food so they could all celebrate together.
Another stop was to the local hospitals where they received hampers with a selection of treats for everyone. The team at Lydfords also opened up their home so the TN22 club could have their Christmas Party in the upstairs dining room and lounge.
Anthony, General Manager at Lydfords, said: “We really wanted to say thank you to as many people as possible for all the care and support they provide to the local community and to ourselves. They make such a difference to people’s lives every day, in different ways and we feel it is important to let them know we appreciate them”
Christmas Carols and Mulled Wine
Residents, family and friends had a wonderful afternoon of singing Christmas Carols with mulled wine, followed by the official turning on of the Christmas lights.
Thank you to the Uckfield Mayor, Councillor Karen Bedwell for doing the honours. These are moments we all treasure and get us in the festive spirit.
