Activities at Lynde House Care Home
Our Activities Coordinators get a real buzz off their work here as enthusiasm is essential for the role. We decorate and celebrate for all the big annual events, Valentine's Day, Easter, Mothering Sunday and much more. There are also regular fixtures in our activities programme, including bingo, a sherry morning and quizzes, that are always well-attended. There's also an International Day that we hold to celebrate the wonderful ethnic diversity of our staff, where members of our team and their families give up their time to showcase their national costumes, dances and songs. Of course, we also have activities and services tailored to those residents who prefer the quiet life, such manicures or simply a friendly chat and a cup of tea. We always do our best to learn about residents' hobbies and interests and try to arrange our activities programme around their individual likes and dislikes.
Gitana Norvaisiene
Gitana Norvaisiene is our Life Enrichment Coordinator. She oversees and organises all social activities within the home. Although Gitana only recently took up the Coordinators role she was previously a carer at Lynde House. Within her first year she was honoured with being shortlisted at the National Barchester Awards in the category of Activities Coordinator of the year and also won with her team of residents and local school pupils the Barchester In Bloom best Flower display
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Lynde House Care Home
Our George finalist for National Care Accolade!
George Quarshie, Head of Maintenance was selected as a National Finalist in the Ancillary worker of the year for London Region at the Great British Care Awards 2020.
George Quarshie, has been selected for his achievements in; providing the best quality of property and gardens for his residents, hosting the weekly “Cuppa with George” event with residents. This is one of the most popular resident activities where everything from “what’s hitting the headlines” to “years gone by” is discussed. Finally, for the support that George gives to his colleagues and the team in the home.
As the finalist for London Region, George was been invited to attend the ‘virtual’ awards gala ceremony on Friday 30th October where the achievements were celebrated, and the National Winners announced.
Alison McIntosh, General Manager for Lynde House Care Home said: “This award celebrates individuals who have demonstrated outstanding excellence in their work and could not be more dedicated to top-quality care. We are also proud of George for doing so well reaching this stage of the competition and whilst not the National Winner he is for the residents and all his colleagues at Lynde House”.
Winner of our Pumpkin weight competition!
Our Halloween pumpkin was seen all around Lynde House in November and we invited entries to guess its weight to win a shopping voucher. Tony, our resident ambassador was brave enough to draw out the winners name from under the spiders web! Our competition on Facebook had lots of entries and several with the correct 6.0kg so Tony stepped in to make the draw. And the winner was Simon Do, Maintenance Manager! Congratulations Simon, enjoy spending your voucher
Free colouring poster for Remembrance Day
Lynde House care home have created a lovely colouring page for Remembrance Day. It could be coloured in and put in a window or displayed at your children's school or nursery. Great for after school activities and Cubs, Brownies, Scout groups etc. Please feel free share our post on Facebook, @barchesterlyndehouse, with schools and groups that may be interested, for a jpeg copy please email: alison.titheridge@barchester.com or call us for more details. Residents would love to see your creations so do email us a photo!
Residents chose the winning pumpkin!
We held a departmental pumpkin competition today with residents choosing the winner! Our efforts were well rewarded by the comments and laughter by residents at the faces the teams made – they will look great lit up in the garden for the next few days
Autumn Art
Gorgeous colours in our garden this autumn, with our resident's imagination and love for the art it is even better when it comes to the many ways to connect with the nature outside. Everyone was so excited and impatient to finish their very own piece of art.
Lynde House looks beautiful with the boards on display around the home for us all to enjoy
Making our own pasta!
This week we celebrated world pasta day and made fresh pasta in the colours of Italy! Our dining host joined in with residents as the dining room became quite dusted with flour! It was great fun and the finished pasta did look colourful, interesting taste too!
Here at Lynde House residents enjoy weekly baking and cookery preparation activities choosing what they would like to prepare, there is always much laughter and conversation about their kitchen disasters from the past!
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
