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.
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 Lynde House Care Home
A Bit of Pampering
Who knew that our staff here at Lynde House were so talented and can put their hands to anything, including hairdressing? Over the past few days, Ruth, one of our Care Practitioners, has been shampooing, setting and blow-drying residents' hair.
Cupcake Day
Some Lynde House residents spent a joyful few hours baking, decorating and consuming cupcakes for National Cupcake Day.
National Beer Day
Lynde House residents celebrated National Beer Day last week with a beer and some pizza. It was thoroughly enjoyable!
Quiz with the Mayor
Some residents took part in a Zoom quiz with the Mayor of Richmond recently. By way of a 'thank you', every participant received a lovely box of chocolates and a tie-pin engraved with the mayoral crest.
Knitting Fun
A little but of knitting went a long way here at Lynde House!
Game Time
With the change in the weather, we changed location for a bit of exercise. Thankfully, our lovely lounge is big enough to enjoy a game of carpet skittles whilst social distancing!
