Activities at Marple Dale Care Home
Activities are the cornerstone of a wholesome home experience and our Activities Coordinators are always putting their creative minds to the test by organising new and exciting social events for residents to partake in. Of course, we take into account the likes and dislikes of those we support, so if someone doesn’t feel like trying something new, there will always be something on offer to reflect their personal interests. For the people who may just prefer some peace and quiet instead, we also offer one-to-one time that can be enjoyed with a nice cup of coffee or just a simple chat – whatever they desire.
Lewis Timperley
Hi, my name is Lewis. I joined the team in September 2021 as a general assistant and then moved to the activities team in January 2022. Most recently I became Activities Team Leader in December 2023, it has been a great journey here at Marple Dale and can’t wait to continue. I love my role as one of the homes Activity Coordinators, and love finding out new and exciting ways to engage residents with activities and each other.
Here at Marple Dale we try to do as many different activities as we can, to keep our residents as active as possible, as it is so important to keep active. I love what I do and love knowing that our residents have so much enjoyment from such a wide variety of activities.
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 Marple Dale Care Home
Home donates to food bank for Harvest
Residents and staff members at Marple Dale celebrated the Harvest Festival by donating a food hamper to a local charity and gift bags for the elderly in their local community in Marple.
The occasion was also marked with making their own autumn harvest display which really helped everyone at the home get into the spirit of the festival.
The Harvest Festival is a celebration of food grown on land and, traditionally, a time for families and communities to get together and bring food to the less fortunate. It dates back to the fifth century, where it was common for the harvest season to be celebrated with a huge feast – and from then the tradition grew and evolved.
Residents show creativity on World Card Day
Saturday 3rd October was World Card Making Day. We receive cards on special occasions, holidays and birthdays, they sit upon our mantle piece, and some of them are stored for precious memories. Whether it’s Christmas or our Birthday, cards are a special way to let someone know you’re thinking of them.
Residents at Marple Dale celebrated World Card Making Day by exploring their creativity and with a little support from the homes activities team hosted a card making morning and sent their handmade cards to their relatives. They also sent them some lovely photos of the things they have been doing during activities at Marple Dale over the last few weeks.
Residents knit for local hospital
Residents at Marple Dale care centre joined in the big knit and brought the homes keen knitters together to create little blankets for the homes local hospital, Stepping Hill and will be donating the colourful small blankets to the pre-mature baby unit. The ladies thoroughly enjoyed the small group activity to create something for such a worthy cause
'Latte' fun for Residents at Macmillan Coffee Morning
Staff and residents at Marple Dale held a charity coffee morning to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Marple Dales’s coffee morning was a big success – they managed to raise £100.00 and, most importantly, everyone had a lot of fun doing it!
The British charity provides financial aid, specialist healthcare services, and all different kinds of support to those living with cancer. The purpose of the coffee morning is to sit down with your friends and catch up with a nice cuppa for a good cause. The money raised will help Macmillan make sure no one has to face cancer alone. Carer, Charlie was delighted to receive a bottle of prosecco for her winning cake.
Rachel McKinney General Manager said: “Holding our own Macmillan coffee morning has been a huge amount of fun and everyone at the home is always keen to support this fantastic charity in any way we can. We are very glad to be able to do our bit to raise further awareness and money for the charity.”
Residents enjoy 'blooming' afternoon
Residents of Maple Dale enjoyed an afternoon of flower arranging to help decorate their home with late summertime blooms. Everyone enjoyed assorting the flowers to create beautiful arrangements in various vases while having a catch-up over a cup of tea.
Clare Burke, activities coordinator at Marple Dale, said: “Everyone really enjoyed the flower arranging activity. Our home looks and smells even lovelier now the beautiful blooms are on display and we have many residents who are green-fingered and find these sessions therapeutic.”
Residents enjoy story-telling
Marple Dale had a treat in store for their resident bookworms on September 13th as residents all joined in to celebrate to stories written by Roald Dahl.
Residents at Marple dale care Centre celebrated some of the most cherished and well known Roald Dahl stories by joining in by reading the story ‘We’re going on a treasure hunt’ to the local day nursery in Marple virtually. They also made some Golden coins for the children to do their own treasure hunt at their nursery and gave them the book to go with it for their nursery teacher to read out aloud. Residents continued the afternoon watching Charlie and the chocolate factory before a short story and found out some interesting facts about the great author, Roald Dahl.
