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.
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 Marple Dale Care Home
Time to Accumulate the Accumulator!
The Marple Dale residents are really loving playing the Oomph Accumulator Quiz. So much so, we’ve made it into an Accumulation of the Accumulator. By recording the results of each quiz we play we will have, at the end of the year an Accumulators Grand 3rd, 2nd and1st Prize Winner!!
We’re up to quiz 5 so far, completing 1 each week. The residents totally love the idea that anyone can win on any week. It’s refreshing to have new weekly 3rd, 2nd and 1st place winners each time we play.
In particular Moira and Theresa are keen quizzers along with Eileen and Joyce. It always good to see them competing at the quizzes and other gaming competitions too. More recently Peter decided to come along too and it was great to chat with his wife about what he had been doing during the times she can’t be at the home with him.
All of the engagement at the quiz keeps our minds working and fresh too. It works really well and helps to balance out mind activities alongside the exercise sessions we also run.
A Spooktacular Welcome!
It was great to invite and welcome guests from the Norris Green Community Centre and more specifically their Friday Club. We are beginning to reach out into our community to build bridges and develop life enrichment.
It was a fabulous afternoon/evening where we had had lots of spooky snacks, treats and drinks as well as some fun games and music.
The Fox and Hounds Lounge was decorated by our residents supported by the Activities Team and it looked ‘magical’!! As you can see fancy dress and funny hats and head bands were the order of the day, with everyone joining in. Some residents even agreed to having their faces painted with halloween designs. Carol and her husband Richard fully joined in and had matching spiders painted on their cheeks…. Spooky!!!
Both Joyce and Beryl thoroughly enjoyed dressing up as witches and casing their spells, Beryl even went as far as to chop Lou’s head off!!!
Chocolate and Fruit
On Friday 20th October some residents approached the deputy manager to say there wasn’t much interest in the planned Oomph session and could they have a face to face activity instead.
They suggested a repeat of the activity that took place on World Chocolate Day and how much they loved it.
The Deputy Manager acted quickly to meet the request and put together an interactive quiz, platters of fruit, small cakes, chocolates and treats for the residents to enjoy.
The session ran for 2.5 hours and with teams of mixed ability and knowledge, some good friendships were formed and many many laughs were had.
The final scores were too close tell who had really won, so all were declared winners with the prize……...???
Another afternoon of chocolate and fruit on Monday 23rd of course. This time there were more residents. All dietary needs were accommodated too including a glass of wine or two.
Autumnal Crafting
We have been embracing the autumn and coming winter months at Marple Dale by doing some crafting. We have had a number of sessions where all are welcome to come along and try out some new skills.
Moira, Theresa , Sarah, Sharon and Kerry sat together helping each other out making some Halloween Decorations for our party and some Autumn Maple Leaf flowers for the vases in the Activity Lounge.
These activities brought together mixed ages and abilities of Marple residents.
Some have use of only 1 hand, and you could really see them supporting each other to do the best crafting they could.
To take the time to carefully and accurately glue, with hot glue guns was a great achievement and the end results are displayed in our Activities Lounge.
We can’t wait to do some more crafty things for our Christmas displays and a local church Christmas Tree Decoration Competition.
A day full of luck
Trip to Southport Botanical Gardens.
Theresa, one of our Marple Dale residents asked to go on a day trip to the Southport Botanical, to bring back some fond memories and fun form her earlier years.
We made the best of a beautiful day’s weather and the Fish and Chip Shop we found close by. The staff there were brilliant and couldn’t do enough for us.
John, Theresa, Lynn and Sarah enjoyed the best chippy meal they have had in a long time!
At the gardens we engaged with other visitors, who shared some bread with us so we could feed the ducks, swans, geese and pigeons. The bird keeper in the aviary brought over one of the parrots so we could get a closer look, and John made a new doggy friend.
All this topped off with drinks and ice cream in the cafe. A great day out had by all.
Marple Dale Residents “Sock it to ‘em!”
Oomph Move With Stephan
At Maple Dale we love the Move with Stephan Session on Oomph TV. We enjoy getting moving and keeping in shape!
A regular attendee is our lovely Beryl, who really admires her big brother. He stands by the saying 'if you don't move it you lose it’. Beryl has always exercised and the sessions help her to continue, giving her something to talk to her brother during their visits.
Kerry also regularly visits the session. She is building up strength with physiotherapy and Oomph to use her new walker. Her physiotherapists have commented that she is doing well and this extra exercise really helps.
We always make sure we don’t overdo it and that we have plenty of drinks to hand to keep hydrated.
We send Stephan live chat messages too, we all think he does a great job and really wakes us up on a Tuesday morning!
