Activities at Newlands Care Home
Activities within our home are tailored around the requests of residents. Our Activities Coordinator holds regular activity meetings to seek new thoughts and ideas. The home is committed to offering a varied range of activities for all residents, from hand and nail care to gardening for those who have green fingers. We carry out reminiscence activities, including planned entertainment days, bringing the seaside into the home or dance hall meetings.
We hold strong links with the community, especially schools and local children's sports teams, who visit the home to provide entertainment and engagement with residents. We also maintain relationships with the church to ensure that residents’ spiritual beliefs are met. Externally, we have our own minibus, and outings are planned and carried out, again tailored to residents’ preferences, whether it be shopping, visits to the local pub, tea and coffee afternoons, or a scenic day out in the lakes and lovely countryside that surrounds us. However, the fun does not stop at the residents we care for, but we also hold events to involve family and the wider community.
Hlabekile Nyoni (Nayoni)
Hlabekile Nyoni known by everyone as "Nayoni" is the Activities Co-Ordinator at Newlands Care Centre as of December 2023. Hlabekile joined the Barchester team in August 2023 on a part time basis then later became fulltime at the end of December 2023.
"Nayoni" says, ‘ I love sharing my ideas and knowledge to make residents life at Newlands enjoyable and memorable for them and their families. Each day is a different day and each resident is different therefore I always put that into consideration when coming up with activities that can suit each individual. I am so glad to work with a great team throughout the home, from housekeeping, clinical, care, kitchen, maintenance, admin and managers all play a pivotal role in my work. With my strong artistic background I find it easier to come up with creative ideas. I love my job here at Newlands.
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 Newlands Care Home
Local schools share a little festive cheer
Residents were delighted to receive a bundle of colourful Christmas cards hand-created and written by the children from local schools who sent them into the home as their shared a little festive cheer. Residents of the home enjoy their intergenerational links with the community and continue to forge relationships during this time with many virtual activities and look forward to welcoming them into the home in the near future.
Home receive sweet gift from relative
Residents and staff at Newlands were delighted to receive an unusual gift, a bin full of treats – Quality Street – enough to satisfy any chocolate lover. The generous gift was from a family member wishing to say thank you for all their hard work and commitment during 2020 and keeping their loved ones safe. Everyone at Newlands would like to say a huge ‘Thank you’
Bonfire celebrations
Everyone flocked to their windows to watch the amazing fireworks from a beloved British tradition. Residents enjoyed seeing all the different fireworks and “ooo’d & awww’d” in delight. The evening was finished off with some mouth-watering hot dogs & onions, bonfire night cupcakes and some warming got chocolate. It was a fun-filled evening for all.
Residents enjoy a bewitching afternoon
Residents and colleagues enjoyed a lovely afternoon judging the homes virtual Halloween competition. Everyone listened to some Halloween music, ate delicious home-made treats provided by the homes hospitality team before finishing the afternoon watching ‘ Hocus Pocus’. Everyone loved seeing the children dressed up in their Halloween costumes!
Home honour the fallen
Newlands Care Centre in Workington has been busy preparing to commemorate Remembrance Sunday on 9th November, and will be joining the rest of the United Kingdom in holding a two-minute silence at 11.00 am.
The home has been decorated inside and out with displays of knitted and crocheted poppies which have made by various staff and members of the pubic, silent soldiers and various flags which were erected by a member of staff and volunteers in the homes grounds. Local firm Numech Engineering have loaned the lights for the outside display and Jewson’s supplied the wood for the frames that the flags were mounted on.
Residents celebrate Harvest Festival
The whole home came together to create a wonderful display, showcasing what harvest means to us here in Cumbria. Residents got together beforehand to discuss their own memories of harvest and their church services in the past. We discussed the importance of a fall colour scheme; orange, brown, red etc.
The kitchen baked some wonderful breads and made some salt dough for the residents. Residents then got to making vegetables and bread roll shapes out of the dough for the display. We also chose several vegetables to join our display and residents were supported by the Activities Team to create the display. Everyone loves the display and always stop to look at it on their way 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.
