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
A Winning Streak!
Resident, Terry, challenged Activities Coordinator, Legh-Anna, to a round of traditional games over a cup of tea. Together, they have been playing lots of cards and dominoes. Terry has always loved dominoes, and said he could win any game of dominoes he plays. The challenge was set and, between them, they must play around 15-20 games a week and, as he stated, he has won every single game. Terry’s winning streak continues!
Little Book of Poetry
Words are wonderful and have so much meaning. Resident, Betty, has loved poetry since she was young and has collected many poems and poetry books throughout her life. Betty enjoys reading poetry and listening to others read through them. She has been missing her poetry as of late, so the home has collated a collection of her favourite poems to create a 'Little Book of Poetry' for her to read through with others. She was delighted reading through the pages and seeing all her favourite poems in one place. She can’t wait to share her love of poetry with others over morning refreshments before they talk about what the words meant to them. It’s a great talking point!
Easter Celebrations
Staff and residents at Newlands celebrated the Easter weekend with an egg hunt, egg dump competition and sampling some tasty Easter treats!
As always, we’ve all been looking forward to Easter. It’s such a nice time of the year – the residents love all the colourful Easter eggs and Egg hunting round the home. It’s really been an eggs-cellent day!
Food Bank Cause
Newlands Care Centre have started collections for our local food bank. Residents, relatives, staff and visitors can now donate food within the home to be sent off to the food bank to support our local community. One of the food bank volunteers is also coming to one of our coffee mornings to speak to the residents about how donations are used to make a difference in somebody’s life.
Postcards of Kindness
Residents at Newlands Care Centre, Workington have joined the worldwide ‘Postcards of Kindness’ scheme last week. They have already received their first postcard from Stirlingshire with a lovely letter from the writer. Residents are excited to respond to the sender and start connecting with many others around the world.
Burns Night
Newlands decided to celebrate Burns Night with a traditional supper to the tune of bagpipes and, throughout the evening, sang some of the Rabbie Burns tunes well into the wee small hours!
Residents and staff all got involved with the spirit of Burns Night and enjoyed listening to Scottish music and poems, followed by a supper of traditional haggis, neaps and tatties specially prepared by the Head Chef.
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.
