NewlandsBarchester Healthcare

Activities at Newlands Care Home

Name: Newlands Care Home
Address: Newlands Park,, Workington, CA14 3NE, GB
Telephone: 01900 358 730

Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.

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.

Read our brochure ‘Life-enriching activities’ for more information about life in our care homes.

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Lyndsey Neen

Activities Coordinator

Lyndsey Neen is in Activities at Newlands Care Centre. She started off as a carer and eventually attended activities. Lyndsey joined the Barchester team in 2009 as a carer.

Lyndsey loves 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, she always puts that into consideration when coming up with activities that can suit each individual. I love my job here at Newlands.

Celebrating life at Newlands Care Home

Burns Night

Our residents enjoyed a heartfelt dinner of Haggis, neeps and tatties. Thereafter they took to the dance floor to enjoy some Scottish music by the charismatic Bailey and Kream Entertainment.

Christmas lunch and shopping

Our residents had a great time visiting Lakes Garden Centre in Cockermouth for some lovely Christmas dinner and shopping. The food was great and everyone enjoyed it. The atmosphere was great with great company. Our gents enjoyed the Christmas shopping experience as they moved around the centre looking for some presents for their loved ones.

They managed to get a few goodies for their loved ones and could not wait wrap them up and send them through in time for Christmas.

National Day of Arts in Care Homes

Our residents get involved in a variety of creative activities. For the National Arts In Care Homes, our residents worked on artworks for their exhibition. This year’s theme was using recycled materials.

For our artwork, we made fairy lights using recycled egg cartons, recycled cotton yarn for the artworks, plastic, tissue paper, clay and many more.

National Housekeeping Week

We would like to recognise, appreciate and say a big thank you to our wonderful housekeeping staff at Newlands, whose hard work and dedication makes a real big difference to the lives of those living here. They are amazing and always do their work with a smile on their face.

They always have time to chat with residents.

Intergenerational fun

Our residents had a great time with a visit from Workington Academy students who came through to spend time with them by playing games (ball games), dominoes and an old-fashioned good chat.

The residents expressed how great it is to spend time with the youngsters talking about yesteryears.

Carols

We were delighted to get a visit from St Johns Church in Workington. Our residents and staff were blessed with some sweet Christmas Carol melodies. It is the season to be jolly.

Christmas party

Our Christmas party was a vibe. Everyone had a jolly good time. Christmas came early at Newlands with great entertainment from Sasha the entertainer, everyone was on their feet. Our residents love music and dance so this was a good time to show their skills.

We would like to thank the Mayor of Workington for his visit and spending time with the residents. Our residents, families and staff had a great time indeed. From all us at Newlands we want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy New year.

Macmillan Fundraiser

A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to our Macmillan Coffee Morning! With your support, we raised an amazing £95.75 from our cake sale for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Our cakes were proudly made by our chefs, Earl and Stella, and Walter (our cheesecake man). Thank you very much for your time and support.

Back to School bank Holiday party

What an amazing bank holiday we had in our lovely garden with beautiful sunny weather for our residents to enjoy. Our theme was “back to school." Our entertainer Jeanette didn't disappoint.

We saw our residents and families dance and sing the afternoon away. A lot of fun was had by all. The food was wonderful.

Beach Party

Our residents and families had a lovely time at our Summer Beach party. There were lots of laughs, dancing and ice cream. Celebrating ice cream day alongside our beach day was a hit with our residents.

Our resident ambassador had a lovely time singing alongside his daughter. He said "this truly made my day."

A visit to the barber

Our gents enjoy going for a visit to the barber.

They always look forward to having a chat with the barber man. The transformation is always incredible.

Christmas cake winners

We are thrilled to announce that our cake won the residents cake for our division. This much-loved annual event invites residents, patients, colleagues and chefs to put their baking skills to the test, competing for the title of the most delicious and creative Christmas-themed cake in their division.

Judged by Barchester’s Hospitality Team, the competition highlights the amazing talent across our care services. The winning cakes captured the spirit of Christmas and were absolutely delicious.

A resident's experience

Our Desmond had the pleasure of visiting Whitehaven to watch his son’s performance.

His son was very thrilled to see him there. Desmond joined in the singing and showed off his vocals. He is an Elvis fan and so when his son came out looking like Elvis and singing Elvis songs, Des was over the moon. It was truly amazing to watch.

Emergency Services Day!

Emergency Services Day is a national day across the UK celebrated in recognition of the NHS and all emergency services.

We would like to express our gratitude to all local emergency services, volunteers and heroes. We showed our appreciation by handing out goodies and sweet treats to our local emergency services!

Wimbledon Celebrations

The day started off with a game of balloon tennis and a lot of fun was had. Later in the day, we had lovely entertainment from Laura, who got all the residents, friends, families and staff singing on top of their lungs.

We can blame it on the primms or the strawberry creams. But either way, a lovely time was had by all.