Activities at North Park Care Home
Our home is always full of life, and we can thank our wonderful Activities Coordinators for this. Dedication to creating a unique and interesting activities programme is what sets us apart from other homes. We always take into consideration that some people would prefer to pursue their own interests, which is why our team strive to incorporative activities that cater to a wide range of tastes and hobbies. Our trips out are always fun and exciting as well, and residents are guaranteed to return with stories to tell their loved ones!
Claire Liddy
Hi, my name is Claire, and I am Lead Activities Coordinator at North Park. I have 15 years’ experience in the role, three years at North Park and absolutely love my job. I like to involve the local community in events within the home, so we have connections with local churches, schools and community groups. We have a PAT dog that visits weekly, so our residents can enjoy pet therapy, and lots of external entertainers, who come into the home regularly as well; in addition to fairs, monthly coffee morning and so much more.
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 North Park Care Home
Ice cream van visit!
Our residents enjoyed a visit from a local ice cream van and it was a perfect day for it! Residents and staff enjoyed 99's with all the toppings and reminisced about memories that came flooding back when our residents heard the vans music. A great time was had by all and we can't wait for the vans next visit!
Dementia Cafe
Our residents and families enjoy our monthly dementia cafes. We talk in depth about dementia and our residents and relatives have a space where they can discuss their experiences over tea and coffee and freshly prepared snacks and cakes. We also welcome the community into our monthly dementia cafes to offer support and advice.
Mexican Fiesta
Our residents recently enjoyed a Mexican Fiesta. In the weeks building up to the event our residents painted Mexican flags and enjoyed setting them up in our reception area to welcome guests. On the day we enjoyed freshly prepared tacos and tequila along with a lot of music, dancing and laughs.
Resident celebrates 90-years young!
Celebrations have been in full swing at North Park Care Home, as one of its residents reaches her 90th birthday in style. Jessie who has resided at North Park for 7 years was joined by staff, relatives, friends and other residents in the lounge where she enjoyed a surprise performance from ‘The travelling ukuleles’ and a home-made birthday cake.
Board games on a rainy day
The bad weather can't stop us from having fun! On this cold and rainy day one of our activities co-ordinators, Linda, planned a fun afternoon in the lounge and set up our board games, puzzles and a painting station for our residents to enjoy.
We take pride in our activities programmes as we know they promote socialisation amongst our residents. Our residents' families also got involved in board games and there was a bit of healthy competition to go around! It was all fun and games.
Pub lunch outing
Two of our residents enjoyed a trip out to our local pub. We try our best to grant all of our residents at least one "wish" using money that is kindly donated to us by the local community and for Paul his was to visit The Brinkburn Pub where he used to visit a lot with his family.
Steve our head of maintenance drove Paul and his friend David, who is another one of our residents, to the pub in our own mini bus. They enjoyed a classic pub lunch and a pint which went down a treat!
Upcoming events
Meeting Room for Hire
Are you looking for a venue? Look no further! North Park is also close to local amenities and not far from the A1.
Could you be a Volunteer?
We recognise the impact a Volunteer can make on the lives of our residents, do you have any spare time? For more information we'd love to hear from you.
Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
Calling all emergency services personnel - police, ambulance and fire services, district nurses - come and take a break on us, there maybe a cake or two available....
