Activities at Sherwood Lodge Care Home
Our Activities Coordinator is constantly striving to mentally and physically stimulate those we support by organising group and individual activities for anyone and everyone to participate in. We have regular outings in the mini bus to nearby places of interest including local garden centres and parks as well as musicians and entertainers. We also hold bingo evenings which are helped out by our residents families. We also have a local pub nearby which the residents enjoy visiting from time to time for a spot of lunch or sitting in the gardens in the summer time. We try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests as best is possible. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
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 Sherwood Lodge Care Home
Home creates time capsule to remember 2020
Since early this year life has been very different for all the relatives, residents and staff at Sherwood Lodge and at care homes all over. It would be unthinkable if all our trials, tribulations, highs, lows, laughter. Love and sorrow were ever forgotten. At Sherwood Lodge we have found the ideal method to remember, we have created a time capsule to be opened twenty years in the future – 2040. The capsule will be filled with snippets that reflect our lives over 2020.
In twenty years’ time we will be older and a new generation will hopefully having a much better time. The onlookers in 20 years will read our thoughts, learn how we coped and share our grief in the hope that our wonderful relatives, residents and staff can inspire people to overcome any obstacles that life may present.
The time capsule will contain our words and thoughts and items such as photos, badges, rainbows and the awful swabs used for testing for the Covid-19 virus to be revealed in 2040.
The good life!
Residents of Sherwood Lodge have been busy growing their own plants as part of the homes gardening club and life enrichment programme. Residents didn’t let the recent damp weather stop their avid gardeners as they took to the garden to enjoy a rare warmer day.
Residents Barbara, Mary, Ray and Joan planted some seedlings a few weeks ago and decided to take advantage of a rare sunny afternoon to re-pot them. We now have an anxious wait to see what happens – and hopefully identify what plants they are!
Keeping in touch
Residents Brenda and Audrey have received lots of cards and goodwill messages from their loved ones and have been keeping busy as they asked to write back to their friends and relatives. Brenda and Audrey enjoyed writing their cards with a refreshing cup of tea and a slice of home made cake.
International Literacy Day
International Literacy Day takes place on September 8 every year to raise awareness and concern for literacy problems that exist within our own local communities as well as globally. Barbara joined other residents in reading out aloud and discussing their favourite books for National Literacy day.
Play your cards right
Keeping active, having social interactions and being mentally stimulated is very important to Residents at Sherwood Lodge. Marian was crowned ‘Quiz Queen’ and champion ‘play your cards right’ contestant in a recent homes games afternoon.
As part of the homes life enrichment programme, Rob activities coordinator includes firm favourite’s in the homes calendar with fun-filled adapted games that they played over the years in a safe environment!
Meet Socks and Mable
Residents, Dorothy and Marie were so happy to meet Socks the cat and Mable the dog our new pets at Sherwood Lodge. It doesn’t matter that the pets are battery operated they are loved, cuddled and chatted to just like the pets our residents once owned.
It was a joy to our residents faces when the pets whoofed and meowed.
