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
Wishing the King a Speedy Recovery
When His Royal Highness, King Charles, shared with the world he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, to raise awareness, our residents wanted to send him their love and best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Residents handmade a special get well soon card to send off to Buckingham Palace.
Yesterday they were absolutely delighted to receive a card of thanks from the King himself
The card was shown around the home to all our residents who were overjoyed to receive his thanks for their efforts.
His majesty said, "This brings you my warmest thanks for your incredibly thoughtful message. It was wonderfully generous of you to take the trouble to write as you did, and your kind words were most uplifting.
Residents were overwhelmed with his kind words.
Anyone for a Mocktail?
As part of nutrition and hydration week we have been promoting the importance of keeping well hydrated with a little holiday theme twist with our Mocktails.
With stripey straws and cocktail umbrellas and a sprig of fruit garnish the home brought the holiday feel into Sherwood Lodge.
From blue lagoons to margaritas our residents couldn't wait to give them a try.
Poor hydration in the elderly can lead to multiple health conditions including deterioration in mental function, enhanced confusion and increase the risk of skin damage and deterioration.
As you can see our residents thoroughly enjoyed them
Mother’s Day tea Party
Happy Mother’s Day to all of our wonderful and much loved mothers!
We have had a lovely day celebrating this special day in our home today with families of our residents.
They have had a beautiful afternoon tea together laid on by our hospitality team.
Mother’s day is a celebration of motherhood and maternal bonds and there was certainly an abundance of love in our home today.
International Women's Day
Here at Sherwood Lodge we would like to say Happy Women’s Day to all the incredible women out there. Today we are celebrating every women’s strength, resilience, and courage. May you feel empowered and appreciated for all that you do every day. Here's to a bright and Beautiful future.
Residents and School Children celebrate World Book Day
Bookshelves are bulging at Sherwood Lodge where book worm residents were keen to get involved in World Book Day. We welcomed children from our local school, Sherwood Primary school to mark the occasion.
Staff and residents at Sherwood Lodge care home decided to invite the local school children along for the afternoon. Everyone got involved by dressing up as characters from their favourite books and reading excerpts to each other. It was wonderful to see the variety of books that everyone was reading, and to listen to all the different topics being discussed.
Emma Powers, the Activities Co-ordinator at the home, commented: “Our residents all love to read and to talk about their favourite books so World Book Day is a fantastic opportunity for us all to spend the afternoon with our noses in our favourite books. Having the children come to visit us made it even more fun, we all loved seeing their costumes.”
Tracy Lyons General Manager, dressed as Cruella de Vil said, “It has been a brilliant afternoon and we have all enjoyed swapping our must-reads. Our residents love getting lost in a good book so they very much enjoyed reading excerpts from their favourite novels and discussing what they love about them. There are so many wonderful books to discover, everyone enjoyed finding out about new titles to put on their reading lists.”
St David's Day
March the 1st is St David's Day celebration of St David's Day ,we're we celebrate the whole of Wales, from music food and daffodils.
Here at Sherwood Lodge we have been enjoying making Welsh cakes and eating them with a cup of tea also listening to Tom Jones and having a dance, we also have been up to arts and crafts making Daffodils.
