Activities at Tennyson Wharf Care Home

Staff and residents at Tennyson Wharf Care Home in Burton Waters held a charity coffee morning and bake sale today on Friday 29th September to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Having a coffee morning is the perfect chance to catch up over a cuppa and a slice of something delicious for a great cause. The money raised helps everyone with cancer to live life as fully as they can.

Sunday Mornings give our residents the opportunity to come together in song and prayer. The sound of beautiful voices can be heard filling our cafe and corridors while our residents are singing their favourite hymns. We also have a regular Church Service, the first Thursday of every month, where Nettleham All Saints visit and we have a wonderful afternoon of songs, prayers and communion.

We welcomed the lovely Imogen from Immie’s Beauty Bar who does various beauty treatments including; nails, facials and waxing. Imogen will be with us every Wednesday to improve the wellbeing of the residents.

Residents and staff thoroughly enjoyed being pampered and were very impressed with their new nails, everyone felt very relaxed and content after their treatments.

We were delighted to hold our first memory café this month, residents, family and staff had a wonderful time, residents enjoyed various activities including painting, completing jigsaws and creating sculptures out of sand.

Residents reaped the benefits of chatting and relaxing while having delicious refreshments and cake prepared by the kitchen.

We will be holding our Memory Café every other month, on the second Thursday at 2:30pm it is open for all to come along and meet others who are supporting friends and family living with dementia, or who think a loved one may have dementia.

This month we had our first Fizz@3, we enjoyed socialising with each other while having our favourite tipples. Residents enjoyed chatting and sharing stories with each other. It lifted everyone’s spirits. Our activity coordinator Donna went around the whole home so nobody missed out. We look forward to doing this on the first Wednesday of each month.

We had a fabulous morning visiting the Bomber Command Centre. We spent our time learning about the history of Bomber command, the people who served and remembered all those who died in WWII. We had a peaceful walk around the gardens seeing all the memorial tributes. This was followed by a cup of tea in the café where we reminisced about where we were when the war was declared and the different things they could remember.