Activities at Werrington Lodge Care Home
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.
Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
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 Werrington Lodge Care Home
Glen Miller tribute
One of the cornerstones of our life enrichment program is live musical entertainment. Resident involvement in choosing genres along with feedback after each performance means that we are able to constantly improve our activities calendar.
Our Residents were entertained by Matt Brown a tribute to Glen Miller on his trombone. He played and sang well known tunes made popular by Glen Miller and added some favourites from the Rat pack. The residents joined in with singing, dancing and smiles all around.
At Werrington Lodge that's what we like to do - create memories, and ensure our residents are leading full enriched lives.
Curious Creatures
Animal therapy is one of the cornerstones of our life enrichment program at Werrington Lodge and features regularly on our resident-led weekly activity planner.
Our Residents received a visit from some curious creatures and thoroughly enjoyed the hands on experience. There were smiles all around as they handled the exotic creatures.
Residents at Werrington Lodge love the animal therapy sessions that our dedicated Activities Team organise. As one of the foundations of our Life Enrichment program, we know that animal therapy can help reduce blood pressure and improve overall cardiovascular health.
Elvis at 90
The methods and mediums may change but the heart of live music - the communal joy, the shared emotions, the collective energy - remains untouched.
The King of Rock and Roll would have turned 90 this year on January 8th. To celebrate our Residents enjoyed a trip down memory lane to enjoy some of the greatest hits from our very own King Pete Webb.
At Werrington Lodge that's what we like to do - create memories, and ensure our residents are leading full enriched lives.
Community Engagement
We have welcomed our local constabulary into our home and as they are a regular visitor the residents are used to seeing them and they don’t worry at all in fact they love sitting and chatting to them especially the ladies.
This is our local PCSO Ronnie Durrell he enjoys coming into the home and having a cup of tea with the residents and he has got to know quite a few of them and has built up a good rapport. We had a Crime Scene morning where we had PCSO Ronnie Durrell and Dave Barron who is a retired Forensic Officer from The Cambs Constabulary and we turned the Activitiy Room into a crime scene.
The crime scene was set with a lifeless body covered in a sheet and surrounded by many clues would be evidence markers eg. hair, footprints, finger prints a drinks can and a packet of cigarettes.
Dave talked the residents through the crime scene what to look for at a crime scene and how that evidence is processed to put would be offenders at the scene it was brilliant the residents were asking all sorts of questions and Dave loved the enthusiasm they showed. He told us all about the different fingerprints and how they come about.
Birds of Prey Visit
Werrington Lodge recently had a visit from CJ’s Birds of Prey!
As you can see, the birds were magnificent, and the afternoon proved to be a major success for not only the residents, but we had lovely feedback from friends and relatives who joined us for the afternoon.
It is incredible to see the birds in a wildlife surrounding, but to see them up close and be able to hold them is something else.
The birds they brought were amongst a few: a Snowy Owl who was lovely and didn’t mind resting on our resident’s arm, and an Eagle Owl who was a little more austere.
So we would like to thank CJ’s Birds of Prey for coming and bringing these magnificent birds with them. We thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon!
The residents really enjoy it when we have animal events in the home as they most definitely benefit from handling them and talk about them long after the entertainers have gone.
A visit from Whittlesey Motorcycle Club
We were visited by the Whittlesey Motorcycle Club who brought approximately10 bikes and also a tri car which had been hand built by Tony, the owner, and had taken over 2 years.
Tony took some of the residents around the block in it and they absolutely loved it, one of the residents was telling everyone all about it for days! He loved the photo that he had taken in it which he proudly displays in his room.
The residents loved seeing the shiny motorcycles and speaking to the owners/riders. It was most definitely something different for them and we would like to thank Andy again, and his fellow club members, for taking the time to come out to us and show the residents their machines.
It was very much appreciated and we hope to do it again sometime!
