Activities at White Lodge Care Home

The new year started with pamper session at White Lodge where the ladies queued up for their nails to be done by Shayla.

The activity team tried to give our residents a salon experience by creating a relaxing atmosphere. We played soft music in the background and used lovely scent which made the difference. Everyone enjoyed relaxing and having their nails done whilst sipping on a lovely hot drink.

One of our residents VM said, she used to have her nails done regularly. Now she will not miss it anymore as she will be able to do it here at White Lodge. We are so pleased with how our residents responded to our pamper session. As this was such a success we will do it once a month.

The residents at White Lodge, celebrated new year's eve in advance with a cheese and wine afternoon. The home's New Year’s Eve party kicked off in style with sing-a-long, as resident sang and danced along to some favourite hits from across the decade. Then the party was rounded off with a selection of cheese, biscuits, grapes, crisp and of course wine! Angela, a resident at the home, commented, “It has been such a wonderful afternoon". We all cheers to a year where every day is a tiny celebration of life! Happy New year!

The resident of White Lodge went out in a minibus ride to the Swindon Designer Outlet. We had a lot of fun and captured some beautiful moments along with some shopping. The residents also bought Christmas presents for their families and friends. After the shopping we stopped for a coffee and roamed around the Christmas market!

The residents and the staff celebrated gingerbread house day at White Lodge. We made 2 houses today, one in the Memory lane community and the other in the activity room. We had a lot of fun making the houses, it was quite hard to resist ourselves from eating the parts while building the house. And looking at the end result we are proud of ourselves! The residents decided to keep the houses on the lounge as a decoration as they look fabulous!

The residents and the staff of white lodge care home wore Christmas jumper to celebrate Christmas jumper day.

A local group called pathfinders were kind enough to come to the home and sing Christmas carols to the Residents.

After the performance, the residents said thank you to the group for the performance. The members of the group walked around the room to wish the residents merry Christmas and happy new year.

One of the Residents, said, “It has made my Christmas seeing people singing and joining in as well.”

We received the invitation from Age Wiltshire UK to attend their Christmas concert in Royal Wotton Bassett and decided to attend with few of our residents. Our activity team along with 5 of the residents went to attend Christmas concert by North Swindon band, organised by celebrating age Wiltshire on 5th Dec 2023. One of our residents Ruth found her neighbour on the crowd! Another resident, Kathie found her friend and her milk lady! Kathie went around the whole hall meeting people and introducing herself as she used to work at RWB memorial hall and come to clean the hall every Sunday morning. She was very excited to be back on her known place and was exploring the hall by walking all around. It was an amazing afternoon, singing all the Christmas songs together. While coming back from the concert, Kathie asked the team if we can bring her back again. The team promised her to bring her back for the next event.