Activities at Wimborne Care Home

Our activities team are great at building the activities programme around the likes and interests of the people we care for. Ensuring that our social events offer fun and adventure is part of the ethos of our home; it’s important that those we support can enjoy an active and social lifestyle. Of course, there will always be those who prefer peace and quiet, and in these instances, a cup of tea and a chat are always welcomed.

Enriching life
Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Zoe Freeman

Lead Activities Coordinator

I have been working in care since 2019 and love the industry. I came from working on cruise ships and running events and activities there which has set me up to be a successful activities coordinator in care. You will never see me without a smile on my face and always bring my fun and bubbly personality to my job. My favourite part of my job is making people cheerful  and help make their wishes come true to show people that age is just a number and we can have fun no matter what!

Life-encriching activities booklet

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 Wimborne Care Home

Quiz Night

Also this month, we’ve been putting our knowledge to the test with our Quiz afternoons! We celebrated National New York day by seeing how much we really knew about The Big Apple and learning some crazy facts about the city that never sleeps. It was a really lovely way to get together, reminisce with some travel stories and get just a little bit competitive!

Singing!

This month has been all about SINGING! We started off our month with the very talented Rustyn George playing for us and getting us dancing first thing in the morning! Our residents here at Wimborne absolutely adore music, it brings them so much joy. We have a few very talented singers amongst us and we have regularly been getting together in our Community Choir to sing some of our all-time favourites, from Elvis to the Beatles, and even trying to find our way to Amarillo, we have thoroughly enjoyed getting the karaoke machine out and sharing in our love of music.

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Gardening

This summer the residents have been out in the garden getting their hands dirty. This season we grew our own tomatoes which went down a treat in the salads. At the Wimborne we love to support are residents interests and hobbies.

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Baking

Baking club is always very popular not only in baking the food but eating it too! Here are some of our favourites recipes we have made, cookies, chocolate cake, jam tarts and blueberry muffins. Even our head chef like to burrow our recipes.

Summer Fete

The Wimborne Fete was a lovely afternoon of sunshine filled with smiles, laughter, ice cream, shopping  and great music. The residents had a great time listening to the amazing Hayling Huggers and talented Matt O’Neil, lots of their favourite songs were played. It was lovely to see so many family and friends turn up to celebrate with us.

Wimbledon

We had the most wonderful afternoon for the Ladies Final at Wimbledon. Our residents celebrated this with lots of bubbles and local strawberries and cream.