Activities at Wimborne Care Home

GOOD AS NEW CLOTHES SALE

Our residents enjoyed helping to organise clothes and other items that had been kindly donated to us. Residents and visitors enjoyed choosing items to purchase whilst staff members modelled some of the items, which brought much laughter. The sale finished with all enjoying refreshments and homemade cakes. 

On Saturday 6th of July our residents were joined by staff and their families also visitors to Wimborne, where they enjoyed a lovely 'Old Time Music Hall' play with some well-known songs from the old time music hall such as Don’t Dilly Dally, Roll out the Barrel, Pack up your troubles.

Everyone enjoyed participating by wearing sparkly hats and feather boas, dancing and doing hand movements. We all had a very enjoyable evening and look forward to Tickled Pinks to return in the autumn.

In July we welcomed the Sunbeams, father and daughter duo who are positioned locally in Hayling Island. They delighted everyone with a selection of songs from well-known artists such as Elvis Presley, Tom Jones and Patsy Cline, Cliff Richard.

Our residents enjoyed singing along and dancing. They both had lovely voices and the father played the guitar very well. We had a very enjoyable evening and we are looking forward to their next visit at Wimborne. 

Local organisation, the Hayling Legends Classic Car Club very kindly donated their time to spend the afternoon with our residents at Wimborne and to show all of the classic cars. John, one of the residents, particularly enjoyed the classic Triumph Spitfire whilst reminiscing over a cup of coffee in the garden, along with chatting to the club member, who shared the same love of cars with character.

They are an inclusive club welcoming all 4, 3 and 2 wheel motorised vehicles, this includes vintage, veteran, classics, American, customs, replicas, kit cars and also Military. The Hayling Legends Classic Car Club have agreed to come and visit us on a regular basis, as its lovely to see our gentlemen residents really enjoying themselves whilst inspecting the classic cars.

National Care Home Open Day is now in its 7th year. This year’s theme is celebrating the role of Arts in care. It encourages all homes to open their doors to celebrate a different theme each year, with a few key values at its heart; friendship, making connections and celebrating older and vulnerable people.

Here at Wimborne, we had a fantastic day celebrating the role of art in care. Joy came along and created a beautiful display, showing a selection of all her hand made cards that were available to purchase. Joy also held a quick workshop for all residents who also wished to create their own hand made cards. After lunch, residents took advantage of the glorious sunshine and sat outside in the gardens to design their own bird boxes, which are to be displayed in our newly decked garden.

Throughout the day our wonderful staff were on hand to provide show rounds of our beautiful home and talk about the wonderful services we provide. The day was thoroughly enjoyed by all residents, staff, relatives and visitors, and we are all looking forward to holding next year’s open day.  

Resident, Mona, has always enjoyed listening to jazz music, and regularly attends live events with her friends and husband. Mona invited fellow resident, Margo, who shares this passion, and they both danced the evening away at the Haying Island Community Centre whilst listening to swing jazz featuring Chi Jazz.

They both thoroughly enjoyed the night and Mona commented on how she is forever grateful, as it brought back many happy memories for her.