Activities at Wimborne Care Home

We brought in the new year with a party filled with dancing, singing, great food and some bubbles. We started the day sharing out highlights of the year we have just had and any goals for the future, many residents aims were just to “keep going”. As we danced the night away we watched firework displays from around the world and reminisced over our favourite new year party’s.

When the sun is shining we are heading out so this time we took a trip to pebble café on the beach. We got all cosy with our warmest coats ready for the sea breeze and enjoy that ocean smell. We all enjoyed velvety smooth hot chocolate from our local café as we sat and shared out beach side stories, many about how the island has changed over the years.

Wimborne was joined by the wonderful Alice from Applewood entertainment who took us through joyful Christmas singing and music fun. All the favourite songs were sung and all the staff family and friends were up dancing with our residents. There was so many smiles and lots of laughter could be heard throughout the home all day really bringing home that this is the most wonderful time of the year.

We joined in the Barchester Christmas cake making competition with our head chef Hayden leading the way with our tree design and our residents hand rolling the red berries for the tree. With the green pouring glaze and our sparkly star donning the top of the tree it really brought our cake to life and everyone enjoyed eating it even more with a glass of mulled wine or two and sharing our Christmas memories.

Seeing all the Christmas decorations, gifts and seeing the hustle and bustle around the shops is all part of the Christmas season. Throughout the month we have been heading out to join in the festive fun but the favourite by far was heading to Keydales garden centre for their Christmas experience seeing living reindeers and their amazing Christmas decorations really transported us into a winter wonderland bringing back lots of memories from Christmas shopping for all their children and their families. 

Wimborne Care Home is known as the musical care home of Hayling Island, everyone in the home is always singing their favourite songs. We then decided to invite in the famous Hayling Huggers to come and perform for our musical residents. We invited in all our friends and family as well as the local communities to enjoy this special performance. They started out singing feel good classics like the Beatles and George Formby which are some favourites here at Wimborne before moving on to some Christmas tunes. One of our residents Joan got to take centre stage to sing her favourite festive song We Wish you a Merry Christmas and this kept her smiling all night long. The Hayling Huggers joined us for homemade Victoria sponge, tea and a chat after their performance. We can’t wait to see them again!