Activities at Wood Grange 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 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.
Ruby-Mae Walker
Hello, my name is Ruby-Mae and I am the activities Co-Ordinator here at Wood Grange.
My background is working in dance education and production as well as experience in the mental health care sector. I am extremely passionate about my role here in promoting life enrichment within the home and I feel privileged to work alongside such amazing people, and to be a part of our residents lives, spending quality time with them on a regular basis. I work alongside Louise to plan and organise daily activities to suit our resident’s needs, Louise and I are very enthusiastic about our roles and the resident’s well-being is always at the forefront of our minds.
I love to dance, keep fit by going to the gym and spending time with family.
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 Wood Grange Care Home
Nurse celebrates 10-years long service
A registered nurse at Wood Grange in Bourne has received a prestigious Long Service Award in celebration of working at Barchester Healthcare for 10 years.
Amanda Clare, now a registered nurse, started at Barchester in March 2014 and has worked with residents and their relatives to ensure that their needs have been met over the years.
Adele Keenan, Employee Services Director at Barchester said: “I’m always pleased to hear stories about the long service of Barchester staff and am delighted Amanda has achieved this milestone. It is dedication like this that ensures our residents are provided with a happy place to live.”
London Ladies
As part of our International Women’s Day celebrations, Residents from across our services were thrilled to join tour guide, Mandy Morrow, for an exciting talk about some Legendary London Ladies.
Mandy shared the fascinating stories of eight ladies with us, from the one of the richest heiresses in the world to the original 'Roaring Girl'.
Everyone who participated truly enjoyed the experience and were delighted to take a walk down memory lane.
Eyes down for bingo bonzana
Across the country our homes and hospitals came together to find out which care home or hospital had the best Bingo players as we teamed up for Barchester’s Bingo Bonanza.
Residents were treated to some exciting virtual games of Bingo as part of Barchester’ very own game show series.
Everyone who participate had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.
Pet Party
Residents enjoyed a visit from furry and non-furry friends who filled the home with joy. Michelle’s Pets are regular visitors to us and we have a surprise every time with a new addition! Residents faces beamed with happiness as they spent quality time with the animals and received a huge amount of comfort, Robina said, “I just love animals, they are so beautiful”
Welcome Square Hole Members
It was great to welcome Square Hole Club members from Dementia Support South Lincs to Wood Grange for lunch and activities. Members together created the most wonderful piece of Valentines themed art.
The group will be meeting every 3rd Thursday of the month, all thanks to MindSpace Stamford.
We enjoyed meeting people from Bourne and look forward to introducing the members to our residents next month.
Chinese New Year Celebrations
Staff and residents at Wood Grange were Inspired by Chinese culture and traditions, lucky red envelopes were exchanged and the home was decorated with hanging red lanterns and balloons. Residents learnt all about the traditions and superstitions of Chinese New Year and enjoyed an oriental meal.
Upcoming events
April
Hello April! As we step into April we are looking forward to a fun filled month ahead and hope you can join us - all welcome.
Looking for a place to host a meeting?
Looking for a place or venue to hold a meeting? For more information on what we have to offer please get in touch.
Volunteers - Could you make a difference?
If you would like to become a volunteer or more information on volunteering, we'd love to hear from you.
Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
Come and take a break on us! Calling all emergency services personnel, district nurses, enjoy a warming drink and slice of cake on your break.
Community Memory Cafe - 2nd Tuesday of the month
Join us at our 'Community Memory Cafe' and meet our highly trained dementia staff who will be on hand to answer any questions you may have from 10.30 am.
