Activities at Wood Grange 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.
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.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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
Halloween Dress-Up
For Halloween, we held a competition for the public to send in photos of their children in their Halloween costumes. Residents had lots of fun looking through them all and voting on their favourite.
Remembrance Sunday
Remembrance Sunday was very different this year, but that didn’t stop us; our residents made their own poppies and some to sell in our local shop. We did a wonderful display and we brought one of our residents the special pound to be able to always remember.
Mental Health Day
For Mental Health Day, we had a day full of fun and laughter as we played a variety of games. The residents especially enjoyed the one where they had to throw a ball at the heads of the staff. We also brought McDonald's and some lovely doughnuts for everyone to enjoy.
Harvest Festival Display
Our residents had fun making flower arrangements, salt dough, fruit and vegetables and a great scarecrow for our Harvest Festival display.
Residents Create a Quiz
Our residents made their own quiz, each resident thought of between 2 and 5 questions to ask I then put them all together to create a quiz. The residents said how much they enjoyed doing this and would like to make it a monthly activity. We then held the quiz the next day and had lots of fun guessing the individuals behind the questions.
Cutest Dog Competition
We joined together with our sister home, The Cedars, and held a 'cutest dog competition'. We sent invites to friends and families and they sent us photos of their dog. Our residents then chose their top 3 and we then swopped photos with The Cedars and their residents marked them out of 3. We added them up and the top 3 were invited to The Cedars, where we had a dog groomer who had donated a free grooming session as the first place pride.
Upcoming events
November
The leaves are falling, and November is calling. Check out our upcoming activities for the month.
Countdown to Christmas
Counting down the days to Christmas with a fun filled month ahead - 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.
Memory Cafe
Join us at our 'Memory Cafe' and meet our highly trained dementia staff who will be on hand to answer any questions you may have or just to have a chat.
