Activities at Woodhorn Park Care Home

Woodhorn Park care home, in Ashington was full of animal mischief on 5th May 2022 when Roxy the Lamb and Baxter the Dog came to visit the home. Residents at Woodhorn Park were pleasantly surprised to see the animals such as paid a visit.

Residents and staff at Woodhorn Park care home in Ashington, honoured their local firefighters by inviting their local fire crew to the home for them to receive a goody hamper and to thank the firefighters stationed there for their selfless service keeping the community safe.

We had a lovely time joining Henry Slator for an exciting virtual event to discuss his book ‘Conversations at the Pond’.

Henry had an unusual writing journey, which many of our residents found inspiring, he underwent chemotherapy in early 2020, which allowed him to rediscover his light-hearted outlook on life by imagining conversations with creatures in and around his large garden pond and adding buckets of fun.

The entertaining Conversations at the Pond, with its mass of colourful illustrations, took our residents along his journey, they felt inspired, cheered and loved hearing all about Henry’s experiences.

In honour of the patron saint of England, staff and residents at the home marked the day by taking residents to Alnwick for the St. George’s Day parade with the Fusiliers and had the pleasure of meeting the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland who took time to talk to the residents about their service to the armed forces.

Our residents came together to enjoy an exciting virtual talk courtesy of the team at National Trust Talks Service.  The illustrated talk took us closer to one of Cliveden’s most famous families, the Astors. Our residents were able to discover what motivated William Waldorf Astor, America’s richest man, to purchase Cliveden in 1893 and how the estate became the centre of high society in the 1920 s and 30 s thanks to his son Waldorf and daughter in law Nancy Astor.

We had a lovely time joining Holly and Marie-Therese from the Wallace Collection, for a virtual introduction to the Collection, followed by a sensory exploratory walk through one of the museum’s most famous landscape paintings.  The Collection ranges from Old Master paintings to 18th century French furniture, arms and armour.   We all had a wonderful time and cannot wait to put our creative skills to a test and paint some landscapes in the upcoming days.