Activities at Woodhorn Park Care Home

Both our residents and the team are absolutely delighted with the generosity of the local community. A beautiful Dolls house has been donated to Woodhorn Park for our residents to enjoy, this was then followed by another generous donation of furniture for the doll’s house.

It is sitting very proudly within our Memory Lane Community taking pride of place. It is an absolute delight to hear our ladies reminiscing about their children’s dolls house’s and the gentleman talking about the intricate carving of making the furniture for the house’s from pieces of wood lying around

Woodhorn Park  in Ashington is marking National Nest Box Week by creating and installing nest boxes in their garden to help support the local bird population. 

National Nest Box Week takes place each year from Feb 14-21 to encourage everyone to put up nest boxes in their local area to promote the conservation of our breeding birds and wildlife. Garden songbirds can struggle to find suitable nesting holes and cavities if there are a lack of mature trees in the area.

Staff and residents at Woodhorn Park have been finding out about what materials to use to make a good nest box and what plants and shrubs make the best nesting materials.

Woodhorn Park care home, in Ashington, was filled with flowers, cards and sweets in celebration of St Valentine’s Day.  

Staff and residents celebrated the day of love by creating heart-shaped decorations to decorate the home and gifting each other home-made sweets, cakes and treats.  Our couples enjoyed treasured one to one time using the homes designated visiting suite sharing gifts, cards, eating cupcakes and a special celebratory drink

General Manager, Julie Bond, said: “It’s been a very different Valentine’s Day but we’ve all had a lovely day nonetheless. Lots of our residents were able to see their loved ones either using our visiting suite or on a video call. We’ve had a whole range of treats and Valentine’s themed fun and we have enjoyed every moment of it!”

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Woodhorn Park care home had a fantastic time celebrating International Chocolate Cake Day, surely one of the best days of the year!

Staff and residents whipped up a selection of different chocolate cakes from chocolate logs to cupcake.  Once they had cooled, everyone got busy decorating with icing, buttercream, marshmallows, dolly mixture, edible to make some of the most fabulous cakes in town.

Senior General Manager, Julie Bond said: “It wasn’t just the residents that were excited when we found out there was an International Chocolate Cake Day, the eyes of all our staff lit up too – everyone loves chocolate cake and even better when there is a good excuse to eat it!”

Woodhorn Park care home prepared a traditional Burns Night Supper to the tune of bagpipes playing in the background and the fun continued well into the wee small hours.

Staff and residents at the home were involved in a number of activities throughout the day to mark the Scottish institution, including giving the time-honoured address to the ‘Great chieftain O’ the pudding’ race’ – the haggis.
 

Residents at Woodhorn Park in Ashington celebrated International Flower Day which took place on 21st January.

International Flower Day promotes the psychological boost that flowers can give to people. From growing and nurturing plants and flowers, to gifting flowers to show love and appreciation, and sometimes just the simple act of admiring their beauty – flowers have the power to make someone’s day.