Activities at Woodhorn Park Care Home

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Mark for taking time to visit us at Woodhorn Park. Mark is the chief librarian in Ashington and, as part of Library Week, he brought along reminiscence boxes for both residents and staff to view and discuss. Irene enjoyed looking through the books and discussing the ration books.

Here at Woodhorn Park, we care passionately about ‘making a difference’ for residents, so we organised a Memory Walk for the Alzheimer’s Society.

We planned our route and walked for five miles with some of our ladies walking with us for a short while, before they called into the local pub for their dinner whilst we kept on walking. We were overwhelmed by the support of  the Ashington people, who stopped cars and donated to us during our walk in addition to all of our lovely sponsors.

We have raised approximately a grand total of £600. It was a wonderful day for all of us and emotive to say the least.

Some happy beginnings and sad endings occurred at Woodhorn Park recently. We would like to wish a huge congratulations to our Apprentice Care Assistant, Jordan, who recently celebrated her 18th birthday.

It is with great sadness to say that, on Jordan’s special day, the team also said a fond farewell to Housekeeper, Marlene, who worked at Woodhorn Park for 17 years. We all wished her a happy retirement!

Woodhorn Park residents celebrated ‘Friendship Day’ with a garden party, and invited residents from our sister home, Station Court, and Mayoress, Marjorie Chambers.

No matter who we are or where we are, it is easy to become isolated in a crowd and, here at Woodhorn Park, we encourage friendships and support relationships.

The weather was kind to us in our special day, and people enjoyed a game of croquet with the lovely Mayoress. Residents from Woodhorn Park and Station Court enjoyed a glass of fizz whilst reminiscing about the past.

Thanks to the continuing glorious weather, residents decided to revisit a local beauty spot close Plessey Woods. We packed up our picnic baskets ladened with traditional sandwiches cake and squash, and off we ventured.

It has been 100 years since the end of World War 1, therefore residents at Woodhorn Park invited Makala to entertain our them by singing the very best of British songs. As you can see, the ladies  certainly enjoyed her performance!