Activities at Woodside House Care Home
Activities at Woodside House
Our activities team deliver a wide variety of mentally and physically stimulating activities and events for those we support, including coffee afternoons, which we hold every month for the local community, regular outings in our minibus, and visits from entertainers and musicians. Monthly resident meetings help us to ensure that those living here are getting the most out of our activities programme, and that our social events reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible. From growing our own vegetables to making giant paper-mâché animals, there is always something fun going on at Woodside House.
Sam Lake
My name is Sam and I lead our Activities Team at Woodside House.
I have been at Woodside House since 2004 and I love it here. I am responsible for ensuring that the residents are able to participate in sociable, fun and rewarding activities. My team and I are very passionate about our work and love putting smiles on the residents' faces.
We involve the residents in the planning of our activity calendars and encourage residents to continue with the hobbies that they have enjoyed throughout their lives. We will support every resident to try new things and we love learning from our residents every day.
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 Woodside House Care Home
Autumn Fayre
Here at Woodside we enjoyed our time at our very own Autumn fayre!
The fayre was held in our lounge for our families and our local community to join the residents.
Everyone who came had a lovely day and one visitor won and little doggie teddy!
Pet therapy
Here at woodside we really enjoy pet therapy, just look at the smiles on our resident's faces when Isla came to visit.
Isla is our local pet dog who comes to visit every now and then.
Isla loves cuddling up to our residents and staff, and loves sitting on their laps!
We can't wait for our next cuddle.
Pudding Club
Pudding Club was a great success again this month as you can probably see why in the photos.
Our chefs made delicious apple dumplings, served with brown sugar cream, which tasted amazing! Our residents were the spoilt with Black Forest Gateaux and German Chocolate Tart, each dessert tasting absolutely beautiful.
The desserts are chosen by the residents and all baked by our home chefs for each Pudding Club. These desserts are especially important to our residents as they hold special memories from days gone by. Another successful Pudding Club here at Woodside House.
Our residents are able to choose what appears on the weekly activities planner, and the Head Chef and kitchen team enjoy creating fine dining and themed meal experiences on a regular basis at Woodside House.
Norfolk Military
Here at Woodside, we welcome our visits from Norfolk Military Vehicles.
The weather held out for us to have a good look round the vehicles and also chat with the vehicle enthusiasts.
The vehicles are all in such good condition and really well looked after, they're so beautiful to see.
The owners of the vehicles brought their dogs too, which is always a bonus for lots of our animal loving residents.
We thanked them by offering them tea, coffee and delicious cake!
International Cat Day
For international cat day we held a cat themed quiz and made some cat toys . we are hoping to be able to donate these to our local charity. Our resident really got stuck in this and even a family member drop in to help support us this activities really help support our resident to feel a sense of purpose.
Ship Ahoy here at woodside
On Friday we went on our first cruise along the broads with Waveney stardust . We laughed all day and waved to every one that passed us . we enjoyed a lovely picnic and the crew took very good care of us and made us lots of tea.
We are looking forward to our return trip in the coming weeks.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
