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.
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
Hallswood Animal Sanctuary
Another brilliant visit from Hallswood Animal Sanctuary today. Thank you ladies for bringing a cockeral, a hen, a hedgehog, a guinea pig, a rabbit and our friend Ivy Pig Pig.
The cockerel was flat out, asleep on a lap.
We are obviously a calm lot as so did the guinea pig and rabbit!!
While the hen found the garden and got herself some snacks !
'Giving Back' to Pricilla Bacon Lodge
This year our lovely residents are 'giving back' to the local community. We have lots of plans but today was our first presentation to the amazing staff at Pricilla Bacon Lodge. It was a pleasure for our Resident Ambassador Biddy to present our first cheque to Louise from our fundraising events.
Thank you, residents, staff, and visitors for your generous support, and thank you Louise and Helena for making us so welcome. We look forward to the next visit.
A visit from the Vintage Motor Cycle Club
The lovely gents from the Vintage Motor Cycle Club (VMCC) came to visit this morning and attracted quite a crowd, before stopping with us for lunch. Resident and relativities, volunteers staff, and some new faces enjoyed admiring the bike chatting to the guys reminiscing along the way.
International Firefighter Day
We celebrating international firefighters day and we wanted to say thank you. so we invited them to join us for breakfast! what great guest there were. it was a brilliant morning !! we served some mid-morning tea coffee and cakes.
Pudding Club
Oooooh we do love a dessert
We were joined today by The Lord Mayor of Norwich and his consort Imogen. they were invited to join us for lunch and ate with the residents, including our resident ambassador and Volunteer Sue, going on to taste and judge our puddings. on the menu, we had apple crumble made by the residents, along with cherry pie, treacle sponge, and crème brulee. The Lord Mayor had the final say and chose Treacle sponge
Happy St George's Day everyone!
It all got a little ferocious this morning. Before listening to singers and baking, the dragon had to be slayed! what a morning filled of fun and laughter.
Our residents spend the early morning using our big iPad google to find out all about the man himself.
