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.

Enriching life
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Sam Lake

Activities Coordinator

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.

Life-encriching activities booklet

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

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Messing about on the broads!!

Sunshine and chip in paper sitting by the river this is living life and what we love to do here at Woodside. 

 

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National Turtle Day

Here at Woodside House we couldn’t find a turtle so we celebrated the day by having our very own benny the tortoise come to visit. The residents and staff had the most amazing day. He is so handsome.

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Age UK Talk

Fabulous morning with Age Uk at Woodside House discussing poetry. Lots of chatting and stimulating talk followed by tea and biscuits.

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Party fit for a King!

Here at Woodside, we celebrated the king's coronation by having entertainment and a barbecue and to end with a staff cake bake off where residents were the judges.

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Arts & Crafts

Residents at Woodside House have been getting creative this morning in our Arts & Crafts session.

Today we have been making Flower Canvases. Residents cut and coloured flowers to their own style. They all turned out amazing!

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Make a wish come true!

Here at Woodside we made a wish come true! One of our residents used to ride horses throughout her child hood. Her wish was to go and see some horses, so, we took a trip to Redwings Horse Sanctuary. Our resident was delighted to spend the morning exploring the horse sanctuary and meeting all the lovely horses and their carers. Our resident was so happy!

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.