We'll never get tired of helping our residents to achieve their goals. Last week, Lizzie, our lifestyle coordinator from our Wellburn House Care Home, helped our lovely Carole to achieve her goal of going to Scotland to visit her daughter, Jo. A lovely day for all!
We love trying new activities here at Wellburn Care, and so love when Reminscience come to visit. Reminscience allow our residents to experience virtual reality, which helps to stimulate conversation and allows our residents to reminiscence over old memories! We had a great time reminiscing at Wellburn House today!
Tonight we were invited to an awards evening held by Care Campaign For The Vulnerable, where our chairman, Rachel, won one of their Inspirational Leaders in Care awards for our safety monitoring system work. Thank you to Jayne and everyone at the charity for a lovely evening, and a huge well done to Rachel!
Residents from our Craghall home have made some very special friendships with the children and staff from TMC Tynemouth Nursery recently. The children and the nursery staff regularly visit Craghall as part of our Sensory Connexions workshops, but today, we were lucky enough to be invited to spend the day at the nursery. Everyone enjoyed the sensory playdough, planted some Sweet Pea seeds and enjoyed a delicious afternoon tea before a singsong and story time. We had an absolutely lovely time!
We’d like to say a huge well done to our Deputy Manager, Freda, and Lifestyle Coordinator, Louise, who took part in the Radio Borders super-hero splash, for Cash for Kids today! Great work for a fantastic local charity!
Thank you to everyone who came to our wine and cheese evening last night at our Glenholme House home. It was lovely to see you all there and to be able to show everyone the results of our recent refurbishment work. We hope you all had a great time and love The Pantry!
Residents from our Glenholme House home have enjoyed a lovely day out today to the Alnwick Gardens. It’s fantastic being able to take our residents out and about in our mini buses, to local places of interest! A lovely day for all.
Today we had another #workmatters placement, with Ellen from our Glenholme House Care Home helping out for the day at St Oswald's Hospice shop in Sunderland. Ellen had a fantastic time being back in a working environment, and even treat herself to a lovely new coat! The smile on her face says it all! If your business would like to get involved with work matters, please email us at workmatters@wellburncare.co.uk
Qwen, who lives at our Heatherdale Home, used to run a playgroup. One of her goals was to go back to this environment, and so with a little help from our staff at Heatherdale, Qwen achieved one of her goals and went along to visit Broomhill toddlers group. She had a wonderful morning!
Residents from our Nightingale Hall home have thoroughly enjoyed a trip out to Harrogate Flower Show today. A firm favorite event with our residents each year with some beautiful flowers on display!
We ask all of our residents to tell us 3 goals they would like to achieve, so that we are able to try and incorporate as many of these goals as we can, into our well-being programmes. Today, Helen from our St George’s Home, helped Margaret and Margaret to achieve their goal of visiting York Minster. We try and make the destinations we go out to on trips as meaningful as possible, so today was just perfect!
We'd like to say a huge thank you to Sunderland AFC for helping Sol, who lives at our Eighton Lodge Care Home, to achieve his goal of visiting the Stadium of Light. We couldn’t thank our tour guide, Keith Dinning, enough for his help. Sol had an absolutely brilliant day!
What an amazing Easter weekend we've had across all of our homes, filled with laughter, sunshine and lots of chocolate! We hope you all had a lovely weekend!
We love being able to take our residents out and about in our local communities, and so we made sure we made the most of the glorious weather today! Residents from our Nightingale Hall home had a lovely day out to Strikes Garden Centre. A beautiful day with lots of smiles and laughter!
Today it is Shirley’s birthday! Shirley lives at our Grimston Court home, and it was one of her goals to go to the ballet. As a special birthday treat, we arranged for the ballet to come to Shirley. Becca danced the Spanish Nutcracker and the ribbon dance for our residents and was absolutely fantastic. Shirley had a wonderful day!
Today we launched our second work matters placement at Glenholme House , with Nancy and Bernadette at Sunderland Royal Hospital on the Children’s Ward. Nancy used to work at the hospital on the fracture clinic and in A&E, and Bernadette worked as a midwife. Nancy and Bernadette went to the wards to give the children Easter eggs and to speak to the staff on shift. A few of the nurses recognised Nancy, and it was so lovely to see the effect that even just being on the ward had on our two lovely ladies!
Our Heatherdale home have been making goals happen once again, this time helping Vera to achieve her goal of visiting Morwick Dairy. Vera wanted to see the calf’s as she used to have 3 cows herself, Betty, Suzy and Sally. Vera absolutely loved seeing the calf’s and it brought back some lovely memories for her!
Residents from our Grimston Court home had a lovely time supporting the children of Dunnington Primary School at their Easter Service and Choir Performance. The children were absolutely fantastic and our residents thoroughly enjoyed themselves!
We had a very different activity on offer today at our Whorlton Grange home, with Zoo Lab! Our residents were really brave and held animals from snakes to rats! It’s great to see so much variation in our well-being programmes across all of our homes!
Residents from our Heatherdale home have had a lovely time this morning, judging the Easter art competition at Red Row Primary School. It’s lovely for our residents to be able to get involved in local community events so thank you so much to the school for our invite!
