Activities at Blenheim Lodge Residential
Home
 Firstly,
you will have noticed that due to its location, Blenheim Lodge provides
an ideal setting for those of you who are keen to walk out in the
park, along the sea front or even down to the town. For those of
you who are not able, the staff can offer wheelchair walks when
time allows.
Perhaps it would be useful for you to know what
we cannot offer at Blenheim Lodge. We are not in a position to enable
you to ‘potter’ in the kitchen, peg out the washing,
assist with DIY or become involved in the daily running of the Home.
Nor will you find a programme of professional ‘entertainers’
hired to amuse you.
 What
you will find is that we are a Residential Home with strong links
to the local community which underpin our activities:
- A weekly planned programme, giving you the opportunity to join
with the other Residents and the Activities Organiser to enjoy
in-house activities (often over morning coffee or afternoon tea):
classical music; book-reading out loud; special videos; bingo;
crosswords; poetry-reading, quizzes and the opportunity to play
‘parlour- games’ together
- Regular chair-based flexercise sessions
- Regular in-house Church Services and visiting Clergy
- Regular mini-bus trips to carefully selected venues and countryside
- A selection of large-print library books refreshed every six
weeks
- A hairdresser who attends weekly
- A volunteer-run trolley shop – ‘order’ this
week and ‘receive’ the next
- A monthly Newsletter to which you are welcome to contribute
- A central picture notice board for your contributions of interest
- Pastoral visitors who attend on a voluntary basis
- The opportunity to assist with or watch patio gardening
- Visiting pets (with owners!)
- Local ‘music-makers’ of very high standard who come
to share their talents with us: duettists, pianists, vocal artists,
recorder ensemble, handbell-ringers, choirs
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