Highly creative

You need to be highly creative to be an Activities Coordinator in a care home due to the different needs/wishes of the people living in the home. So, when it came to choosing someone to perform this key role at Glenburnie Lodge, we looked no further than Reka Roberts. Reka has worked in care home ac...

Welsh heritage

We are very proud of our Welsh heritage and as this was our first St David’s Day since we opened last summer, we made the very most of it with lots of Welsh themed activities in the home, including a coffee morning and a quiz. Everyone is very patriotic and it was nice to spend time being than...

Mental and physical stimulation

We had a fun afternoon of activities accompanied by music which provided great mental and physical stimulation. We used footballs as part of the activity and encouraged our ladies and gentlemen to kick it to each other in their teams. As you can see from the photographs, it was lots of fun, but very...

Lots happening

There has been lots going on at Glenburnie Lodge so far in 2025, whether it’s creating memory scrapbooks, putting our brains to the test with a general knowledge quiz, exercising with footballs, pampering sessions, doing some photograph reminiscence or singing songs at karaoke. We aim to give ...

A wonderful morning

Our ladies and gentlemen had a wonderful morning surrounded by their friends, family and staff on Christmas Day. This was our first Christmas since we opened so we wanted to make it extra special. There were lots of presents, festive music and everyone sat down to a delicious Christmas lunch made by...

Partnered with a local school

Glenburnie Lodge has partnered with a local school as part of a new intergenerational care initiative which brings young and old people together for mutual benefit. And the first project saw the children working with us to bury a time capsule on the grounds. Children from Gwenfo Church in Wales Prim...

Christmas fayre

We have had a lovely afternoon hosting our Christmas fayre. Our ladies and gents had their own stall, our Maintenance Manager Tim sold his handmade wooden decorations and there were various other stalls including those selling Christmas wreaths and flowers. We are looking forward to holding more fay...

School choir

Gwenfo school choir came back to Glenburnie and treated to some lovely Christmas carols. Our ladies and gentlemen and staff enjoyed singing along and the children got some well deserved cupcakes at the end. We wish them all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and we look forward to seeing them ev...

Live Music Therapy

Music therapy at its finest Research has shown how live music in care settings can help decrease levels of agitation and increase wellbeing for people living with dementia. Even when people don’t have dementia, live music is proven to reduce stress, improve moods and increase physical activity (t...

Halloween Fun

A spook-tacular day Our ladies and gents enjoyed a fun Halloween party at Glenburnie Lodge. It was great to see so many of our families and the wonderful costumes, which were frightfully good. At one stage we thought we would need to call The Ghostbusters! #gallery-10 { margin: auto; }...

Coffee Morning

Charity coffee morning We had a fantastic coffee morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. It was great to see our families and friends joining our ladies and gents enjoying some amazing cakes made by Amanda. Our receptionist Nicola also made a cake so thank you to them and everyone who took par...

Learning Something New

Every day is an education “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” We thoroughly agree with the legendary musician BB King who this quote is attributed too, and we demonstrated that recently at our regular sewing club, In the latest session, our sewing teach...

Keeping Fit

Keeping fit It’s important to stay active at any age, but even more so when you get older, so as part of the activity programme at Glenburnie Lodge we work with a national company called Move it or Lose it! who deliver exercise classes in care homes. Suzanne from Move It or Lose It was in the home...

Sharing Memories

Reminiscing Sharing memories and reminiscing are important as you get older and in a recent one-to-one session, our Activities Coordinator Reka spent time with one of our gentlemen Tim who shared his hiking adventures to the Brecon Beacons and other places he used to visit. Reka talked about her lo...

Getting creative

Getting creative We spent a lovely afternoon spent making a Halloween ghost banner and enjoying some dog therapy as well. Everyone had a good laugh. #gallery-15 { margin: auto; } #gallery-15 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33...

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Sewing Club

Sewing Club We have a sewing club at Glenburnie Lodge and recently we spent the afternoon making glasses cases and drawstring bags. Caroline, the daughter of one of our gentlemen, was kind enough to teach us some new tricks and everyone really enjoyed the session. It’s a great activity for concent...

Games

Dominoes and cards All of our activities are guided by our resident’s interests and in one case a gentlemen enjoys playing dominoes so our Activities Coordinator Reka sat down with him to play a few games and have some quality 1-1 time as well. We have also got a regular card game which encourages...

Family time

Family time at our BBQ party Our ladies and gents were joined by their families, friends and staff for our first BBQ party. The weather didn’t play ball but it didn’t prevent us from having a good time indoors instead. Great food, great company, great day! #gallery-16 { margin...