On Saturday 13 August we hosted annual summer fete here Lukestone Care Home for the first time in two years, since the COVID19 pandemic began. It was the most wonderful day with our residents’ relatives and staff families also joining us.
Inside our garden tearoom – Paula’s Pantry – we served our visitors drinks, sold raffle tickets and let people participate in games including ‘Guess the Name of the Teddy’ and ‘How Many Sweets in the Jar’ which was particularly popular amongst our younger visitors considering the prize was a huge teddy and a big jar of sweets!
Inside, we also set a photo booth for our visitors to enjoy with a variety of amusing props which people could use to make their photos funnier and more exciting! Later, we served a delicious buffet which included a variety of drinks and party foods like sausage rolls, sandwiches and more!
Outside, our visitors could sit down with their relatives and chat whilst enjoying the lovely sunny day. Relatives were encouraged to participate in our carnival games which our Maintenance man Darren built, and the activities team painted. The carnival games included tin can alley, coconut shy and the wet sponge throw. The wet sponge was most popular and the kids loved it – we even had some relatives getting in the stocks as it was such a hot today!
Our relatives and staff enjoyed winning many amazing prizes from the raffle and it’s fair to say we had some very lucky people! It was such a beautiful day and to have so many of our residents’ relatives joining us was also amazing and we cannot wait for more days like this in the future!
