Whorlton Grange Care Home

01/11/2025

🎄 Now that Halloween’s over… it’s basically Christmas, right?!

While you’re digging through your lofts, sheds, or spare rooms to find your decorations, please have a quick look to see if you’ve got any Christmas bits you no longer want or need.

We would love to give them a new home instead of seeing them end up in the bin. We’re especially looking for lights this year - it’s a big home, so we’ll need loads to make it shine! ✨

If you’ve got anything you’d like to donate to us, you can drop it off at the office, or just send a message and we can arrange something.

Thank you in advance 😊

31/10/2025

Spooky scary Halloween 🎃 a lovely day with lots of face paint, enough sweets to frighten a dentist, and plenty fun and laughter!!

28/10/2025

Today we visited Richardson's Garden Centre for a lovely lunch and to see their reindeer! It's never too early for Christmas either so we bought a few decorations for when our trees go up. Back at Whorlton Grange, we carved some pumpkins 🎃 don't they look great!?

23/10/2025

Good morning friends and family, please take care when visiting us today - the traffic lights at the end of the drive are off so it's a little busy. Drive safe!

21/10/2025

Over the last few days we've done some many different things from finishing jigsaws, painting pumpkins, cuddling daisy from Wag and Company, painting more pumpkins, getting our nails done, watching movies, and much more. Our days are always full, and even on quiet days there's always something going on 😊

20/10/2025

Forgotten photos!
Last week some of us went to visit Sunderland Winter Gardens. We had a lovely time seeing all there was, followed by a trip to Wetherspoons for lunch. A wonderful day with friends.

18/10/2025

13/10/2025

This morning Margaret took a special trip out to Newcastle Photo Archive at Benwell Library, who have kindly lent us this display of Old Westerhope. We will have the display for the next two weeks. It is currently situated in the front entrance for everyone to look at, and will be moved into the games room by the end of this week. We also found some photos of Whorlton Grange in 1978 before it was a care home (the black and white photo), and some from 1988 when it was being refurbished 😊 Please feel free to pop in and have a look.

10/10/2025

Today was a day for wreath making, flower arranging, quizzes and puzzles, and making bracelets with staff! Lovely day all round 😊

09/10/2025

📝 Ongoing training is an important part of keeping staff up to date and safe while caring for your loved ones, and today as part of some in house training, Pat joined us and was happy to get her moving and handling certificate 🥳 Well done Pat!
🌰 We've played conkers today and shared memories of playing as children, soaking the conkers in vinegar and cooking them to make them hard. Some of us were back at the jigsaw, working hard to get it finished, whilst others preferred to sit on the sofa and get comfy with friends 🫂😊

08/10/2025

We have a kids Halloween raffle at Whorlton Grange - £1 per strip with proceeds going to Newcastle Dog & Cat Shelter. Please pop in the office to get a ticket or two.
We've shared some of our memories this morning of what we wanted to be when we were children, and where we ended up as adults, and staff have been working on a secret project for Halloween this afternoon ! Busy day all around 😊