This evening, Andy, one of the activity coordinators at Parkview Care Home, had a spooktacularly seasonal task awaiting us!

Two of us ran there from Crook Log Leisure Centre, while the others made their own way to the home, where a frightfully fun evening was about to begin.

With Halloween just around the corner, we spent a ghoulishly good hour carving pumpkins with the home’s residents.

We each paired up with a resident, and set to work with pumpkin carving tools. We hollowed out our gourds and create a host of wonderfully wicked faces. 🎃🎃🎃

Some of the residents got especially creative, adding ears to their pumpkins and even giving the creepy creations their very own names!

It was a lovely way to get into the Halloween spirit together.

We were also delighted to have Karen and Semira on their first task. Welcome to Team GoodGym Bexley!

More photos to come so check back here soon!

What a lovely task, helping at Parkview Care Home's Summer Party for residents, their families and friends!

To get everyone in the mood we handed out garlands then we ran the popular bottle tombola and served drinks. Johnny had his Pimms-making technique down to a fine art🍹!

All of this against the backdrop of an Elvis tribute singer who got everyone All Shook Up with his classic songs. Think Viva Las Vegas meets Bexleyheath!

Once the celebrations were over and Elvis had left the building, we pitched in with clearing everything away.

A great afternoon of helping out, having fun and spending time with the residents🎉💪.

This was our monthly visit to Parkview Care Home.

After meeting up with Andy we headed out to the garden area. There was lots of watering to be done as everything was very dry. We also needed to remove a build up of moss from the pathway.

Some of the residents came out to give us a helping hand! It was a great workout trying to scrub the moss off and satisfying to see the difference!

A big thank you to everyone who turned up! A great effort by all!

After a run with the sun setting we met up with Jo (Annette had a night off) at the Parkview Care Home reception ready to start tonight's task.

We got stuck in making Easter bunnies and painting Easter eggs. We managed to entice the more reluctant residents to participate with egg-ceptional results! Some of them really came out of their shells!

The time flew by and before we knew it it was time to go.

See you all next time.

Such a fun evening tonight at Parkview Care Home.

We were greeted by the home's activity coordinator, Annette, who had song sheets already prepared for us and the residents were waiting and looking forward to the sing along!

We started with "Tip toe through the tulips" and then "My old man's a dustman'". I'm sure our voices are improving and there was even some dancing thrown in! The care home manager even complimented us on our singing!

In no time at all it was time to leave and we finished, rather appropriately, with "We'll meet again".

We said our goodbyes, until next time!

And we'll be back again next month so do come and join us!

After a short run from the Crook Log Sports Crntre we arrived at Parkview Care Home. Martin was already there with board games at the ready!

Martin was in charge of the dominoes, Lisa took on the word games and I was the Snakes + Ladders person.

The residents soon got stuck shaking the dice. Martin then became our quiz master, reading out questions which really got everyone thinking!

We found short games and activities better to keep the residents engaged.

We ended with a good old sing-song! Everyone enjoyed it and joined in by tapping their feet, clapping or singing!

Well done all! Our visits really do make a difference for the residents.

Thank you to Annette for hosting us on this visit. We'll be back next month, so come along and join us. Can you beat resident Catherine at Boggle?