Whorlton Grange Care Home

06/03/2026

Our Apetito taster session was a success, with residents enjoying jumbo salmon fish fingers, mash and wedges, with katsu curry sauce followed by pudding of apricot crumble, coconut rice pudding and vanilla sponge. We thought it was great to have Apetito in sharing the new menu with us and we loved the opportunity to give feedback too!

05/03/2026

We had a lovely day out at Ouseburn Farm today, followed by a quick stop off at the Ship Inn for a day time drink. Well deserved after all the walking we did up and down the river!

04/03/2026

This morning we welcomed year 5 children from West Newcastle Academy who have been learning about WW2 in their history lessons. They came armed with questions and spoke to our residents about their real life experiences. It was a lovely morning full of reminiscing and conversation. The children were kind and respectful, and everyone had such a lovely time. Hope to see you all again soon!
😊

04/03/2026

Wellburn's Book Fairy is running a special competition for World Book Day - make sure to check it out for your chance to win! ✨📚

This World Book Day, Wellburn's Book Fairy is helping to sprinkle some extra magic! 👀🧚‍♀️

Our Book Fairy loves to share the magic of spellbinding stories, and is running a special competition across our care homes! We're inviting young bookworms to show off their World Book Day costumes and share their favourite stories with our residents 📚🐛

We've got some brilliant bookish prizes up for grabs:
✨ a bumper pack of 10 Julia Donaldson illustrated storybooks,
✨ a collection of 16 classic Roald Dahl books,
✨ and 10 timeless children's classics, including Alice in Wonderland and Black Beauty.

To be in with a chance of winning, simply post a photo of your child's World Book Day costume in the comment section with a short message about their favourite book, character or author 📖

Residents will then choose their favourite costumes, with three lucky winners being announced on our page on Monday 🏆

Happy World Book Day, everyone!

02/03/2026

On Thursday this week at 1.30pm, Apetito are hosting a tasting session at Whorlton Grange for our new menu, and you're invited! If you want to pop along feel free to let us know or just turn up on the afternoon.

26/02/2026

Some technical issues have kept our Facebook on a go slow this week, so here's a Thursday Round Up!

🎨 A free for all arty craft session saw Grace painting, Pam colouring, and Sheila and Val made cute little hanging decorations.
🧶Jeanne and Dorothy tried their hand at pompom making (it was tricky!)
❤️Sheila and Ellie put the world to rights and had a lovely chat during our Drop Everything and Listen session.
🧸Margaret and Margaret reminisced using a loaned box of treasures from Beamish Museum.
🎾 Eric, Betty, and most of the rest of the residents joined in with Josh in his session from Smile Through Sport.

What a week!

24/02/2026

Look at these impressive high kicks from 3 of the group who attended our seated exercise/dance session this afternoon. Pretty good going ladies! As Eric says - Wow! 👏🏼

21/02/2026

If you love what we do, we'd really appreciate if you would take some time to review Whorlton Grange ❤️

Submit a Review for Whorlton Grange.

20/02/2026

Today a small group went to visit Clover Cottage at Beamish, a purpose built 50s style cottage which is used for care home groups, men's groups, singing sessions and more. It was a beautiful afternoon made even better by the glorious sunshine! We toasted crumpets on the fire, fed the birds, met Mick and Viking the beautiful Clydesdale horses, and had a hearty sing along to some favourite songs. Lovely afternoon and we'll be sure to be back soon 😊

14/02/2026

Happy Valentine's Day 💘
Remembering our loved ones, and putting our valentines on our memory tree ♥️
Last night we enjoyed some balloons, comedy, singing, and dancing from Alan Cutler for a valentine's show ☺️

13/02/2026

Friday the 13th - unlucky for some but not for us! We've had another lovely flower arranging session with Sharon’s flower blooms and made some beautiful bouquets, and then got a bit crafty making valentine's cards to spread the love. Here's to more love tomorrow ♥️