Leisure and Family Services (LaFS)

Our Leisure and Family Services (LaFS) team provides and coordinates a wide range of social and leisure activities for our patients and residents, both on the wards and the wider hospital grounds. The team includes a dedicated group of volunteers who bring a wide range of skills and experience, providing companionship and practical support for patients in a variety of activities, some of which include:

1:1 befriending

Attending in-house concerts

Ward based and Art room activities

Accessing computers for such things as emails, social media, games, music

Gardening

Chaplaincy and pastoral support

Wheelchair sports – including Boccia

Games and hobbies

Reading groups

Additional services supported by Leisure and Family Services includes:

Hairdressing in custom built salon

Liaison and referrals to Legal and Welfare Benefits Advise service

Coordinates referrals for complimentary therapy services such as Massage, Aromatherapy, Reflexology

Maintaining the aquariums across the RHN

Organising live music concerts

Supporting and organising events

Facilitating room bookings for families in our onsite accommodation in West Lodge

Wenham music library – CDs and DVDs patients can borrow

RHN Chaplain

I am the chaplain to the whole hospital community – residents, patients, relatives and staff. Whatever an individual’s religious beliefs (or no beliefs) I am there to offer pastoral care, to be a listening ear and to be a shoulder to cry on. I could be described as “the friend to all, providing guidance in pastoral and community matters.”

I have a specific role for those within the community who have a distinctively Christian faith. It is my role to strengthen that faith and nurture the hope that comes with that faith. And so I lead the “church” in the hospital. I also make sure that those within the community who have a distinctive faith, other than the Christian faith, will get appropriate ministry and spiritual care. Geoff Coyne