Estia Health Tea Gardens Resident's Walking Group

By Peta Kidd

I'm raising funds for people with dementia!

Here at Estia Health Tea Gardens we hold a daily walking group to help with our resident's mobility. We walk 60,000 steps a month. We have a number of resident's participate including those with walkers, those in wheelchairs and those with Dementia.

We are setting ourselves a challenge for September and aim to walk 80,000 steps as a team to raise funds during Dementia awareness month.

We hope to get as many Resident's and Staff to participate as possible and possibly exceed our goal! 

We would like your help! Please make a donation to support our efforts and help us reach our goal to beat dementia.


All funds raised will support the work of Dementia Australia to provide vital support services for people living with dementia, their families and carers. These services include counselling, support groups, education and training.

Thank you for your support.

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End of Walk

Wednesday 30th Sep
We have reached the end of our fundraising adventure in raising funds for Dementia Australia. We had originally set ourselves a goal of 80,000 steps and $1000 dollars. All up the resident's of Tea Garden's have walked an incredible 317,377 steps raised $1001 online and $187.90 in cash donations. I am incredibly proud of the achievement and our residents. We will still be walking every day as it is a very important part of our wellbeing. Thankyou all very much for all your support and donations.
Cass 
Lifestyle Coordinator

Day 20 and 21

Wednesday 30th Sep
We have had a lovely couple of days on our walk. Yesterday we had 7 residents and 4 staff participate and walked a total of  19,657 steps. And today we had 8 residents and 3 staff participate and walked 20, 234 steps.

Day 19

Monday 28th Sep
Today was a lovely day here in Tea Gardens. It was a bit chilly but nice in the sun. Today we had 10 residents and 4 staff participate and walked 25,024 steps. 

End of week 4

Friday 25th Sep
The end of another week with our walking and fundraising. We only have 3 days left next week. We have had a lot of fun and are only $85 of our goal. This week we managed a total of 104,101 steps. It has been quite a warm week here as well, we are very proud of our efforts. All up the residents have walked 252,462 steps. I am so proud of them!!!

Day 17 and 18

Friday 25th Sep
We have had a couple of lovely warm days here in Tea Gardens. Yesterday we had 9 residents and 3 staff participate and walked 24,264. Today we had 8 residents and 5 staff participate and walked 26,286 steps.

Day 16

Wednesday 23rd Sep
We ventured over into the Grange today. It was a warm day here today but a bit windy. Today we had 11 residents and 3 staff participate and walked a total of 26,144 steps.

Day 15

Tuesday 22nd Sep
We had to venture back into the backyard on our walk today. They are performing roadworks across the road in the Grange. It was quite warm again today but we had a beautiful breeze. today we had 12 residents and 3 staff participate and walked a total of 10,995 steps. 

Day 14

Monday 21st Sep
Today is Alzheimer's awareness day. We had a lovely morning tea and a chat about dementia. Today was a very hot day here in Tea Gardens. We still walked though!! We had 9 residents and 2 staff participate and walked a total of 16,412 steps.   

End of Week 3

Friday 18th Sep
The end of another great week with our walk. The easing of some of our restrictions has meant we can now walk into the grange and walk a lot further. The resident's are getting a lot of enjoyment out of this. They are also liking their new shirts and hats donated by Dementia Australia, they look great!!! The longer distance has meant that this week we have been able to do a total of 96,321 steps. We have more than exceeded our goal with a total of 148,361 steps walked. We are going to keep going though and see how many steps we can do as every step counts!!!

Day 13

Friday 18th Sep
Today was much cooler her in Tea Garden's. The rain had stopped by the afternoon so we where able to do our walk. Today we had 12 resident's and 4 staff participate and walked a total of 25,728 steps. 

Day 12

Thursday 17th Sep
It is a warm 28 degrees here in Tea Gardens today. Today we had 11 residents and 4 staff participate. We walked a total of 22,440 steps. We received some shirts and hats from Dementia Australia and would like to thank them for all there support during our walk. The resident's looked great and where very sun safe!!!!

Day 11

Wednesday 16th Sep
Today we walked across the grange again, it really is beautiful in spring. We where admiring all the different colored flowers . Today we had 11 residents and 3 staff participate and walked a total of 19,768 steps. 

Day 10

Tuesday 15th Sep
Today we changed up our route and walked across the road and did a lap of the Grange. We enjoyed being out and about and checking out the beautiful flowers, Mark Twain and the fountain. We had 8 residents and 3 staff participate today and walked and astonishing 19,965 steps. Well done team!!! what an achievement. We would like to thank everyone whom has donated so far. We are halfway to our goal :)

Day 9

Monday 14th Sep
A new week to enjoy our walks and beautiful weather here again in Tea Gardens. Today we had 15 residents and 5 staff participate and walked a total of 8420 steps!!!

End of week 2

Friday 11th Sep
The residents and staff here at Estia Health Tea Garden's walked a total of 26,134 steps during our walking group for our fundraiser. We had a couple of rainy days so had to improvise and walk laps of the facility. So far we have walked an incredible 52,040 steps. Well done team Tea Gardens.

Day 7 and 8

Friday 11th Sep
Yesterday was another rainy day here in Tea Gardens so we walked a few laps around the facility. We had 7 residents and 3 staff participate walked a total of 4380 steps.
Today we where blessed with sunshine and warm weather so where able to walk in our beautiful backyard again. we had 7 resident's and 3 staff participate and walked 7330 steps.

Day 7

Wednesday 9th Sep
It was a rainy day here in Tea Gardens today. We however did do our walk but we walked inside around the facility. Today we had 9 residents and 3 staff and walked 1500 steps.

Day 6

Tuesday 8th Sep
Today we had 9 residents and 3 staff participate in our walk and walked a total of 6,156 steps.

Day 5

Monday 7th Sep
A brand new week to see how many steps we can do!! It's been a sunny 21 degrees here in Tea Garden's today. Today we had 12 resident's and 4 staff participate in our walk and walked a total of 6,768 steps. 

Day 4

Friday 4th Sep
Today we had 11 residents and 4 staff participate in our walk. We walked a total of 6048 steps. At the beginning of the week Jessie attended the walking group in her wheelchair, but with the help of our physio Matt Jessie has been able to walk 1 lap of our circuit 2 days in a row. She manages the grass with her walker and now stops minimal times.  She has done amazing and we are so proud of her. Well done Jess!!! Our total for the week is 25,906 steps. Well done to the resident's and staff at Estia Tea Gardens for a great week and an amazing chunk of our goal.

Day 3

Thursday 3rd Sep
It was a warm 29 degrees here in Tea Garden's today. Today we had 13 residents and 4 staff participate in our walk and walked a total of 8,551 steps. 

Day 2

Wednesday 2nd Sep
Another Glorious Day here at Tea Garden's. A perfect 23 degrees. On today's walk we had 8 resident's and 2 staff and walked total of 5430 steps as a group.

Day 1

Tuesday 1st Sep
Day 1 of our walk was a success, we had 7 resident's and 2 staff participate today. It was a beautiful day here in Tea Garden's and we managed to complete 5877 steps. Well done!

Thank you to my Supporters

$187

Estia Health Tea Gardens

$31.32

Eddy Groot

$55

Berlinda Long

$31.32

Jandavid Robinson

Well done and thank you.

$55

Jane Baker

$31.32

Sue Lawson

$57.42

The Swan Family

Go Team Tea Gardens! You are doing amazing and should be proud of yourselves :)

$20.88

Matt Ridgewell

Been very happy to be apart of this cause

$20

Reece Fletcher

$57.42

Cindy Tan

Go Team Estia TG!

$57.42

Bradley Barnett

$57.42

Vanessa Cook

Great work team😄

$20.88

Bates

Awesome work guys

$52.20

Ray & John Dudman

Best of luck to the Estia Health Tea Gardens walking group on your endeavours to raised funds in support of Dementia Australia. What a nice way to maintain your own health and well being while raising much needed funds for this for this wonderful organisation.

$31.32

Paul Perry

$104.40

Keith Smith

$57.42

Robert Murdoch

Hope you have a lovely fine spring day, Cass

$20

Gael Wright

Well done to everyone taking part. A great cause to support and good luck with achieving your goal.

$50

Lisa Barber

Great to see everyone participating & enjoying being involved in a such a good cause.

$55

Michelle Fletcher

Great initiative - Go Team Tea Gardens!

$104.40

Kelly Hurkett

$31.32

Trudy Mackenzie

Good luck Eatia Health Tea Gardens. What an awesome initiative