Activities at The Dales Care Home
We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.
Kay Thompson
Hi, my name is Kay and I am the activities coordinator here at the Dales. I joined the team in June 2021 and I love spending time with the residents each day, delivering meaningful activities that keep our residents active and social stimulated, more importantly we have fun! Our life enrichment programme is varied and we have lots to do!
Before I joined the home I was a lecturer teaching young individuals with high needs, it is very different being an activities coordinator but it does help with understand how to ensure everyone is happy each and every day in everything that we do.
I look forward to meeting you when you visit our home.
Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at The Dales Care Home
90th Birthday Celebrations
This month we have had triple 90th birthday celebrations, so we thought, just to add to the celebrations, we would take our residents out for a pub lunch celebration!
We went to the Bay Horse Skipton, and it was enjoyed by everyone, lovely food, a lovely little drink and everyone was full of laughter.
St. Patrick's Day
It is a day that commemorates Saint Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland and, by extension, celebrates the heritage and culture of the Irish.
A lovely celebration of St Patrick’s Day! A day full of joy, enjoyment and happiness.
The Irish music works magically, having everyone going along with fun, games and lots of laughter!
World Book Day!
What an amazing day with World Book Day, everyone full of love, laughter and totally amazed! A little bit of a theme was Harry Potter, so we invited the Owl Adventures to come along.
It was amazing to meet 11-month-old Spud the Indian Scops Owl, 6-year-old Dusty the Dark-Breasted Barn Owl, 12-year-old Eva the Canadian Great Horned Owl, 8-year-old Roland the Harris Hawk and 4-year-old Athena the Russian Steppe Eagle! A wonderful, amazing therapy for everyone.
We really were totally amazed.
Thank you so much to Emily and Owen for introducing us to them. We will definitely be inviting you again soon!
Minibus Excursion - Boundary Mill
It was horrible weather, cold, foggy and raining, but that didn’t stop us from enjoying going out!
Perfect trip to Boundary Outlet, a lovely look around, and we couldn’t resist doing a little bit of shopping. We could spend a whole week there, but we thought we better not!
A lovely lunch at the café, a good chinwag, and we were then ready for another quick look around, making sure we didn’t miss anything! A lovely ladies day!
28 Miles in 28 Days!
Residents and staff at The Dales care home in Skipton are donning their branded beanies, lacing up their walking boots and taking on the 28 mile fundraising challenge for Alzheimer’s Research UK.
Throughout February, staff and residents are attempting to walk a mile each day, or as much as they can manage. We started on February 1st and, taking place each day, all participants should gather at the home to take on some or all of a bracing mile, outdoors weather permitting, to raise funds for this worthy cause.
After everyone has done their steps for the day, there will be warming hot drinks and delicious home-made cakes to reward all participants. On days when the weather is not playing ball, not to be deterred, the walking will take place indoors instead.
Bucket List!
What an amazing afternoon! Talking to our residents and their family is what helps us make their dreams come true.
This was a day that we ticked one of our residents bucket lists and that was taking him and his wife to the amazing Brasserie and Bar at Devonshire Arms Hotel & Spa. It was also a double celebration as it was our residents 90th birthday!
We cannot thank everyone at the wonderful Brasserie enough for the amazing generosity they offered to our residents.
We all had a wonderful lunchtime, the food was more than amazing and with everyone being so welcoming they loved every second of it.
Our residents and his wife said, “it’s been the best day ever!”
