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.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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
Eddy’s Mobile Barber!
We would like to introduce Mark Suleman – Eddy’s Mobile Barber an amazing Mobile Barber from Skipton.
We got in touch, he came along to meet our gentlemen residents and loves being with us.
A wonderful gentlemen’s day, beard trims, haircuts, good talks, laughing and everyone feeling good about themselves. Mark is amazing at his job and we will be seeing him again every 6 weeks!
10 Pin Bowling!
What a fun morning we had at the Matrix Super Bowl Snooker and Pool Centre!
What a fabulous fun morning out with our residents! It wasn’t great weather so we thought let’s go somewhere we can stay inside and have lots of fun! So it was Matrix Bowling, Skipton that called us!
Two games that were a big competition, we all had a go, it was two against two, we won’t tell you the ‘twos’ that were the winners, we all won and enjoyed every second of it!
After the games we fully enjoyed a tasty pizza with chips and extra garlic bread.
We would just like to thank all the staff at Matrix Bowling, we were so looked after, it was a fabulous morning and we will be back again soon with more residents!
In for all pennies!
A lovely afternoon! We had a connection a little while ago with The Royal Mint Museum and it wasn’t long after when the magic box arrived.
Parts of the Royal Mint Museum collections were sent to us to go through with residents. Lots of activity resources were sent including real and replica collection items and audio descriptions.
We went through every item and information that brought back many memories for everyone.
We finished off with falsely spending the pennies to buy some sweets that we got from Sarsaparillas Sweet Shop in Skipton. Amazing sweet shop with so much to choose from.
A very sweet penny afternoon!
We love cheese!
Well what a lovely week we’ve had so far!! Having a chat with the residents helps us come up with more things to do, cheese and wine was mentioned and we were straight on it.
Earlier this week we went to The Courtyard Dairy up at Crow’s Nest Barn near Settle and oh my, we’ve never seen so much cheese and wanted to take a bit of them all! But we did a little bit of tasting and chose 4 very tasty cheeses to bring home for everyone to try.
Thursday was cheese and wine tasting afternoon. Music was playing, wine was being served and cheese was ready to be tasted.
Everyone enjoyed the difference of each but we think our favourite was the Kerkham’s Lancashire Cheese. We also say never enough cheese.
We all think this will be a regular afternoon, trying different cheese is loved by everyone.
Skipton Dementia Hub, World Alzheimer’s Day
What a wonderful morning joining with the Skipton Dementia Hub at Skipton Rugby Club for an early World Alzheimer’s Day party!
Amazing joining and gathering everyone together for tea, coffee, cake, toasted tea cakes, bingo and more!
We can’t thank Barry and Lynda enough for welcoming us joining them for the first time, many more gatherings to come!
September is the World Alzheimer’s Month, it is the opportunity to raise dementia awareness and support everyone!
Mini Bus Excursion, Woodbank Garden Centre and Nurseries
A wonderful Thursday to our favourite garden centre. Beautiful flowers, a wonderful shop, perfect seeing so many guinea pigs, one of our residents thought we should take some home with us, maybe next time. There was also so many birds, fish, a beautiful owl and the tortoises. Perfect place to have a tasty slice of cake with a cup of tea.
A perfect mini bus excursion ladies trip and thank you to our mini bus driver Neil!
