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
Book corner with Henry Slator
We had a lovely time joining Henry Slator for an exciting virtual event to discuss his book ‘Conversations at the Pond’.
Henry had an unusual writing journey, which many of our residents found inspiring, he underwent chemotherapy in early 2020, which allowed him to rediscover his light-hearted outlook on life by imagining conversations with creatures in and around his large garden pond and adding buckets of fun.
The entertaining Conversations at the Pond, with its mass of colourful illustrations, took our residents along his journey, they felt inspired, cheered and loved hearing all about Henry’s experiences.
Easter in style
Staff and residents at Barchester’s The Dales care home, in Skipton, celebrated Easter with a whole host of different activities including Easter Egg art, Easter bunny art, Jigsaw puzzle art, chocolate Easter bunny search, a church service and much more.
Residents at The Dales enjoyed an eggs-tensive range of Easter activities, from egg painting, attending a church service and Chocolate bunny hunting.
Eggs-cellent Easter
It has been an eggs-cellent Easter with lots of art work, and Easter Church service, chocolate bunny hunting and more. We can’t decide if we have had enough chocolate!
Live Singer and Guitarist
It has been a while since Nigel Rae came to perform. Fabulous to welcome him back. We sang along with a little seated dancing, followed with a cup of tea and biscuits.
Easter Church Service
A lovely Easter Church service with Isobel Rathbone from our local church, St Augustine’s Church. Followed with a lovely talk, a cup of tea and a slice of cake.
Marble paint art
Marble paint kit is a very interesting watercolour art that can attract everyone from the very beginning. The special paint allowed Ilya to create dazzling artwork in a new way.
