Activities at Emily Jackson House Care Home
Our activities team continues to offer a wide range of activities to both mentally and physically stimulate our residents. Our activities include one to one shopping, group outings in our minibus, and regularly attending our local church and bowling club. We also enjoy the entertainment from the musicians who come and visit us as well as our PAT dog. We have a range of activities so residents with all abilities and talents can join in activities and social gatherings. We encourage families and volunteers to share the joy with us by taking part in our social events as well.
Paula McGill
Hi, My name is Paula and I am the Lead Activities Coordinator here at Emily Jackson House. I absolutely love supporting our residents to take part in meaningful activities and delivering a person centred activity program.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Emily Jackson House Care Home
Macmillan Coffee morning
We recently joined in with the big Macmillan coffee morning with St Lukes church.
We decided to join forces with St. Luke’s to support this charity. We all know someone that has been affected by this disease and how it touches our hearts.
On behalf of us and St. Luke’s church would like to thank all that came this morning and supported in donating to this amazing charity.
We have raised £113.10!
Art exhibition
We were delighted to present a retrospective art exhibition for local artist John Lucas. Sadly, John passed away during the preparations of this exhibition but he would be happy to know it is still going ahead.
John regularly took part in the South East Open Art Studios, showing his work in a shared studio space in Brasted, Kent.
His family had kindly donated numerous paintings and sketches for the exhibition.
We thank all that attended our art exhibition last night in memory of artist and resident, John Lucas.
A generous amount was raised from the sale of his artwork with the money going to the residents fund as per John’s wishes.
Car Show
What a fabulous morning we had on Saturday for our first car show!
We had a really good turnout despite the weather. Thanks to Lottie Dee and her team for organising the cars. We had Jaguars, a couple of old MG’s, VXR’s and an Audi.
We even had a red Ferrari, courtesy of the Ferrari garage in Sevenoaks.
Thank you for bringing the car, you made some people very happy.
We were very proud that the Mayor of Sevenoaks took the time to share the morning with us.
Lastly thank you to all that came and for supporting our local charity West Kent Mind.
We raised an amazing £166.84!
Dog Show!
The rain didn’t stop our dog show here at Emily Jackson House, we still had lots of fun!
The dogs were fantastic and very well behaved.
The residents enjoyed meeting and watching the dogs perform, and resident’s families were invited to bring their pups along to compete in all kinds of fun categories. Some of the categories were: Waggiest Tail, Cutest Pooch, Most Obedient – timed sit to name but a few.
Thank you to all that joined us and made it a great day, we hope there's another one soon!
Mary Retires After 30 Years Service
It was a day of mixed emotions here at Emily Jackson care home in Sevenoaks as we said goodbye and happy retirement to our senior carer Mary.
Mary started work at Emily Jackson in 1994 giving the home and residents 30 years of devoted and caring service, tears were interrupted by laughter and cheers as we recalled the past with humour and fondness, our Lead Nurse presented Mary with flowers, Prosecco, a crystal vase and vouchers which she will enjoy spending.
It is now time to enjoy family and grandchildren. You will be missed Mary don't be a stranger.
Minibus outing to Hever Castle
Fantastic day out at Hever Castle. We took some gentlemen residents to see the vintage cars driven and preserved by the West Kent Veteran Car club.
The men admired Rolls Royces, a couple of Buicks, an Austin Healey amongst other beautifully looked after cars.
The day was made even better as we shared the experience with one of our sister homes Tandridge Heights Care Home - Barchester Healthcare. We enjoyed a picnic under the trees and chatted with our new friends.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
