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
Christingle
It was so lovely to have so many families join us for our visit from Reverend Anne from St. Luke’s church.
We all sat together and made ‘Christingles’. Each element of a Christingle has a special meaning and helps to tell the Christian story: The orange represents the world. The red ribbon (or tape) symbolises the love and blood of Christ. The sweets represent all of God's creations.
It was great spending time together - enjoying each other’s company and listening and singing carols.
What a wonderful morning!
Animal Therapy
We enjoyed a lovely morning last week with a visit from White Rocks Farm.
The residents enjoyed meeting the animals and baby Scarlett in the communal rooms and in their individual rooms.
The residents enjoyed lots of cuddles with the animals and seeing how much baby Scarlett had grown. As you know, these positive interactions with an animal lead to benefits in the mind and body, such as reduced stress and an overall more balanced mental state and of course, happiness.
We look forward to seeing them all again in the New Year.
Christmas Lights Switch On
We are looking and feeling very festive at Emily Jackson House.
Thank you to the Mayor of Sevenoaks for coming to our Christmas light switch on recently.
We really appreciate you taking the time to come. We enjoyed our mince pies and hot chocolate in the warmth of the 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!
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.
