Activities at Forest Hill Care Home
We are a team of four activity organisers here at Forest Hill. We have a wide range of activities within the home including: musical entertainment, Arts & Crafts, Clubs for like minded people such as flower arranging and gardening, board games, baking (where the best bit is the eating afterwards!), and we celebrate special events throughout the year, such Easter, Mothers Day & Fathers Day and Christmas. We also have trips out on a regular basis using our own minibus, where we find out places of interest each person would like to visit. One of our more popular trips is to the local ice cream farm. We recently fulfilled one of our ladies dreams to visit the Chelsea Flower Show, something she had always wanted to do.
For our ladies and gentlemen who are nursed in bed, we have one to one times, which may be hand or foot massage or reading, & listening to music. We encourage families to get as involved as they can with activities and outings and have recently created a Terrace Cafe area, where visiting families can take their loved one for tea & biscuits and spend valuable time together.
Sue Bestwick
Sue arranges activities and outings for our residents and makes each day as interesting and stimulating as possible for them. Sue's bubbly enthusiasm and determination to put a smile on people's faces is a real asset to Forest Hill. Sue is always keen to get family members involved too so that they can share happy, fulfilled and quality moments with their loved ones.
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 Forest Hill Care Home
Give Back Friday
Staff at Forest Hill are taking it in turns at ‘Give Back Friday’ – this is a fantastic opportunity to say thank you to the team at Forest Hill for their hard work and dedication.
In Loving Memory
A memory bench was donated to the home in loving memory of Margaret, one of our lovely residents who sadly passed away recently.
Margaret’s family wanted all staff and residents at Forest Hill to enjoy time sitting at the bench, thinking of all the great memories they have of Margaret.
Give Back Friday
We have started doing a ‘give back Friday’ for staff just to say thank you for their hard work and dedication.
Carousel Music Theatre
Residents enjoyed a visit from the fabulous Carousel Music Theatre. Some residents are not able to visit the theatre anymore, so we arranged for the fantastic people from Carousel to give us an ‘in-house’ theatrical experience to remember. It was an absolutely marvellous afternoon full of music and laughter, and residents had a great time!
Gingerbread Decorating
Residents had a wonderful evening of decorating their own gingerbread biscuits. There were some creative designs by all who participated and they really enjoyed eating their creations afterwards!
Residents told us that they really loved the activity thanks to our care staff—especially Lou & Andy on our admin team—who helped to organised this lovely evening.
Reminiscence Session
We had the lovely Jane Harrison come to show us pictures and talk about 'Bygone Bridge Street', which is an area in Worksop that most of us here are familiar with. Residents really enjoyed the time with Jane and it certainly stimulated some conversation!
A huge thanks to Jane for bringing in the artwork and her knowledge of the area, and to our Activities Coordinators, Mags and Sue, for arranging this lovely session for the residents.
