Activities at Oaklands Care Home
Our home is always full of life, and we can thank our wonderful Activities Coordinators for this. Dedication to creating a unique and interesting activities programme is what sets us apart from other homes. We always take into consideration that some people would prefer to pursue their own interests, which is why our team strive to incorporative activities that cater to a wide range of tastes and hobbies. Our trips out are always fun and exciting as well, and residents are guaranteed to return with stories to tell their loved ones!
Anna Bate & Jo Lawn
Anna is our Activity Lead. She started working at Barchester over 14 years ago at our sister home Hilton Park. Having built strong relationships with staff, residents and families, Anna brings lots of fun to our home. Anna loves to sing, dance and laugh and generally brings oodles of joy to ours days.
Working alongside Anna is Jo who started her career here at Oaklands as a carer on Elms community in 2014 developing a passion for dementia care and completing her social care N+VQ Levels 2 and 3. Jo Joined the activity team 3 years ago and has since become the homes dementia champion, championing for a better lifestyle for our resident through staff training and regular audits.
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 Oaklands Care Home
Paying our respects
Residents and staff had the great privilege of representing the care home by placing flowers on the Queens statue situated in Newmarket as a sign of respect.
The Queen, unveiled the statue of a foal and a mare at an entrance to Newmarket Racecourse as a gift in the year of her 90th birthday.
Barchester Carnival
We had a great Barchester carnival as a joint event with our sister home Hilton Park. We had a Caribbean theme music event with singing, dancing, a tap dancing show and a delicious picnic lunch with a cocktail of choice “Barchester Bang”. Family’s joined us and even Peters son got involved with the show and some even say he stole the show!!
Oaklands Carnival 2022
Residents, families and staff from Hilton Park and Oaklands came together to enjoy some fantastic vocals from Alex Southgate, along with an energetic tap dancing show from Katie in the sunny outdoors.
We are also grateful to our wonderful catering staff for providing wonderful lunchtime cold plates!
Yorkshire Day
We recently celebrated Yorkshire day with an afternoon tea party enjoying all goodies from Yorksire.We ordered the famous Fat rascal cakes from Bettys tea room in Harrogate along with a tea loaf, we enjoyed Yorkshire tea and reading the Oomph newsletter with facts about Yorkshire whilst sharing our own tales of living in Yorkshire or holidaying in Yorkshire as small children.
Success in the garden
Gardening club meet every week on a Friday morning, they make plans of what they would like to achieve in the gardens and some weeks ago a resident was very keen to grow her own potatoes as that is what she would be doing at home, so we set to it and this month we harvested our very own potatoes and the chef cooked them for dinner. The residents chuffed to pieces with this success.
Yorkshire Day celebration's at Oaklands!!
Celebrated annually on August 1st, Yorkshire Day is a holiday that celebrates Yorkshire county in the United Kingdom. Although it originally began as a military holiday, today it has grown into a day that everyone can enjoy and Oaklands did just that!
