Activities at Ottley House Care Home
At Ottley House, we offer a person-centred activities programme, and aim to match residents' abilities and interests with meaningful activities of the correct degree of challenge that promotes their health and well-being. We also provide visual, tactile, audible and olfactory sensory experiences. There are weekly music/movement therapy sessions, 'Oomph' sessions, and arts & crafts classes to help improve, maintain and refine motor skills. We enjoy regular visits from entertainers, musicians and animal therapists, as well as pub nights, 'food from around the world' days, and minibus outings to places of interest.


Alex Evans
My name is Alex and I am the Activities Co-ordinator at Ottley house care home.
I am passionate about enhancing the lives of our residents the home and aim to bring a smile to their faces through different types of activities. My personality is warm, enthusiastic, bright and bubbly and i aim to share this each day at work. I am keen to involve the residents in the decision making within the home to enhance their experience through gathering their likes and dislikes. Come and join us for our life enrichment programmes which promote social interaction, mental stimulation and physical well-being.
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 Ottley House Care Home





Pip pops in for a visit!
Zoe, one of our nurses always brings her lovely dog Pip in to work with her. Our residents and staff love to see Pip and give him plenty of loves and cuddles.
Some of our residents say its their dog!
Pip brings so many smiles to our residents faces as a lot of them used to have dogs and it brings the memories back they may have sadly forgotten.
The staff also love pip as they love to give him a cuddle and treats from time to time, which Pip loves!


Brian’s 90th Birthday
Thursday 29th August we celebrated Brian’s big 90th birthday. He had an amazing day and celebrated with his family. They threw him a party which was held in the coffee shop. The chef made an amazing cake and his family brought him some of his favourite buffet food. We all sang happy birthday and Brian even gave us a yodel. He had a fantastic day and didn’t stop smiling.


YMCA Wellington volunteers
On Friday the 16th August we had some fantastic volunteers from the YMCA Wellington come to our home and help with our gardens. They worked so hard all day to make our gardens look amazing with our gardener Andre. Our manager Kuda was also outside all day helping with the gardens. The gardens look amazing now and we all said a massive thank you to them for coming as it was a big job.





Beach Party
On Friday 16th August we turned our coffee lounge into the beach for our residents. We had blow up inflatables, a sand pit and a candy floss machine. They got to enjoy fish and chips for lunch, which always goes down well. The residents absolutely loved it. They got to enjoy ice creams in a cone with a flake and played beach ball. There were plenty of snacks and drinks. Their favourite was the Pimm’s. We all sang some summer songs and everyone did the YMCA. We even had seagulls hanging from the ceiling. Activities staff all dress up In summer clothes to make the afternoon even better. Residents couldn’t stop talking about it for the rest of the day.




Staff enjoying a well-deserved treat
Staff were treated with a McDonalds and cans of pop at the recent staff meeting. It was a very well deserved for all the hard work from staff with all the recent changes that have been happening in the home. The staff were very great full and enjoyed every bit of the treat. There was something for everyone.





Country and western summer fete
On the 3rd of August we had our annual summer fete. We went with a country and western theme this year and it went down a treat. We had live entertainment from the amazing Mike and Barrie who sang some amazing country songs. We had our raffle, which first prize was a wheel barrow full of alcohol. Our wheelbarrow was kindly donated by Travis Perkins in Much Wenlock. We had a couple of stall from outside the home one was a crochet stall and the other was a face painting stall which all the kids loved. We had the favourite staff which was tombola, everyone always comes back for more once they’ve won once or twice. The families and residents loved sitting in our gardens enjoying the BBQ, Pimm’s and Eton mess in the sun. We had a visit from Rupert the dementia horse who went round the home to meet the residents , they loved brushing his hair. Then we even had a guest appearance from the one and only Dolly Parton. It was a great day and everyone enjoyed themselves.