Activites at Red Oaks Care Home

Residents and staff at Barchester’s Red Oaks care home, in Henfield, celebrated Harvest Festival led by Rev. Andrew Lawton of the Henfield Evangelical Free Church.

Residents at Red Oaks enjoyed attending the service with friends and family.  The home produced a wonderful display of bread, baked by the senior head chef Leigh Clifford. This enabled residents to continue the tradition of taking a loaf of bread to a church service for harvest festival to celebrate the reaping of the crops.

Each year, our residents look forward to the Harvest Festival church service and to giving thanks. Our residents enjoy being able to carry on traditions and presenting bread to the church as a thanks to god.

Each year St Barnabas house is the hospice for the Henfield area. They support the local community, people with life-limiting illnesses and their loved ones. Care extends beyond the hospice and the team at St Barnabas support the community and us here at Red Oaks.

Wanting to say a huge thank and give something back to this worthy charity staff took park in the hospice's annual 'A night to Remember' walk a 7.5 mile night time walk around Worthing.

The Red Oaks team was led by our palliative care champions at Red Virginia and Sorina who bring there own expertise and knowledge at the home to residents and family members.

A wet Red Oaks always enjoy taking part in our Art Club each week, on alternate weeks we are joined by local school children sharing our love for painting. 

There are many positive well being effects of painting from reducing anxiety to enhance motor skills with the exercising of hands and arms improving muscle coordination, building dexterity and enhancing blood flow.

Residents at Red Oaks particularly enjoy painting flowers and landscapes. There is always a selection of art work proudly on display outside reception.

Everyone was excited for our first trip out in Red Oaks new mini bus having said goodbye and thank you for the wonderful outings in our old minibus we took delivery of brand new one.

For our first trip we visited a firm favourite of ours Camelia Botnar Garden-Centre it was fantastic to see all the changes in the seasonal plants and flowers, shopping for our Autumnal display and stop in their cafe for tea and cake. 

Our weekly outings are popular with all, changing destinations each week with requests taken from residents.

Thank to all the residents, family, friends and staff who joined us for this fantastic morning raising over £100 for this amazing cause. 

Our cupcake competition is always a firm favourite with staff. This year judged by Linda and Gabriel congratulations went to Louise for the best looking and Kelly for the best tasting cupcakes. 

MacMillan Cancer Support raises money to provide vital cancer services, supports research and campaigns to achieve better cancer care and support the cancer workforce.

A trip to the theatre to see Oliver in Chichester.

At Red Oaks we believe that every moment in life is worth cherishing and we are thrilled to share the heart-warming fulfilment of a special wish for some of our residents.

We took a trip out to go and see the oliver at Chichester Theatre. This brought back many warm memories of going to the theatre with their loved ones.

Here at Red Oaks we continue our mission to provide exceptional care and support to all our residents. We are committed to creating an environment where dreams are nurtured, cherished, and celebrated.

Each year St Barnabas house is the hospice for the Henfield area. They support the local community, people with life-limiting illnesses and their loved ones. Care extends beyond the hospice and the team at St Barnabas support the community and us here at Red Oaks.

Wanting to say a huge thank and give something back to this worthy charity staff took park in the hospice's annual 'A night to Remember' walk a 7.5 mile night time walk around Worthing.

The Red Oaks team was led by our palliative care champions at Red Virginia and Sorina who bring there own expertise and knowledge at the home to residents and family members.

A lovely afternoon, with the opportunity for residents, family, friends and the community to come together and enjoy the sounds of proms from Brass Fusion drifting through the air whilst sitting in the sunshine in Red Oaks' beautiful gardens.

With strawberries & cream and Pimm's on the menu,  there was no better way to spend the day?

The afternoon was finished off by lots of flag waving singing the National anthem and Sussex by the sea.

Our home was buzzing with excitement on June 18th when music royalty, Dave Rowntree from blur, joined an intergenerational music therapy session hosted by Nordoff and Robbins, the UK’s largest music therapy charity. The fantastic team from Nordoff and Robbins are regular visitors to the home and their wonderful intergenerational sessions as part of Henfield Community Partnership are always loved by all the residents and members of the local community, however this one was at another level!

Nordoff and Robbins are hosting the O2 Silver Clef Awards on Friday 5 July where blur, one of the most iconic and enduring bands of the last three decades, will receive the O2 Silver Clef Award. The most prestigious award of the day, the O2 Silver Clef Award honours artists of the highest calibre who continue to impact the music industry with their outstanding careers and contribution to music.

O2 Silver Clef Award winners blur have been at the heart of British cultural life for over three decades. Since announcing their arrival with debut album Leisure in 1991, blur - Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Dave Rowntree and Alex James – went on to revolutionise the sound of English popular music with six successive UK #1 albums.

The awards – now in their 48th year – raise vital funds for Nordoff and Robbins to support a wide range of children and adults. The charity’s trained music therapists enable connection and communication through music for some of the most vulnerable people in society.

In 2023, Nordoff and Robbins held nearly 50,000 vital music therapy sessions across the UK. Shaped by more than 60 years of practice, Nordoff and Robbins’ trained music therapists use the power of music to transform people’s lives by helping them to express themselves and connect with others. The charity works with children and adults at over 380 schools, hospitals, hospices and care homes, as well as providing sessions from its centres nationwide.

Dave Rowntree commented: “Today has been a truly magical experience, it really is what music is all about – connecting with people and seeing the transformative effect music has on their lives. It was fantastic to see how people’s faces lit up when they were playing and listening to the music. As a professional musician, you’re often quite far removed from seeing the real effect music has, either locked away in a studio or on a huge stage far from the crowd but seeing people’s faces up close has been absolutely wonderful. I hope to do lots more sessions like this, it has been so joyful. Thanks so much to everyone at Red Oaks for having me.”

Senior General Manager, Linda Ryan of Red Oaks said: “We always enjoy our wonderful Nordoff and Robbins music therapy sessions but we will definitely be talking about this one for some time to come! It is not very often we have actual pop royalty at Red Oaks! We have all loved having Dave come to visit us, it has been a fantastic day and we’re so very grateful to the talented Nordoff and Robbins team for all that they do for our residents. Their sessions are always amazing, they are every Tuesday 11am to 12 noon followed by our community choir session 3pm to 4pm and all are welcome to join.”