Activities at Red Oaks Care Home

Red Oaks care home, has thrown a themed garden party to celebrate Pride. With the London Pride theme of #You, Me, Us, We, Red Oaks residents and staff came together to enjoyed a day to promote diversity, inclusion and education of the LGBTQ community.

Staff, residents and guests celebrated with a week of preparation, making decoration for the home and outfits for residents and staff to wear for the day. The pastry chef made a wonderful rainbow cake with for all to enjoy in the sunshine. The day was topped with a colourful socially distanced parade around the award winning garden.

Husband and wife, Mr and Mrs Dow, said it was a wonderful day and brought back memories of attending a Brighton Pride parade.

Gardening is a hobby that is enjoyed by many at Red Oaks, residents enjoy growing, pruning, watering and picking the flowers and vegetables grown.

Residents are encouraged to spend time outside in the sunshine in the beautiful gardens at Red Oaks.

The residents received surprise gifts of beautiful flowering geraniums in multiple colours, one for each resident. The gifts were donated  by the Henfield community following an appeal in BN5. Children from schools and playgroups in Henfield decorate the beautiful pots that the geraniums were in and were filled by the Haven Ground Force team.

Residents spent time choosing either to place the plants in their bedrooms or producing a fabulous display in our courtyard garden.

General manager Linda Ryan would like to thank the whole community for all their generosity, it is so kind and considerate.

Father’s day was celebrated with Father’s receiving a visit in the Garden from their loved ones.

Each visitor and Father at the home received a bag of homemade biscuits from Sam one of our healthcare assistants.

Our male residents in the afternoon spent time bonding over a beer tasting session discussing which bottled beer that they preferred.

Red oaks is currently welcoming new residents in both their nursing and dementia care communities.

Visiting in the garden commenced this week with fantastic success, reuniting families has seen smiles all round in our wonderful 3 acres of garden.

With a colourful decorated shelter for the residents to have the socially distanced visit and enjoy the wonderful setting of the garden families took lots of photos and selfies of the occasion

.National Cupcake Day has been a real treat at Red Oaks in Henfield where sweet-toothed staff and residents got out their aprons and mixing bowls to raising £225 for the Alzheimer’s Society and delivering homemade cupcakes to local residents isolating via the Henfield helpline at the Haven.

Baking is a much-loved hobby for many people who live and work at Red Oaks. The team used the occasion to host a competition staff judged by our pastry chef. Relatives and friends joined us by baking at home and entered into our virtual cupcake competition by sending in pictures of the cupcakes that they made.

Our chef made some homemade cupcakes and Red Oaks delivered these to the Henfield Haven which were distributed in the community for those that are isolating in Henfield.