Activities at Red Oaks Care Home
We believe in making a difference to the lives of people living here with us and ensure that we provide a lifestyle full of choice and stimulation that is centred around each resident here at Red Oaks. This includes a whole host of varied activities, together with regular trips out around the region, taking full advantage of the home’s minibus. Our aim is to enable each person we support to continue to do the things they enjoy for as long as they possibly can.
Sue McHoy
My role as activity coordinator at Red Oaks is ensuring that all residents have a full and varied activity program. Using our getting to know me books and knowing our residents backgrounds develop our activity program. Having lived in Henfield for the past 10 years I enjoy assisting residents maintaining and forming new the community connections.
I am passionate about my role, the part is having fun and making people smile.
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 Red Oaks Care Home
Henfield Garden and Arts Festival weekend
An outstanding weekend with Red Oaks taking part in the Henfield Garden and Arts festival. All set in Red Oaks beautiful gardens, the garden all weekend was full of music and dancing with art and craft exhibitors for all to enjoy. The sun shone down with a BBQ, tea, coffee and cakes with ice creams served by the team. Residents, Relatives and many visitors enjoyed the whole weekend.
Barchester Care Awards 2023 - Divisional Winner!
We're so happy to announce that we have been crowned for Garden of the Year for the South Division in the Barchester Care Awards 2023 and is through to the national round of judging.
The Barchester Care Awards celebrate the staff who go the extra mile for the benefit of the 13,000 residents living in Barchester’s 252 care homes and private hospitals across the country. Categories range from ‘Registered Nurse of the Year’ and ‘Carer of the Year’ to ‘Dementia Care Champion’ and ‘Activities Coordinator of the Year’.
Red Oaks very own Poet
Anne shared a poem that she has written with us.
SILVER THREADS
Our hair thin and change hue,
Our waistline disappear from view,
Our feet grow sore and cease to run, Our noses do it just for fun,
Our hands get speckled with brown spots,
Our hip expanding lots and lots,
Our necks get scrawny with the years,
Our foreheads furrowed with our fears.
But look inside each head and find
A lovely brain and eager mind,
We're here to share our deepest thoughts,
Compassion ready for all sorts,
Just think- we've lived through crazy times,
And known of wars with heinous crimes,
Don't brush us off without a say,
You'll be the same yourself, one day.
By Anne
National Garden Week
With Red Oaks beautiful gardens residents both enjoy seeing the wide variety of flowers and planting flowers.
Camelia Botnar Garden Centre join Red Oaks every month for their garden club and this month they have been helping us plant our bedding plants giving the garden immediate colour.
Kings Coronation Celebrations
Red Oaks joined in the Big Lunch with an afternoon of celebrations.
Liz and Clare opened the celebrations playing the flute and piano whilst the Henfield Scouts and cubs served the cream teas and coronation quiche.
Cream tea’s were followed by Claire singing tunes from the 60’s and 70’s whilst residents, relatives and friends danced the afternoon away in the sunshine.
International Nurses Day
Red Oaks celebrated international nurses day with both current and past nurses.
The 12th May see is the anniversary of Florence nightingales birth and the celebrations mark the contributions that nurses make to Red Oaks and society as a whole.
Nurses swapped stories of training days and memorial moments with many years of experience at the celebrations.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
