Activities at Sycamore Grove Care Home
We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.
Lynette Allen
I first worked in the care sector in 2016. I have since gained a wealth of experience in dedicated dementia and residential activities, where I was an Activities Coordinator.
The largest and best part of my role was to ensure my residents were engaged in meaningful activities on a daily basis. I do this by taking into account their life history, their interests, likes and dislikes in order to promote their wellbeing currently and for the future. Liaising with family, friends and members of the community is also part of my role and it offers continuity to the lives of our residents. I love giving people a purpose and enabling our residents to do as much as possible of the things they love to do.
I cannot wait to welcome our residents into their wonderful new home and help to bring smiles, joy and laughter to each day.
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 Sycamore Grove Care Home
Dancing the day away with Rosie's Retro Rhythm's
We had a brilliant visit from Rosie's Retro Rhythm's who brought us a blast from the past singing classic hits.
We loved getting involved, shaking the pom poms, singing and dancing along! A great time was had by all.
We love our visits from outside entertainers from a variety of different acts to singers we do have great life enrichment to lead a furfilling life.
Day Trip to Paradise Park
We had a wonderful weekend trip to Paradise Park in Newhaven, we had an opportunity to buy some early festive bits and pieces then we had a wonderful cake and coffee.
Day trips are an important part of our life enrichment here at Sycamore Grove, we choose our day trips regularly as a whole home and take outings using our on site mini bus which is fully accessible.
Arranging trips out and visiting the community
The team have been out visiting and supporting our local Polegate Community Centre. We popped in to see the amazing community Cafe held by Home Instead, everyone was having so much fun!
Thank you for having us pop by and we will be visiting much more often to come along to some of the amazing events listed in Polegate Community centre brochure.
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY
Our home was excited about our new piece of equipment.
Our new electronic dart board brought some great competition to Sycamore Grove on an evening of pub sports with nearly all the home taking part!
We are always looking for new ideas and this one went down really well.
I think we may have a few more evenings at the oche.
Our portable magic table is an incredible piece of equipment.
We love using the magic table as there are so many different games, puzzles, and apps we can use. As the table is mobile we can move it anywhere in the home and help anyone in the community with sitmulation. We especially love the way we can use it as a group, it was a great tool for us all to socialize and bonded us as we completed the levels together!
Saturday night is a special night!
Strictly come dancing is a staple of our week, last weekend we were all entertained in our lounge, wrapped up with blankets, glasses of wine charged ready to see the stars of the show!
