Activities at Vecta House Care Home
Our activities team are great at building the activities programme around the likes and interests of the people we care for. Ensuring that our social events offer fun and adventure is part of the ethos of our home; it’s important that those we support can enjoy an active and social lifestyle. Of course, there will always be those who prefer peace and quiet, and in these instances, a cup of tea and a chat are always welcomed.
Tanya Everson
Hello, My name is Tanya and I am the Lifestyle Leader here at Vecta House.
I started work at Vecta in June 2018 as part of the housekeeping team. I have worked as part of Activities Team for over a year and have grown very passionate in ensuring our residents have stimulating, life enriching activities available every day. I feel proud knowing I have brought smiles and laughter to our residents and love working with the great team we have here at Vecta House.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Vecta House Care Home
International Nurses Day
International Nurses Day is celebrated on the 12th of May each year to recognise the dedication, commitment and hard work all our nursing team show everyday while caring for our residents.
As a thank you our lovely resident Gill who was a nurse at St Mary's hospital for many years, proudly presented our nurses with a certificate and a small gift as a token of our appreciation with Gill receiving her own certificate and gift as a thank you for her dedication throughout her nursing career.
All our staff go above and beyond and we a very proud of each and everyone of you.
Thank you all for the love and care you show our residents each and every day.
Holy Communion on Dementia Action Week
Living with dementia can make it difficult for some residents to get out into the community so we bring the community to them to continue with meaningful activities
One of the community groups we see each month is Reverend Dozie from St. Paul's, Barton who delivers a beautiful church service with prayers and hymns. Today residents joined Michael in his room where the service was held. Michael was reading prayers, singing hymns and took part in holy communion. At the end of the service Michael told us all he felt over the moon with a huge smile on his face.
Celebrating 200 years of Cadbury
Staff and residents at Barchester’s Vecta House care home in Newport were treated to an afternoon of nostalgia and delicious memories when they were joined by Cadbury archivist Sarah Foden and Brand Manager Connor Gould for a talk from the nation’s favourite chocolate brand.
Sarah and Connor walked the Barchester residents through the story of the brand’s great success from the very first shop to how Cadbury is celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2024. They shared photos from down the years, examples of old packaging and ad campaigns from the Cadbury archive in Bournville. The carefully selected archive material tells the story of an iconic British brand, this year celebrating its 200th anniversary, which has been part of people’s lives through generations, in moments big and small. The brand’s rich history evoked all kinds of nostalgic memories for the residents who all have their own Cadbury memories.
Dementia action week
Dementia action week is from the 13th-19th May, Vecta House held a Time for a Cuppa event along with the rest of the nation to help raise money for Dementia Uk.
The afternoon events was full of fun and joy with live entertainment from HunnyBz Due who performed a ABBA concert singing their greatest hits. Residents, families and staff danced the afternoon away while enjoying a slice of scrumptious cakes.
At the event there was a cake stall filled with delicious cakes all made by staff along with handmade forget-me-not broches made by a local group the wraxall wollies with the home raising an impressive £100 for Dementia UK.
Happy St Georges Day!
Residents at Vecta House celebrated in honour of St George patron saint of England by singing along to live music with Tony from Independent arts. The home was decorated throughout giving a patriotic atmosphere with residents waving their flags along to their favourite tunes. Later in the afternoon residents in their rooms were visited by the activities team who read St Georges Day poems with some taking the opportunity to create some St Georges Day art work to display around the home.
There was lots of joy and happiness amongst residents and their family’s during the celebrations.
On The Beach Sensory Show
Spare tyre theatre group visited residents at Vecta House to deliver an interactive, sensory experience specially created for people living with Dementia.
Residents were immersed in a magical sensory experience with “ON The Beach” show. Residents, families and staff got a performance they would never forget with interactions exploring the senses of sight, sound, touch and smells as they watched the story of on the beach unfold before their eyes. The show told the story of the working life on the beach along with magic and myths. The show was for most non-verbal with performers including residents in the show with such things as mending the nets and fishing.
The benefits to our residents at Vecta House was outstanding, we saw great response to interacting throughout the hours long show with residents engaging and participating. The show brought a sense of calmness but also happiness to residents and had a powerful impact on the mind, body and soul.
