Activities at The Warren Care Home
Here at The Warren, our activities team are always very busy thinking of new ways to keep residents active, both physically and mentally. We have regular trips out in the minibus, both locally and further a field, including the London Eye and the Thames River Trip), at least once a week during the summer months. We also enjoy visits from PAT dogs and have professional exercise sessions and live entertainment, which are always popular.
Kirstie Bush
My name is Kirstie and I am lucky enough to be the Activities Coordinator here at The Warren.
I have many years of experience working in care homes in Activities and leisure and lifestyle roles.
I love being part of The Warren team and supporting our residents to live their best lives with fun, interesting, and varied activities available every week. I always feel that the importance of residents' input into our weekly planner is important giving all residents equal opportunity to explore new interests as well as keeping up with previous interests and hobbies.
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 The Warren Care Home
Decorating for Christmas
It's so wonderful to be able to get the residents involved with decorating the home for Christmas, after all it's their home, so we do as much as we can to make them feel special.
So from decorating the tree, trimming up the hall ways and placing that bauble Just in the right place, it means the world to our residents.
We all donned silly Christmas hats and got stuck in. We sang Christmas songs, we drunk snowball cocktails and stopped for a mince pie break or two!!!
It was such a fun day and the residents loved it.
Wonderful, Christmassy trip to Winter Wonderland
On arriving at Winter Wonderland we were amazed by the lights, the sheer size of the event, and how wonderful the Bavarian Christmas market was.
The residents perused the stalls, enjoyed a delicious Hot Chocolate in the Alpine Bar by the fire, watched the ice skating and thoroughly enjoyed the whole atmosphere of the Christmas event.
Handbells Ringing us in for Christmas
A wonderful afternoon was had by all, when Bellfolk Handbell ringers joined us.
The scents of mulled wine and warm minced pies filled the air while the guests arrived.
One of our residents used to ring the Church Bells as well as handbells so this was a really treat for him, he also got to ring the bells again after all these years.
What a lovely and festive way to start the season!
Getting Giddy at the Goat Shed
We had a wonderful trip out to The Goat Shed where one of our residents had always wanted to go. She has a love for farming as it was in the family and her Uncle had a milking farm.
Mary loved seeing the goats and got very excited when she saw the new addition of the cows too. She then began to tell us some funny stories of the past about milking cows.
After a cup of tea and a slice of cake, we ventured onto a cosy village pub for some lunch and home by tea time for a well-deserved rest from a fantastic day out.
Remember, Remember the 5th of November
We started our night with a welcome Mulled Cider and some toasted Marshmallows and a warm welcome. After all our guests were seated either outside by the firepit under the Gazebo or in the warmth of our conservatory, the fireworks were ready to fly.
The residents had sparklers and our main display went off with a bang.
After the display was over, everybody was treated to hot Chocolate, Spiced Pumpkin Soup, Hot Sausage Rolls, Cheese Straws and Parkin Cake. It was all delicious and warmed us all up a treat.
Cockney Knees up with Tom Carradine
We celebrated World Pianist Day in true style and had a right old fashioned Cockney Knees up and afternoon tea and cake.
Tom played the old Joanna well and had us all laughing with his jokes and hilarious quips and funny songs.
Roll our the barrel, the Lambeth Walk and more of the old favourites, we sung our little hearts out. Finishing off with the old classic, "we'll meet again" and we called out for more as it was such an amazing afternoon...and he will meet us again for sure.
