Activities at The Warren Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
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.
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
Hera the PAT Dog
We welcomed a new 'Pets as Therapy' dog to the home, and we are delighted to introduce the gorgeous Hera.
She is a Belgian Shepherd Dog, and she is so well-loved already. The joy a PAT Animal brings to our residents is amazing. She doesn’t know the power she holds and the love that she brings.
Valentine's Day Celebrations!
We started off Valentine's Day with a Morning Service from our local vicar, who told us the story of St Valentine as well as a prayer and the residents' favourite hymns.
We then walked into our local community and handed out love hearts to all the people we saw. Followed by a delicious lunch and a beautifully decorated dining room… Who said romance was dead!
Feeling Crafty
The residents enjoy crafts and to have them make their own personalised cards for their loved ones really makes a world of difference.
John is an amazing artist so he always turns out the most wonderful cards. His loved ones are very lucky to receive them from him too.
Terribly Terrific Terrariums
With the chilly weather and not being able to get out into the garden, we decided to bring the outside inside and made fantastic Terrariums.
We protected the residents' hands as we had a couple of cacti as well as succulent plants too. With the stones, the soil and all the wonderful desert plants, we think they look absolutely amazing.
Pudding Club
We had our first Residents Pudding club of the year, and we made a chocolate, hazelnut and Caramel Tiramisu. We served it with the residents' lunch. It was delicious and went down an absolute treat.
We will make a course or an accompanying dish for the main course each week. It might be the soup for a starter, the bread to go with it, an accompanying vegetable dish for the main course or a dessert. Each week our cookery club will produce something different.
Blowing Away the January Blues
We had a fantastic trip out to Aylsham Garden centre this week.
We then went on to have lunch at A Piece of Cake in Coltishal.
We kissed a Mammoth, wore silly hats, and we laughed non-stop after a day of silliness and fun.
