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.
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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 The Warren Care Home
Get Barchester Moving
We kicked off this month's charity event, "Get Barchester Moving," with our General Manager, Elizabeth, starting off the event on our exercise bike. The aim was to cover 250km in our Bicycle Bash to raise money for the Barchester's Charity Foundation.
Well done to everyone who participated—friends, relatives, and even residents joined in, and together we surpassed our target by a significant margin. The money raised has been banked and will support a very worthy local community cause.
Trip Out for the Ladies
We had a wonderful trip to Norwich Cathedral, and the sun was shining, so we took a picnic along and ate it by the river. It was such a beautiful day, and to top it off, we fed the swans what we couldn’t finish. Absolute perfection.
Cocktails and Dancing
Friday night was for dancing and cocktails so we invited Josh Lee to entertain us and we had a wonderful time. From “New York, New York” to Sweet Caroline, we sung them all and danced to most of them. We had the bar open with cocktails and not forgetting night caps to finish.
Trip out for the Knit and Natter group
After we heard about a 94 year old lady who knitted Sandringham House we just had to go and visit her exhibition. The Knit and Natter group got together and visited the Makers Market in the city. We were all absolutely stunned at the work she had done, we even got to meet the maker ourselves and have a lovely chat with her. We finished off our morning with Fish and Chips as a popular restaurant in the city, after some shopping it was home for tea.
St Georges Day
Handkerchief waving and Afternoon tea was the plan of the day when we invited Holt Ridge Morris to entertain our residents for the day.
The residents loved their day and really enjoyed the dancing and the folk songs played. We all joined in at the end and waved our napkins to show our support. What a wonderful day all round.
Flowers for all on Mother’s day
We had a local resident and her grandchildren deliver flowers to all of our Mothers here at the home. They were each given a single rose by the cute little girl and they loved it. We adore how our community comes together and supports our residents, such a kind and thoughtful thing to do.
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.
