Activities at West Abbey Care Home
Our Activities Coordinators are constantly striving to mentally and physically stimulate those we support by organising group and individual activities for anyone and everyone to participate in. There are regular outings in the minibus to nearby places of interest, as well as visits from the Donkey sanctuary, musicians and entertainers. We also host evenings such as our Cheese & Wine evenings and BBQ's in the summer, that we encourage relatives to come to. Activities are one of the most important aspects of a care home, so it is essential that our team are dedicated to ensuring that residents are entertained. We encourage our residents to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can to ensure that life at West Abbey is fun and active for all.
Nikki Griffee
Hi, I'm Nikki and I originally came to work at West Abbey in 2018 and have worked in various roles supporting our residents.
What I enjoy about my job is that no two days are the same and most of all, I thoroughly enjoy everyday activities with the residents including 1-2-1 room visits all the way to professional singers visiting us. A firm favourite of mine and the residents at West Abbey is using our mini-bus weekly and visiting local nature hot spots! I look forward to welcoming you to our home.
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 West Abbey Care Home
Community Donation
Staff and residents at Barchester’s West Abbey care home, in Yeovil, celebrated Easter with a whole host of different activities one being creating Easter baskets filled with lots of treats to hand out to local business’. Residents enjoyed making and filling the baskets with treats, followed by deciding where they would like them to be handed out to. After lots of suggestions the residents came together and decided they would like to gift them to Heneford Lodge Doctors medical centre, Magnolia house and St. Margaret’s hospice.
Easter Donation
Here at West Abbey we welcomed some generous bunnies from Nationwide for a tour of our home whilst they delivered Easter eggs and bunches of flowers for our residents. A huge selection of chocolate eggs were distributed around our home for our residents to select their favourite sweet treat.
Trip to France
Following our recent virtual visit to Venice, Italy. we all made our way to the First Class Departure Lounge at West Abbey for snacks and refreshments before take-off and before we knew it, touched down in our next destination, France! Residents were treated to a themed lunch of French onion soup, followed by beef bourguignon! Our trip continued with a guided sight-seeing tour of the most popular places which included the Eiffel Tower and during our visit, we made time to sample the French themed snacks and a glass of wine.
Nail Technician Visit
Here at West Abbey our residents love being pampered and we really look forward to our regular visits from Nail Technician, Meg. The nail designs this week focused on everything Easter - our nails had chick, Easter Eggs and spring flowers! We can't wait to invite Meg back in.
Scout Donation
Here at West Abbey we have held a community and resident Bingo evening to raise money for our local Scouts. Our local Scouts, know as the Europe Explorers have been given the chance to travel round Europe and see as many places they can within the 21/2 weeks they are away staying in hostels, camping and maybe one treat of staying in a hotel. The money we have raised and donated will help the young Scouts with their travels.
Music for the Soul
We have welcomed in a singer here at West Abbey and everyone loved it! Music can improve mood, decrease pain and anxiety, and facilitate opportunities for emotional expression. Research suggests that music can benefit our physical and mental health in numerous ways and can help with a variety of illnesses and disease processes – from anxiety, depression and stress, to the management of pain and enhancement of functioning after degenerative neurologic disorders.
