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.

Enriching life
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Nikki Griffee

Activities Coordinator

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

Fun and Games, Snakes and Ladders at West Abbey

This afternoon, some of our residents and their family members enjoyed playing a game of snakes and ladders on a HUGE game-board featuring one hundred squares, which was placed in the middle of the floor in one of our lounges.

This Classic game, fun for all ages, is based on the outcomes of rolling a dice and moving your coloured counter up the ladders and down the snakes, but if you roll a 6, you get another roll for free and the objective is to get to the top of the board, whilst dealing with the consequences of each roll of the dice.

Climbing ladders and dodging snakes was so much fun and laughter was heard outside the lounge and all the way along the corridor, as well as the "oh no’s" as players were sent slithering down the snakes!!!

West Abbey Care Centre and singing Golden Oldies - Yeovil's got talent

Some of our residents recently boarded the minibus for a short journey to join local singing group 'Goldies Sing & Smile UK' known simply as “Goldies", now in its sixteenth year and endorsed by Sir Cliff Richard (Patron), at Mudford Recreation Centre.

We enjoyed a sing-a-long to some popular, well-known songs including 'YMCA' with all the actions as well as more recently recorded songs.

It was nice to meet up with some of our residents' relatives and we look forward to attending another session again soon - watch out 'Britain's Got Talent', here we come.

Robbie, Resident Ambassador - Care Awards Finalist

Resident Ambassador awarded to Robbie, everyone's favourite at West Abbey

CONGRATULATIONS to our Resident Ambassador, Care Awards Runner Up, Mr Robert Ryan (Robbie) from everyone at West Abbey Care Centre - Barchester Healthcare where Robbie has been a resident for over two years.

Robbie was nominated 'Resident Ambassador' to acknowledge his outgoing and friendly nature, shown towards his fellow residents, staff and visitors to our home.

His favourite thing to do is to speak to our visitors when they arrive, and making them feel welcome with his friendly smile, quick wit and charm to put everybody at ease - we all love you Robbie!

Minibus adventures for residents at West Abbey Care Centre!

Today's trip was a tour of local villages and time to stop and enjoy refreshments - hot chocolate and tasty home-baked treats and a browse at Hamish's Farm Shop & Cafe with some of our residents.

We were made to feel very welcome by the friendly staff and look forward to next time to continuing our intrepid travels to who knows where?

Staff and Residents at West Abbey Care Centre 'Wear it Pink' Day

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, a chance for people to Wear It Pink, get involved in raising funds and find out more about how to check themselves and what to do if they find any symptoms of breast cancer.

On October 20th, staff and residents all came together to raise funds and awareness for 'Breast Cancer' https://awareness-days.co.uk/awa.../wear-it-pink/2023-10-20/ by 'wearing it pink', by organising a pink-themed, cake bake sale. Wear if Pink takes place on the last Friday in October each year to help make life-changing breast cancer research and support happen.

We all enjoyed being involved by wearing pink coloured outfits and accessories to show our support for the amazing work this charity does for men and women who are diagnosed with breast cancer.

When they're scone, they're gone!!

Friday morning and we’ve been cooking up a delicious baking storm here at West Abbey!

Residents and staff gave well deserved praise to our 'star baker' Diane, who stepped up to the plate, and led our scone-making operations, sharing useful tips and tricks to baking the perfect scone which was all down to the method of how to out the ingredients together, with an extra pinch of love!

The residents all enjoyed reminiscing and sharing their fond memories of baking with their loved ones throughout the years as children and adults.

Watch 'this;' space for details of more tasty treats we whip up next time!