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.
Ryan Palmer
Hello, I'm Ryan and I joined West Abbey in 2018 in Hotel Services team where I was nominated 2 years running in the Barchester Care Awards by residents and their families. I moved to Activities in June 2021 which suits my outgoing personality. I know our residents well and love seeing their enjoyment of the entertainment we provide plus going out into the community on our mini bus, I have lived in Yeovil all my life so know all the best places to visit. The team call me the 'IT hero' as I'm always able to resolve the connection issues with our virtual events and our computer / tablets!
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 West Abbey Care Home
Special Tea Party!
Today we had a fabulous Mad Hatters Tea Party. A really fun afternoon with the activity team all in costume, our vintage china with lots of cakes and tea followed by a good old quiz all about ‘Alice in Wonderland’.
Don’t worry no one was late to this important date !!
Lifetime Achievement Award for our General Manager
We are proud to announce that Helen Colaco, currently our General Manager, has been crowned Lifetime Achievement Award Winner for the South in this year’s Barchester Care Awards and is through to the national round of judging.
More than 2,900 nominations were received from Barchester care homes and hospitals across the UK. All entries were a very high standard and Helen, initially ‘surprised’ and then over the moon to have been named the winner for the division, beating hundreds of other nominees..
Well done Helen and big congratulations from everyone at the West Abbey.
Pamper day in the Salon!
Annette, West Abbey’s hairdresser, visits us every week and works her magic on the residents hair!
Everyone always looks a million dollars when Annette has been to visit, you can certainly sense the excitement when she's in the building, and we are so very lucky to have our own in-house, purpose built salon
Supporting Preston Primary PTA
Our activity team took West Abbey out to the Summer Fair held by our local school, Preston Primary, and organised by their PTA. We saw some of our family and friends from the home which was lovely, also it was our pleasure to meet Evie the Mayor of Yeovil and Christine from Yeovil Press. We raised £36.50 on the splat the rat and the Pirate Treasure map game, to which we donated back to the Preston Primary PTA. Our goodie bags were a great success too!
Wine tasting masterclass
Today we joined a virtual wine tasting event, hosted by our very own Hospitality Manager, Christophe Noel and special guests Lee Isaacs DipWSET and Nick Parker from Unity Wines and Spirits.
Lee talked us through tasting a number of wines starting with sparkling and white before moving to rosé and red. Lee will provide an insight into the history of wine, wine making, consumer attitudes, as well as a few tall tales and anecdotes from his 20 years in the trade.
We all had our own samples to try accompanied by delicious cheese and biscuits, a great afternoon which we will definitely be repeating before Christmas!
Morris Dancers
Residents enjoyed an afternoon of grins with a live performance that took place in the gardens at the home. Local group ‘Dr Turbervilles Morris’ performed a selection of classic dances.
Residents joined in with tapping their feet, and clapped along as the group performed their finale dance. The staff at the home also joined in with the group!
