Activities at West Oak Care Home
Our activities team are great at building the activities programme around the likes and interests of the people we care for. Ensuring that our social events offer fun and adventure is part of the ethos of our home; it’s important that those we support can enjoy an active and social lifestyle. Of course, there will always be those who prefer peace and quiet, and in these instances, a cup of tea and a chat are always welcomed.
Dawn Davies & Helen Fagan
Dawn and Helen are at the centre of all the activities here at West Oak. They provide an interesting and varied activities schedule and ensure that there is something for everyone. They are passionate about the importance of activities and will go that extra mile just for a smile or a raised eyebrow, whether it's one-to-one time or a group session, inside or out, fun is had by all.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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 Oak Care Home
Fun in the Sun
It was a real treat to be able to get out in our garden this month to enjoy the spring sunshine together. Residents and Relatives enjoyed a sociable afternoon getting to know each other over a generous bowl of ice cream. It was a great way to welcome our new and existing Relatives back to our Activities.
Wallace Collection
Residents and Staff really enjoyed the Wallace Collections live virtual event, with their introduction to this national museum collection. Especially the sensory walk through The Rainbow Landscape by Peter Paul Rubens which opened our eyes to a new way to look at the landscape in a more sensory way.
Garden Center
West oak Residents and Staff enjoyed a trip out to their local garden center Henry Street. On arrival the Residents were thrilled to see how many Easter decorations there were on display. The main entrance was beautifully decorated with Easter chicks, Easter baskets, Easter eggs, bunny and the favourite of all was a very large Peter Rabbit. After looking around at all the Easter selection, we wondered outside to look at all the spring flowers and bedding plants. We finished our afternoon with a cream tea and selection of delicious cakes to suit all.
St Patrick's Day Celebrations
This year at West Oak residents and staff had such a great day celebrating St Patrick's Day. We started off our celebrations with making some delicious Mocktail’s with Non Alcoholic Gin, tonic, Lime Juice & Cucumber; these went down an absolute treat!
Then to end our afternoon we made some Irish Coffee’s with nibbles and had an afternoon chin wag. The Irish Coffees were a massive hit and the residents really did have a great day celebrating!
Acts of Kindness Day celebrations
Resident's and staff have celebrated Acts of Kindness Day with the making of friendship cards to pass onto anyone they want to spread kindness to. Here at West Oak we believe it is important for everyone to remember that kindness is free and it is 'kind to be kind'.
Australia Day
Residents and staff thoroughly enjoyed celebrating Australia Day this year. We had a day packed full of different activities to really take full advantage of learning different things about this beautiful country.
We ended our afternoon by making some traditional Australian sweet treats, Anzac. Anzac biscuits are a crunchy biscuits made with oats, golden syrup and much more. These were made perfectly by a few of our residents and then later added to the Tea Trolley for the rest of our residents to enjoy with an afternoon cuppa
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.
