Activities at Westergate House Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
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.
Lee Austin
My name is Lee and I am the Head of Lifestyle here at Westergate House.
I support our residents daily to do the things they enjoy and it is extremely important to me that we are offering a premium and person centred service to each resident. I support our residents on a daily basis by providing meaningful and quality activities either in groups or on a 1:1 basis, to help encourage and build confidence while creating an enjoyable environment for everyone. Westergate House is the home of our residents, we as staff are working in it, so it is extremely important to me that we are respectful of that, while offering a premium and person centred service to each and every resident.
I am a trained actor and professional vocalist and not shy in making a fool of myself. If I do that every day to put a smile on our residents faces then I’m happy I have played my part, along with the rest of the amazing team, to brightening their day. If you hear someone singing along the corridor or see them dancing in the lounges, it will probably be me.
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 Westergate House Care Home
Valentine's Cream Tea
A cream tea and afternoon of musical entertainment was enjoyed at Westergate House to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Head Chef Chris baked an amazing array of freshly made scones and cakes that created a stunning display in our bistro area.
Head of Lifestyles, Lee, entertained our residents with some swing and big band numbers, and TreeAnna, a professional singer and entertainer, sang beautiful songs, filling the home with musical harmony.
National Pizza Day!
National Pizza Day was a great excuse for indulging in a delicious afternoon treat.
We decided to make our own pizzas for the occasion, and enjoyed creating a variety of toppings, good enough to compete with the best of the best.
There’s nothing like homemade cooking, and our pizzas were worth the effort. Even the Head Chef was impressed!
Garden Centre Trip!
Westergate House is set in beautiful grounds and benefits the wonderful Southdown's countryside on its doorstep.
We love to make good use of the beautiful location and can often be seen out and about in the Westergate House minibus. A trip to the lovely Manor Nursery Garden Centre was enjoyed by residents who delighted in tea and cake at the superb café, as well as a scenic journey via picturesque villages.
Conversation evolved, and it was a trip down memory lane as residents reminisced about days out shared with their families.
Carehome.co.uk Award
We are so happy to announce that we have received the 'Top 20 Came Home 2024' Award from Carehome.co.uk!
We have received this award in recognition that our home is in the top 20 rated care homes in our region, based on published reviews from residents and their family and friends.
Everyone at the home has been working incredibly hard to achieve high standards of care for their residents and are thrilled to celebrate this amazing achievement. Carehome.co.uk is the leading care home reviews website in the UK with nearly 18,000 care homes, 16 million+ visits per year and over 300,000 care home reviews.
A broad selection of friends and families have left glowing reviews of their experiences with the home on the website. To achieve this award is a huge team effort, and we would like to say a big thank you to anyone who left a review and helped us achieve this award.
Wreath Making
It was a whole-home approach at Westergate House when staff dressed up as their favourite story-book characters and residents judged who they thought was best-dressed.
What a fun day it was as various popular characters walked about the home. Vanessa from the admin team was voted best dressed as the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland.
In each of the communities, Christmas wreath-making took place, and the thoroughly festive day was rounded off by a mini- bus trip to a Carols by Candlelight Concert at one of the local schools nearby.
Quiz Evening
It was time to brush up on our Christmas general knowledge and trivia in readiness for a fabulous festive pub quiz held across the communities where residents, family, friends and staff battled it out for first place.
Congratulations goes to team ‘Tequila Mocking Bird’ who won by a very narrow margin of only 3 points.
A range of chocolate treats were presented as the prize and the winning team offered them out to the gathering, showing the true team-spirit and friendship shared here at Westergate House.
