Activities at Westergate House 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.
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.
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 Westergate House Care Home
Chichester Cathedral Peace Doves
Our lives nowadays don’t seem to give us the time to stop, stare and reflect on the moment that we are in. Yesterday however, at Westergate House, we did just that.
Some of our residents took a mini bus trip to Chichester Cathedral to see the beautiful art installation called Peace Doves. It was a very humbling and moving time, not only seeing the paper doves with thoughts and prayers from members of the Chichester community on them, but knowing that Residents, Staff and Family of Westergate House contributed 100 of the 15,000 doves on display.
What made it even more amazing was that we were pretty much the only ones there. Yes it was chilly but a really wonderful trip, finishing off with Tea & Cake in the cathedral cafe to warm us up. A really lovely afternoon.
Parachute Games
What a lovely fun morning we had here at Westergate House. Our balloon tennis and parachute games were a big hit in our Memory Lane communities. It got very competitive at times, and that also included the staff too. Our amazing carers got fully involved and encouraged everyone to have a go and do their best. It made for a brilliant activity and morning. Well done everyone, we can feel a rematch coming on in December!
4 Sight Vision Visit
We were very lucky to spend the afternoon with 4Sight Vision Support on Tuesday 17th October at Westergate House. A fun packed afternoon Quiz saw our residents and our guests go head to head to be the Quiz Champions.
A wonderful afternoon tea was served during the quiz, with lots of conversations between everyone during the munching of delicious cakes hand made by Head Chef Chris and his team.
Well done to 4Sight who won the quiz this time, but we look forward to welcoming them back again in November for another afternoon of fun and laughter.
Open Day
What a really lovely day we had here at Westergate House at our Open Day on Saturday 14th October.
The home was full of music and laughter throughout the day, not to mention the wonderful visitors and new potential residents who enjoyed looking round our home with their loved ones.
Head Chef Chris and his team put together a beautiful selection of sweet and savoury treats and together, we all enjoyed some amazing entertainment.
Add on top family members walking our track to add laps to our Scotland Walking Challenge at the end of the day.
We can safely say that everyone had a great day and was lovely to meet so many new potential residents as well.
Chichester Cathedral Peace Doves
A few weeks ago we collected 100 Peace Doves from Chichester Cathedral. These paper Doves were part of an exhibition to be hung from the cathedral ceiling. Our residents and staff wrote messages of hope, prayers and quotes from the on the doves in order for their thoughts and love to fill the hearts of others. The installation opened on Saturday 20th September and our 100 doves joined a total of 15,000 others suspended from the ceiling. A beautiful, peaceful and thought provoking work of art. We are looking forward to taking our residents to see the doves in October.
Lifestyles Fun
With the late sunshine weather, we got stuck into some amazing life enrichment activities today. We enjoyed a great art morning in each of our 3 communities, painting on decorative displays and creating autumn ornaments. In the afternoon we enjoyed some flower arranging where residents got to use their creative skills once more and produce vases full of gorgeous bouquets. Our residents work was appreciated by everyone as the flowers where put on display in the dining rooms at supper time for all to see. We also had time for a musical activity too that saw residents and staff alike dancing away to some fabulous tunes. Anwar, one of our Senior Carers, showed off his dancing skills for us all and residents were very impressed. Westergate House really is a special place to live and work.
