Activities at Westgate House Care Home
Our role in the home is fundamental to ensuring that our residents enjoy a fulfilling quality of life. We strive to provide a stimulating, creative & varied range of activities & events in the home, which everyone can enjoy whether they prefer social group engagement or one to one interaction. Residents choice is what we aim to provide to the best of our abilities. We enjoy being creative, sharing projects and discussing with our residents the kind of activities they would like to enjoy. Both indoor and outdoor activities are offered to cater for all tastes as well as regular outings to local places of interest.
Kelly Meadows & Sandra Joseph
Kelly and Sandra have worked for Westgate House for over 12 years, so have many years’ experience. They love having fun with the residents and providing a variety of activities.
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 Westgate House Care Home
Fundraising for Dementia UK
At Westgate House we are holding a Mother’s Day raffle to help raise money for Dementia UK. We have lots of goodies up for grabs. The winner will be announced on Thursday 24 March.
Valentine's Day Celebrations
We celebrated Valentine's Day in style with a singalong to all-time favourite love songs and romantic films.
The staff decorated the home and the dinner tables with lovely themed decorations as residents enjoyed their Valentine's feast. Many were dressed in red to mark the occasion.
It was a great day, enjoyed by all.
Community Kindness
Zelda is popularly known as DJ Zel. She has been featured on numerous media outlets and is an ambassador for Newham Music and Young Health champion. Recently she donated food items to families at Sphere Support Newham. She is a multi-award winning radio presenter, young philanthropist, entrepreneur and CEO of DJ Zel natural Shea butter products range. DJ Zel also launched her 11 for 11 campaign (turned age 11 so wanted to raise £11,000) last year to raise funds to tackle food and education poverty in Newham and some of the poorest communities in the UK.
DJ Zel wanted to donate 10 hampers of her natural hair products range to show her appreciation to the staff at our home for our hard work. The products have been approved by cosmetics assessments reports in the UK & EU.
DJ Zel and her family visited the home recently and DJ Zel said: ''I walk past this home on my way to shopping in Stratford and always thought it looked rather nice, so I did my research and thought I would like to show my appreciation and thank the staff for all their hard work during the pandemic. So would like to donate 10 hampers with my products.”
We couldn’t thank DJ Zel enough for her kind generosity and thinking of us.
Birthday Celebrations
We had an amazing day celebrating one of our residents birthday at the home recently with our head chef baking a special birthday cake for the day. Staff also decorated her room and her son also came long to join in with the celebrations and fun. Happy Birthday!
Bentley & Harley
We had a lovely visit from Bentley and Harley - the Dachshund puppies, they are only five months old. It was a great pet therapy for our residents. They had lots of fun with them and put a smile on everyone’s face. Our Activities Coordinator, Kelly Meadows brought them in as they belong to her mum.
Musical Hats
Here at Westgate House we tried out a new activity, called 'Bag of Hats'. It is a music and hats activity where each hat has a matching well known song, e.g “The Sun Has Got His Hat On”. The residents really enjoyed trying on different hats and singing along too.
