Activities at Winchester House Care Home
Our activities team 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, including the local priory and garden centres, as well as visits from musicians, a wide range of entertainers. We are lucky enough to have a enthusiastic team of volunteers who regularly visit the home throughout the week, and our yearly pantomime is a real crowd-pleaser and is well-attended by residents, relatives and members of staff. 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, and that life at Winchester House is fun and active.
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 Winchester House Care Home
Friday is 'Brownie Cookie' Day
Friday here at Winchester House means our fantastic head chef Matt has made his signature 'brownie cookies' for all residents and staff.
Matt is very protective about the recipe for these fabulous cookies and will tell no one of the secret ingredient.
However residents and staff don't worry to much. we are happy to just eat them
Keep them coming Matt
Fitness for All
Residents here at Winchester House, enjoy staying fit and healthy. Winchester House provide's many types of fitness sessions throughout the week, including walking around our beautiful gardens on a daily basis.
These sessions are important to our Residents as it improves Mental Wellbeing, self Esteem, and also gives them energy, so they can join in with all the Activities and fun for the rest of the day.
Entertainment
Rob T is one of our regular performers that came in to sing to our lovely Residents here at Winchester House. He sings a wide range of music, from the 60's 70's and 80's.
Our Resident's look forward to seeing Rob T, many get up and have a boogie with friends, staff and relatives.
Back to the Floor Day - Michelle our Regional Director serves lunch to our residents.
In recognition of National Customer Service Week, team members and support staff are taking part in Barchester’s ‘Back to the Floor’ initiative.
‘Back to the Floor' gives the opportunity to support teams and residents by being present and available to help and support with simple day to day tasks and recognise the great work happening every day.
Everyone working in Barchester should be able to spend time with residents, working alongside some of our team members to experience a day in the life of a working care home.
Today we were delighted to welcome Michelle Macadangdang, Winchester House's very own Regional Director, who joined staff and helped serve lunch on our Short's Terrace unit.
Michelle chatted with our residents whilst she served lunch.
After lunch Michelle said she had thoroughly enjoyed herself.
SIMPLY THE BEST
Peter Grant at Winchester House in Rochester has beaten all the competition to be crowned National Maintenance Champion in the Barchester Care Awards 2022.
The Barchester Care Awards celebrate the staff who go the extra mile for the benefit of the 12,600 residents living in Barchester’s 250 care homes and private hospitals across the country. Categories range from ‘Team of the Year’ and ‘Carer of the Year’ to ‘Dementia Care Champion’ and ‘Activities Coordinator of the Year’.
More than 2,960 nominations were received from homes and hospitals across the UK. All entries were a very high standard and Peter Grant is over the moon to have been named the national winner, beating hundreds of other nominees to the coveted title.
Peter Grant said: I was both made up and surprised to be voted divisional winner and to get to attend the award ceremony , to be crowned National Maintenance Champion is the highlight of my career at Barchester so far, especially as I never expected this for what I consider is just doing my job. I would like to thank all those who nominated me for the award and the judges who decided that it was me to be awarded the top spot this year.
Quiz Night
Earlier this month here at Winchester House we had our Charity Quiz evening.
It was a huge success. Residents and staff would like to thank our Friends, Families and community for coming to support us and our Charity.
A massive shout out to the lovely Hannah for coming to entertain us with her selection of music throughout the evening.
Congratulations to Wendy Charlesworth and Team for Winning. Second place went to Amber Aspinall and her team. Well done to everyone who took part.
