Activities at Wykeham House Care Home

Whilst we don't celebrate Halloween with Spooky Parties our residents still love a good Pumpkin. Residents took a trip to a local Pick Your Own Pumpkin patch, at Tulleys Farm and got involved in selecting the pumpkins that they will then create floral decorations in on Halloween. The residents enjoyed watching the children picking the biggest pumpkins for their parents to carry home and then picked their own smaller and more unusual pumpkins. We really did see it all… for those who thought pumpkins were all orange you couldn’t be more mistaken there was a huge range black pumpkins, red pumpkins, white pumpkins, pumpkins with warts and all different shapes and sizes!

Residents at Wykeham House were overjoyed to meet Joey who is Rachel the activities lead’s cat. Joey came in to see a resident in her room as her wish from our resident wish tree which can be found in our reception area. Joyce’s wish was to see a cat. Joyce loved her visit from Joey and he was so well behaved he took a trip around the rest of the home. Joey loves cuddles and a bit of attention so he was more than happy to meet our residents.

A carer at Wykeham House in Horley put the ‘fun’ into ‘fundraising’ with doing a charity skydive to raise money for The Royal Marsden.

Peng Li-Poole is the deputy manager at Wykeham House and has been worked for Barchester for 8 years.

Peng skydived on the 22nd October 2023 in Salisbury. This was Peng’s first time skydiving, and they raised a total of £410 for the charity which is “a world leader in cancer care, pioneering treatment and ground-breaking research.”

We strive to make sure residents at Wykeham House have access to whatever they want or need. One of our residents has been talking about doing something different with her hair for a while. She wanted to add some colour. Every time she saw Rachel's hair she said she wanted pink. Rachel made this happen and Val looks gorgeous with a flash of Pink! She was treated by Rachel to the full salon experience in our very own hairdressing suite. She had her choice of music, magazines and beverages and Rachel and Val sang and danced together to Elvis!

We recently took a trip to the garden centre after raising an amazing £698.89 at our summer fete to look at what water features we would like to get for our garden areas! The ladies enjoyed exploring the Garden Centre. Our respite resident was so glad that we got the opportunity to go here as this is somewhere she knows well and it allowed her time and space to have a potter around before re-joining the group for tea and cake in the café. On our way home we also took a drive to Oaks Park where our residents husband has a lovely memorial bench and drove over Epsom Downs as one of the ladies who attended the trip used to visit regularly for the horse racing.

We soaked up some of the last of the summer sun on a recent trip to Reigate Priory Park. Our gents enjoyed a walk down to the lake to look at the wildlife! We saw an amazing array of ducks and birds and enjoyed a lakeside picnic prepared by our very own kitchen before heading back towards the Ice Cream Van on the way to our minibus. Our residents had a wonderful day out!