Activities at The Warren Care Home
Here at The Warren, our activities team are always very busy thinking of new ways to keep residents active, both physically and mentally. We have regular trips out in the minibus, both locally and further a field, including the London Eye and the Thames River Trip), at least once a week during the summer months. We also enjoy visits from PAT dogs and have professional exercise sessions and live entertainment, which are always popular.
Kirstie Tifrani
My name is Kirstie and I am lucky enough to be the Activities Coordinator here at The Warren.
I have many years of experience working in care homes in Activities and leisure and lifestyle roles.
I love being part of The Warren team and supporting our residents to live their best lives with fun, interesting, and varied activities available every week. I always feel that the importance of residents' input into our weekly planner is important giving all residents equal opportunity to explore new interests as well as keeping up with previous interests and hobbies.
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 The Warren Care Home
Queen of the Broads
We boarded the minibus, this time to go to Wroxham, where we were booked on a river boat trip for 2 hours. After eating our packed lunches on the bus, we boarded 'The Queen of the Broads' and went as far as Horning Reach and then made our way back to Wroxham, passing the former home of George Formby en route.
Southwold Trip
This will be out last trip to Southwold in 2017. It was another lovely day out, and everyone is looking forward to next year, when they reopen in February.
Keeping Busy
We are always keeping busy here at The Warren, and this time it was with a mixture of colouring and word searches, both of which went down very well. In fact, one resident became quite hooked on the word search and asked her daughter to get her some books from the shop.
Elvis is Back!
We welcomed the King of Rock 'n' Roll back to The Warren again. As always, this was a very entertaining evening, with much dancing and swaying going on. We are looking forward to his next visit!
Taverham Garden Centre
We had another afternoon out, this time for tea and cakes at the Taverham Garden Centre, where we also did a bit of shopping.
Life on the Railways
James Beswick – or 'Jim', as he is known – started his life on the railways at Northwich, Carlisle when he was just 15 years old, first as a fireman and eventually climbing his way up the ladder into the role of a driver.
Jim moved to Norwich Station when he was 17 on a transfer in 1949, where he eventually met his future wife and they married in August 1951.
Jim became a driver and eventually drove the famous Flying Scotsman; at this time, Jim would have been in his late 20s/early 30s.
When Jim eventually finished driving, he became a foreman; at this time, he would have liked to take an early retirement, but he appeared to be invaluable, as he was asked to stay, finally retiring at 65, still at Norwich, where he had been since that transfer back in 1949.
Jim had many happy hours doing the job he loved and his family have many photographs of him and his trains.
On 11th November 2017, when the Flying Scotsman visited Norwich Station again, Jim, now at the age of 92, was reunited with the famous engine as a surprise by the activities team at The Warren, where Jim is now happily living.
