Activities at The Dales Care Home
We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.
Kay Thompson
Hi, my name is Kay and I am the activities coordinator here at the Dales. I joined the team in June 2021 and I love spending time with the residents each day, delivering meaningful activities that keep our residents active and social stimulated, more importantly we have fun! Our life enrichment programme is varied and we have lots to do!
Before I joined the home I was a lecturer teaching young individuals with high needs, it is very different being an activities coordinator but it does help with understand how to ensure everyone is happy each and every day in everything that we do.
I look forward to meeting you when you visit our home.
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 The Dales Care Home
Soap making
There is never enough soap! We enjoyed making and creating our own hand soap. Working with beautiful colours, shapes and different fragrances. Lovely doing something different and always handy having extra soap.
International Nurses Day
Some lovely art work of Thank You cards created by our residents for a special day – International Nurses Day. We cannot thank you enough for everything they do.
Sweet family
It has been a while since the Sweet family were with us last. A family of one of our residents were with us before Christmas last year and thought that now was the great time to come back. Fabulous playing their musical instruments, singing, dancing and laughing with our residents.
Name that tune!
It was 'Name that tune' this week at our popular group activity, Music for Health with Richard. The sound of singing could be heard throughout the home as we raised the roof, there was a little friendly competitiveness as we enjoyed the 'name the tune' to see who could name it first! Everyone is always dancing at this popular bi-weekly session.
Residents enjoy live performance
Residents enjoyed a fun filled May Bank holiday weekend. They were delighted to welcome popular vocalist, Lianne for a live performance. Lianne sung a medley of hits which had residents and colleagues dancing and singing along too. We are looking forward to her next visit.
National Gardening Week
A lovely day of gardening for the National Garden Week. Planting a mixture of beautiful multi-coloured flowers. As they grow and become too big for the little pots, we will re-plant them in our garden. Once all were planted we placed them outside in a good position for us to water them regularly and keep our eyes on them. We finished off with a slice of cake and a cup of tea.
