Activities at Dovedale Court 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.
Brian Sandham
My name is Brian, I’m the activities coordinator down here at Dovedale. I’m new to the care sector, I’ve been a photographer and photography tutor since 2004 dealing with different ages groups and abilities. I’m looking forward to putting my people skills to good use down here at Dovedale.
I might be new to the care sector but I’m super looking forward to spreading a bit of extra sunshine and cheer around the 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 Dovedale Court Care Home
When Elvis came to visit
What a great afternoon we had when Elvis ( aka Eddie P) came to play. The music was rocking and people were dancing and singing along. Eddie even stayed behind to meet all the residents that attended. Eddie will be coming back soon.
Shopping Trip
We took a little trip over to Capital way retail park, Preston. Our resident's sure know how to shop as we stopped to look at everything. We definitely needed a coffee stop to recover. Not back at the home 10 minutes and they were already asking to go back soon.
Christmas Treats
From Cocktails to Gingerbread houses we had fun making and eating some fabulous treats. We had the most fun building our own gingerbread village. It kept collapsing so we added more and more icing and just when you’d thought you’d won it collapsed some more. We did get there in the end and the very next day it got devoured by all. The plans are to go bigger and better for 2024.
A Visit to local Owl Sanctuary
During the week leading up to Christmas we decided to wrap up and visit our local owl sanctuary. Wow what a great selection of Owls and birds of prey. The resident thoroughly enjoyed the trip, The staff at Turbary owl Sanctuary where brilliant and have said we can have a go at flying them on our next visit so watch out for the pictures of this.
Residents Christmas Party
We had a fantastic day starting with a Christmas Buffet followed by a party with singer Tom Collins. Tom did an excellent job and sang a nice set of Christmas songs. Residents danced and sang along all afternoon. The smile on their faces said everything. If that wasn’t enough then later the same evening we had a visit from a professional choir. This really did kick the spirit of Christmas of nicely.
Home receive 'Good' rating in recent inspection
Dovedale Court on Dovedale Avenue, Ingol in Preston passed a recent Care Quality Commission inspection with an overall “Good” rating after being praised for a responsive, safe, effective, caring and well-led service.
The CQC inspected the home on the 14th and 16th November (the report was released on 12th December) and rated the home, run by Barchester Healthcare, as “Good” overall.
The report stated that there were, “Staff deployment was effective; we received feedback about consistency at the home and the positive impact this had on people. A relative said, "The staff know [person] so well and understand their needs, this helps keep [person] safe.
