Activities at Oaklands Care Home
Our home is always full of life, and we can thank our wonderful Activities Coordinators for this. Dedication to creating a unique and interesting activities programme is what sets us apart from other homes. We always take into consideration that some people would prefer to pursue their own interests, which is why our team strive to incorporative activities that cater to a wide range of tastes and hobbies. Our trips out are always fun and exciting as well, and residents are guaranteed to return with stories to tell their loved ones!
Anna Bate & Jo Lawn
Anna is our Activity Lead. She started working at Barchester over 14 years ago at our sister home Hilton Park. Having built strong relationships with staff, residents and families, Anna brings lots of fun to our home. Anna loves to sing, dance and laugh and generally brings oodles of joy to ours days.
Working alongside Anna is Jo who started her career here at Oaklands as a carer on Elms community in 2014 developing a passion for dementia care and completing her social care N+VQ Levels 2 and 3. Jo Joined the activity team 3 years ago and has since become the homes dementia champion, championing for a better lifestyle for our resident through staff training and regular audits.
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 Oaklands Care Home
Valentine's Celebrations
Here at Oaklands, we enjoyed a great day dressing up in pink feather boas, hats and talking about all the things we love! Sharing time with family and friends was at the top of the list!
Community Carers Cafe
We hold a monthly community café for carers within our home and community. For December, we decided to make this a special one with our choir teacher coming in. We sang carols and had a thoroughly enjoyable time. The cafes are an opportunity for carers to meet other carers, share story’s, gain support, but also to ask advice from our experienced team and dementia champion Jo.
Farewell Reverand
We sadly said Farwell to our Reverend Sue Giles last week who has been visiting us for over 10 years, with monthly communion visits, one to one’s room visits and every Christmas eve coming along with a group of local parishioners to sing carols for us. Sue is a huge part of our community at Oaklands and we will miss her very much but wish her a peaceful and relaxing retirement in York.
Visiting our sister home - Hilton Park
Residents from Oaklands were lucky enough to be invited to our sister home, Hilton park, to see some very special visitors. Kristoff the rabbit and Alfie the pony with his sparkly shoes. The residents and families thoroughly enjoyed seeing the animals inside, Pet therapy is a fantastic resource to have within a care home, we look forward to more visits. Thank you Hilton Park for having us!
A Visit from Ivy
Pat dog Ivy visits us twice a month and the joy she brings our residents is un-measurable, other than the smile you can see on John's face. Pets are a great form of therapy for people living in care homes and it’s so important we try our best to facilitate this within the home.
Cambridgeshire Volunteer Bikers
We were fortunate enough to be on the list for a visit from the Cambridgeshire volunteer bikers, who came to visit Sunday dressed as Santa’s delivering mince pies and other goodies. The guys to took to chat with residents who were keen to look at the bikes and staff were very excited to sit on one of the bikes, as way of a thank you we have invited them back in the new year for bacon sarnies.
