Activities at Ochil 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!
Patrycja Dwojak
Hi, I’m Patrycja and am very excited to be a part of the amazing team at Ochil.
I have been working as an Activities Co-ordinator for the last 2 years, always making sure that the programme of activities and events provide a source of fun and laughter and helps each resident to live their life to the full. Please do feel free to come and be part of it with your loved ones
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 Ochil Care Home
World Braille Day
Today for World braille day we learnt how to write our names in Braille, this was a great way to get our brains working.
It was freezing outside today so we got together for a catch up in the afternoon and had a few drinks and some nibbles. Music always gets everyone’s spirits up aswell so of course we were singing and dancing.
Strawberry celebrations
Strawberry day is celebrated in Japan on January 5th so we used this as an opportunity to spend another freezing day inside filled with lots of strawberries. We had an art class on this morning painting our own strawberry rocks and pictures, these came out really good so well done to all the residents who took part. For the afternoon we literally had a strawberry feast. Pancakes and scones with strawberry jam, strawberry jelly, strawberry cake donuts and biscuits, strawberry milkshake fizzy juice and wine and of course lots of strawberries
Motivation Monday
Some monday motivation for everyone .... Today we tried something a little different, we asked everyone what their advice would be for everyone coming into 2022. “Kindness begins with understanding that we all struggle”. Always be kind to everyone around you
Christmas raffle
Our Christmas raffle was drawn today with lots of staff and residents winning prizes. Majority of the winners seemed to be coming from staff and residents within our Memory lane unit they were definitely on a lucky streak today anyways. Bill was also in luck winning 4 prizes 2 of which was gin so he was happy with that.
Well done to everyone who won prizes and thankyou to everyone bought raffle tickets and donated gifts for us. We raised £161 to go into our residents activity fund which will help keep us busy and entertained in the new year.
Christmas crafts
Always lots going on in the lead upto Christmas, here is some of our Christmas crafts we’ve been creating over the festive period.
We have our painted decorations on our tree upstairs and Molly has put hers in her new tree in her room to. We have lots coming up to look forward to over the next few weeks, we are going to Perth theatre on Saturday to see Cinderella the pantomime and we can’t wait.
Festive cocktails
We created our own cocktail trolley and hosted a cocktail making class today. As you can see this was a fun afternoon for everyone who came along, most of them has never had a cocktail before so these went down a treat.
Upcoming events
Volunteers - Could you make a difference?
Your time could make a difference! For more information on Volunteering at Ochil please get in touch we'd love to hear from you.
