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
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.
Christmas party
We had an amazing Christmas party today, we had lots of new faces that have joined us over the year who came along and we shown them how much fun we can have at our parties. Our Santa themed fruit skewers were definitely a favourite for all our residents today. We were singing and dancing along to Christmas songs, playing some Christmas games and Maebel won sticking the nose on Rudolph.
Magic of the Nutcracker
We experienced the magic of the Nutcracker with a special interactive workshop led by English National Ballet Associate Artists.
Our residents were able to take a magical journey thorough Edwardian London and to learn more about the enchanted Nutcracker characters: Clara, the Mouse King, and her valiant Nutcracker doll.
The session included a chair-based dance workshop, clips of the ballet on stage and a Christmas carol sing-along, truly enjoyed by all.
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.
