Activities at Oulton Park Care Home
We have a wonderful team here at Oulton Park and we all work together to provide a stimulating, active environment for our residents that live here. We are always looking for new and innovative ideas for our residents to be part of here, and our activities coordinator works very hard on planning and providing a stimulating busy schedule of activities, as well as assisting the residents with their daily living preferences. We have regular meetings with our families and residents to make sure we are providing things to suit their preferences. We as a home are registered with the National Activity Providers Association and strive to provide a person-centred approach for our residents here.
Louise Hunter-Hall
Hello my name is Louise, I am the life enrichment and activities coordinator at Oulton park care centre.
I joined Oulton Park late 2023 but I have worked in the care industry for over 20 years and I have a compassion for my role and work. During the 20years I have supported many different adults with different care needs including, nursing care, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, independent living and 1:1 needs. I have both my level 2&3 in care and level 2 in sign language.
At Oulton my role is to create and organise a range of engaging and meaningful activities. My role brings me a great deal of comfort and joy.
If I can just make 1 persons life better during my working day at Oulton Park then the day has been a success. I feel honoured, fortunate and blessed to do the job I do.
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 Oulton Park Care Home
Open Day
We celebrated our Open Day on Saturday 27th January by having a fishing-themed day, and we started the morning off with a visit from Jennifer from the Time and Tide Museum in Great Yarmouth, who brought some interesting fishing items to look at and talk about, which sparked lots of lovely memories for residents. We then all enjoyed fish and chips for our lunch, finishing off the day with a visit from some chorus singers. Thank you to everyone who attended!
Santa Has Come to Town
Santa came to visit the residents on Christmas Eve to give them some prezzies and wish them a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Dementia Café
We celebrated the official opening of our monthly Dementia Café recently. The Deputy Mayor, Mr Peter Knight, officially opened for us, along with Pauline Mia, who will be running the Dementia Café at Oulton Park alongside the Activity Coordinators, Heidi Innes and Andrea Pullinger.
Lowestoft in Bloom Awards
Activities Coordinator, Heidi Innes and Andrea Pullinger, attended the Lowestoft in Bloom Awards and were delighted to be presented with four bronze certificates for our beautiful gardens.
They proudly collected them on behalf of the residents who worked hard on the hanging baskets and displays.
We would like to give special thanks to our Gardener, David, who puts hard work and dedication into our gardens all year round.
Barchester's 25th Anniversary
Oulton Park celebrated Barchester's 25th birthday by having a 1950s-themed celebration at our home.
We spent the morning decorating the atrium ready for the afternoon party and reminiscing with residents, who told us about the sorts of things they used to get up to in their younger days!
In the afternoon, we were joined by singer, Daz Lewis, who performed for residents and visitors.
We had lots of fun singing and dancing and everyone had big smiles on their faces.
Thank you to all wo came along to celebrate!
National Cupcake Week
During National Cupcake Week, a relative of one of the residents kindly came in to do a cupcake decorating demonstration for residents and staff. Everyone loved watching and listening to all of her hints and tips, and especially sampling the goods when the session was over!
