Activities at Ouse View Care Home

Residents enjoyed an afternoon of grins with a live performance that took place at the home. Local group Drama Kids York performed their end of term production all about aliens.

Drama Kids York is a local drama school for children aged 6-16 that teach children to perform on stage by building their confidence through drama and acting games. The activities team reached out the class to see if they wanted to come and perform for the residents. They used the time to perform a fantastic play they had been practising as their dress rehearsal. After the show they played some acting games to show the residents what else they get up to in class, some residents even joined in!

Staff and residents are celebrating because their wonderful Managing Director, Fiona Fagan, from Barchester’s North East and Scotland Division, has stepped completely out of her comfort zone to compete in the Barchester Charitable Foundation Cook Off 2024.

Fiona went head-to-head with the Managing Directors from Barchester’s four other divisions and cooked up a storm to raise a phenomenal £24,595 for Barchester’s Charitable Foundation which helps connect vulnerable people and those living with a disability to community groups in their local area by providing grants to improve mobility and quality of life.  Each year the Foundation distributes thousands of pounds to individuals, small community groups and charities across England, Scotland and Wales.  

Residents and guests enjoyed an afternoon of grins with a live music performance that took place at the home. Local singer Trevor Woodhead performed a selection of classic hits from several artists including Elvis Presley, Elton John, Status Quo and Frankie Vallie.

Residents joined in with the singing, and clapped along as the band performed their finale song Delilah by Tom Jones. Residents were delighted to receive visitors from the local community Cathy and Sue who joined them for the concert and enjoyed a lovely glass of wine with the residents

Residents across our homes had a fantastic time exploring the Eden Project virtually - an educational charity and visitor attraction based in Cornwall, featuring sprawling outdoor gardens and breathtaking biomes that house the largest indoor rainforest in the world.

During the session, residents who joined were reconnected with nature through their senses, memories and stories.  A big thank you to the community team at the Eden Project for the wonderful event.

Ouse View was full of animal mischief on Thursday when the Joe’s exotic mobile zoo came to visit the home. Residents at Ouse View were pleasantly surprised to see meerkats roaming around their lounge as Joe’s exotic mobile zoo paid a visit. The meerkats were in a 6 by 6 run and stayed for an hour playing with each other, there were 3 meerkats.

General Manager said: “Our residents have really enjoyed their unusual visitors today.  We knew that having the mobile zoo here would be a bit of fun for all our residents, especially as some find it difficult to go on many outings in our minibus.  We are always looking for new activities for the residents and today we have seen the seen the enjoyment and the therapeutic influence animals can have on people. To see the faces of the residents light up when they saw the meerkats was a delight yesterday.”

Staff and residents brewed up a storm for National Cream Tea Day on June 28th by hosting an afternoon tea party in the foyer with local policemen, a wonderful selection of baked treats and of course, lots of lots of tea. Refusing to pick a side in the controversial debate of cream before jam for the Cornish tradition or jam before cream as part of the Devonshire tradition, Ouse View enjoyed homemade scones both ways, all washed down with a fes-tea-val of herbal and classic teas.

Residents and visitors tucked into the sweet and savoury goodies including cream cakes and scones, all baked by talented chef Loic. The residents were delighted when two policemen from Fulford police station joined them for cream tea and spent over an hour talking to them