Activities at Red Oaks Care Home
We believe in making a difference to the lives of people living here with us and ensure that we provide a lifestyle full of choice and stimulation that is centred around each resident here at Red Oaks. This includes a whole host of varied activities, together with regular trips out around the region, taking full advantage of the home’s minibus. Our aim is to enable each person we support to continue to do the things they enjoy for as long as they possibly can.
Sue McHoy
My role as activity coordinator at Red Oaks is ensuring that all residents have a full and varied activity program. Using our getting to know me books and knowing our residents backgrounds develop our activity program. Having lived in Henfield for the past 10 years I enjoy assisting residents maintaining and forming new the community connections.
I am passionate about my role, the part is having fun and making people smile.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Red Oaks Care Home
Charity Donation
Residents and staff at Red Oaks have once again become involved with the MORE Radio Ten Thousand Tins appeal, supporting food banks and charities in Sussex. This is the second year that the staff have collected for them.
Whilst doing this, a couple of residents saw in the West Sussex County Times the Horsham Matters campaign to also collect tins of food for people finding things tough at the moment, so a second collection table was started, with residents Valerie and Vera enjoying themselves, checking that all the tins were in date.
We Are Divisional Winners!
We are excited to announce that we have been named as Divisional Winners in the 2020 Barchester Care Awards in the Garden of the Year category. We have been invited to attend a virtual awards ceremony on 8th October, where we will find out if we have won overall.
Also, congratulations to Marilyn Knight, who has been named as a Divisional Winner in the Lifetime Achievement category.
Our Party to Celebrate 'Pride'
Red Oaks care home, has thrown a themed garden party to celebrate Pride. With the London Pride theme of #You, Me, Us, We, Red Oaks residents and staff came together to enjoyed a day to promote diversity, inclusion and education of the LGBTQ community.
Staff, residents and guests celebrated with a week of preparation, making decoration for the home and outfits for residents and staff to wear for the day. The pastry chef made a wonderful rainbow cake with for all to enjoy in the sunshine. The day was topped with a colourful socially distanced parade around the award winning garden.
Husband and wife, Mr and Mrs Dow, said it was a wonderful day and brought back memories of attending a Brighton Pride parade.
Gardening for Well Being
Gardening is a hobby that is enjoyed by many at Red Oaks, residents enjoy growing, pruning, watering and picking the flowers and vegetables grown.
Residents are encouraged to spend time outside in the sunshine in the beautiful gardens at Red Oaks.
Resident enjoy plants donated by the Henfield Community
The residents received surprise gifts of beautiful flowering geraniums in multiple colours, one for each resident. The gifts were donated by the Henfield community following an appeal in BN5. Children from schools and playgroups in Henfield decorate the beautiful pots that the geraniums were in and were filled by the Haven Ground Force team.
Residents spent time choosing either to place the plants in their bedrooms or producing a fabulous display in our courtyard garden.
General manager Linda Ryan would like to thank the whole community for all their generosity, it is so kind and considerate.
Fathers Celebrations at Red Oaks
Father’s day was celebrated with Father’s receiving a visit in the Garden from their loved ones.
Each visitor and Father at the home received a bag of homemade biscuits from Sam one of our healthcare assistants.
Our male residents in the afternoon spent time bonding over a beer tasting session discussing which bottled beer that they preferred.
