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
Henfield Festival of Garden Arts
This year, 32 gardens in Henfield were opened to the general public. With Red Oaks having one of the largest Gardens in Henfield, our home was once again the centre piece, hosting 6 arts & crafts exhibitions, as well as 7 concerts over the weekend.
Awards Season
Staff member, Karen Poulter, has been shortlisted for a Nursing Times 'Nurse Leader of the Year' award - well done, Karen!
Our Divisional Winner
Congratulations to Daphne South, who has been named as a divisional winner in the 'Volunteer of the Year' category in the 2017 Barchester Care Awards.
45 Years of Continuous Service
Polly Bearman, who has worked at Red Oaks Care Home since it opened 45 years ago, has received a prestigious long service award and a personal thank you from the Chief Executive of Barchester.
Polly, aged 74, was presented with gifts and flowers on the anniversary in May and shared a celebratory meal with residents, colleagues and guests.
The party was attended by Pete Calveley; he thanked Polly for her years of dedication and presented her with a long service award.
It’s clear that this is more than just a job to Polly, who says that the people living at the home are the reason she does what she does.
After 45 years working in a care home, Polly says she has learned the importance of ‘give and take’. Yet it’s clear she has spent most of her time giving, going well beyond her job description to improve the lives of others, by doing things such as bringing in old coins for people to look at and reminisce about, or just stopping to have a friendly chat.
She is at the heart of the home, described by colleagues as ‘one of the big characters’, and always making people laugh and smile.
Cookery Club
Every month at Red Oaks, we hold a cookery club for residents. Leigh Clifford, our Head Chef, prepares the recipe cards and makes sure that all the ingredients are measured out for each table and suitable for each resident.
Most recently, residents made scones for afternoon tea. They baked the scones in our kitchen and, several hours later, they were all eating them during afternoon tea with cakes.
Helping Hands
Red Oaks has very good links with local youth groups and, several times a year, the Cowfold Beaver Scouts come to visit the home to spend time with residents and to earn awards for their efforts.
