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
Barchester Care Awards Winner!
We are proud to announce that Red Oaks Care Home has been declared the winner of the 'Innovative Garden of the Year' catergory at the Barchester Care Awards, which occured on 12th October 2016.
General Manager, Duncan Edwards, said: “We are delighted to have won this award. I am very proud of all those who have been involved in helping our garden grow from strength to strength, especially our Maintenance Team led by Steve Martin, who built the amazing shop in our garden.”
Barchester in Bloom Finalists
Residents and staff are overjoyed that their garden has been announced as a regional winner of the Innovative Garden category for the Barchester in Bloom competition, which aims to promote gardening and celebrate the beautiful outdoor spaces that are lovingly cared for by residents, staff and the local community.
Judges were impressed by the standard of the home’s garden and picked it out as the top garden for this category in the whole of the South East.
As a regional winner, the garden automatically qualifies for the Barchester in Bloom 2016 national finals. The home will find out whether or not their garden has the best community garden in the UK at an awards ceremony in October, so fingers crossed!
Four Hairy Bikers Visit Red Oaks
Red Oaks recently installed a wish tree for residents to request things they'd like to see or experience. One of the residents wished to see some motor bikes, so resident hairdresser, Marilyn, arranged for some of her friends to turn up at Red Oaks with their motorbikes and have a chat with them.
Red Oak's Divisional Winners
Congratulations to our Home Team, who have been named as Divisional Winners in the Team of the Year category at this year's Barchester Care Awards.
Outdoor Shakespeare Production
Once again, the Henfield Theatre Company decided to hold an outdoor production within Red Oak's gardens. This year, they decided to put on a performance of Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew'. Every night was a complete sell out and many of the residents stayed out to watch the entire play. Everyone had a very good laugh.
Proms in the Park 2016
Following on from last year's very successful concert, Red Oaks once again opened its gardens to the general public for the Proms in the Park concert.
This year, the concert was held on Sunday 26th June, and it was open to anyone who wanted to attend. Lots of people brought their picnic hampers and bottles of champagne. It was a quintessentially British affair, with lots of Union Jacks and a great Pimm's tent.
