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.
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 Red Oaks Care Home
Animal Extravaganza
Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) is a great way to stimulate the minds and senses of both the young and elderly. We have experience working alongside people of all ages with various conditions, such as dementia, autism, down syndrome and the visually impaired. Residents had the opportunity to have close physical contact with the animals, which can bring happy childhood memories of past pets.
Pictured is 'Skinny,' a hairless guinea pig also known as a 'skinnypig,' who received lots of attention from residents.
Henfield Garden & Arts Festival
For the 10th year running, Red Oaks have taken part in the annual Henfield Garden & Arts Festival. This year, 32 gardens were open to the general public to view with many having exhibitions of various arts forms on display. Red Oaks had 5 concerts in the grounds this year with many exhibitors displaying their various crafts. We also had a sculptor, 2 artists and several craft people, as well as a landscape photographer - all with displays for sale. The whole purpose of the weekend was to raise money for local charities and this year's main charity was The Haven, a charity that provides day care for elderly people of Henfield. Among the performing artists this year, we had Lori Standen, The Silver Sounds Samba Band, The Steyning Grammar School Jazz Band and the closing concert was performed by Three Penny Piece.
National Care Home Open Day
At Red Oaks we celebrated the varied lives of residents. We had a photographic exhibition showing pictures from their childhood through to their teenage years and into adulthood. To celebrate the varied backgrounds of residents, we showed other major events in their lives, all the way up to finally arriving at Red Oaks where they continue to live fulfilling lives. Cakes and refreshments were being served throughout the day, from 11:00am until 7:00pm.
Beer Night at the Henfield Club
The Activities Manager, Marilyn, took four residents for a night out at the Henfield Club for a beer. The residents were made to feel very welcome by the members of The Henfield Club, who were genuinely interested to hear about the residents and their earlier years.
Tickled Pink Productions Perform 'Around the World in 60 Minutes'
Welcome aboard Tickled Pink's Cruise Ship Show, stopping at exotic ports around the world and packed with onboard entertainment; it's bursting with great songs, dances and beautiful, glitzy costumes.
115 Years of Service at Red Oaks
Long Service Awards were given to five different members of staff at Red Oaks, for a combined 115 years of service.
General Manager, Duncan Edwards, gifted each of them some flowers, an award and a heart-warming speech thanking them for their continued dedication.
The staff members were Activities Manager, Marilyn Knight (started 1986), Care Practitioner, Sharon Haigh (started 1990), Senior Carer, Eve Mitchell (started 1990), Acting Head of Unit, Pauline Short (started 1990), and Administrator, Louise Pocock (started 2005).
