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
Elf Day at Red Oaks
Fun on Elf Day.
Residents and staff had fun on Elf Day raising money in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society. Dressing up with lots of mischief around the home.
The sun was out enabling residents to enjoy the winter garden on our elf hunt trail. To top it we were all treated to an afternoon at the movies with of course the film Elf!
Billy Fox kicks off the festivities in style.
During the planning of the Christmas festivities residents were asked how they would like to start the Christmas festivities. Resident suggested that we started with a party and requested that Billy Fox returned to Red Oaks.
Residents, relatives and staff all enjoyed the afternoon of singing and dancing from the wonderful Billy Fox. There was plenty of Christmas tunes to sing along and dance to, it was the perfect way to commence our countdown to Christmas. You can see this in all the smiles!
A visit from the Henfield Ukulele Group
Red Oaks residents, relatives, and staff had a fantastic time when we had a visit from the local Henfield Ukulele Group. Everyone sang and toe tapped along to all the well-known songs.
Thank you all for a wonderful afternoon.
A perfect night for an outside fire.
Residents, relatives and staff wrapped up and gathered around the fire pit watching the amazing changing sky drinking hot chocolate. Once dark, the sparklers were lit, and we had smiles all around.
Returning from the chill into the warmth of the house everyone was treated to bangers and mash for supper.
Henfield Remembrance Parade
General Manager Linda and Jane today had the honour of joining the Henfield remembrance parade representing all Red Oaks residents.
Having walked in the parade and attending the service at St Peters Jane laid the wreath at the cenotaph with other residents and staff from Red Oaks watching on.
Jane was a wife of a servicing RAF officer for many years travelling the world. She said that she felt honoured, privileged and very touched that she had been asked to lay the wreath on everyone’s behalf.
Dave sprinkles magic at Red Oaks
Residents and staff were treated to an afternoon full of fun, laughter and amazement with Dave's magic tricks. Dave showed us how fun magic can be with his jokes and throughout left us all wondering how the magic happened.
