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
Scrabble Competition
We had 2 teams made up of Red Oaks residents and a team from our sister home in Shoreham by Sea, Kingsland House, to compete in a Scrabble competition. Kingsland House won but everyone had plenty of fun.
Silver Sounds Visits Red Oaks
'Silver Sounds' is a community Samba band that play all over Brighton and the surrounding areas for the past 25 years. To join you must be over 50 years old. They play at all the major events around Brighton and hold workshops in Care Homes and schools for Autistic children. They held a workshop at Red Oaks and the residents had a really wild time playing all the drums.
Best Bad Christmas Sweater Competition
For a bit of Christmas fun for the residents we had a "Best Bad Christmas Sweater Competition" in which the residents who had the worst Christmas Sweater won a prize! Many of the staff joined in and a lot of fun was had by all, it definitely got everyone in the Christmas spirit!
The Puppies Come to Red Oaks
Trudy, the lady who visits with her PAT dogs every month lets one of the the dogs have a litter every 2 years. As soon as they are old enough she brings the Mum with the litter to Red Oaks for all the residents to handle.
Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men
For the second year Red Oaks has opened its doors to the general public to take part in the "Living Advent Calendar". The idea is that everyday in December there is something going on that is open to the general public. We hosted the Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men who put on a collection of music and dances from different rural areas of the country!
Christmas Day
Christmas Day is a fun day for everyone, but for the residents we try to make it extra special with Bucks Fizz or Champagne with canapés with all the residents and relatives visiting. We have a real Father Christmas who goes around delivering presents to all the residents before Christmas Lunch in the restaurant.
