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
Summer Party with Harry Wykes and Stevie Ray
Residents and family had a wonderful afternoon of entertainment, Pimm's and cream tea.
Everyone danced along to firstly Harry's wonderful voice and then the music and singing of Stevie Ray.
Sitting in the sunshine there were smiles all round.
International Left Handers Day!
We celebrated International Left Handers Day, a national day launched in 1992 to spread the word and assure left handers that having a dominant left hand is absolutely normal.
Following a survey of residents we found that only one of our residents, Amy is left handed which is lower than the average of between 8-10% of society.
We spent the day trying to do things with our left hands including writing our names which brought many smiles and laughter at the results on how hard it was.
Scrabble in the Sunshine
Residents and relatives enjoy spending time in the outstanding gardens at Red Oaks.
This week we have been enjoying sitting under out fabulous fig tree in the courtyard playing scrabble.
There was friendly competition between residents friends and family filling the entire board.
Nurse of Year - South Division Winner
We are proud to announce that Gabriel Buzamurga has been crowned Registered Nurse of the Year for the South Division in this year’s Barchester Care Awards and is through to the national round of judging.
More than 2,950 nominations were received from all Barchester homes and hospitals across the UK. All entries were a very high standard and Gabriel is over the moon to have been named the winner for the division, beating hundreds of other nominees.
Our divisional winner Gabriel is through to the national finals in which the overall winner is decided. He will join winners from across the UK at a special awards event in October to celebrate their outstanding achievements and discover if they have won a national award.
Huge congratulations, well deserved!
Thank you so much – if you need to play with the words to make them better then please do.
Retirement after 25 years of service
Staff and resident celebrated Julie’s retirement with gifts and a wonderful cake made by our pastry chef. A big thank you for all the dedication and kindness that Julie has shown over the last 25 years to both residents and staff.
We will still all be seeing Julie again though as she is going to be returning as one of our volunteers.
Proms in the Park
Residents and staff of Red Oaks were very pleased to join the community in the grounds for Proms in Park.
With Brass Fusion playing classics from the proms and opera singer Sidone Winter making a special appearance to raise the roof with renditions of Jerusalem and Sussex by Sea to name a few.
All enjoyed a fantastic evening with picnics, singing and lots of flag waving.
