Activities at Sycamore Grove Care Home

Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.

We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.

Enriching life
Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Lynette Allen

Activities Co-ordinator

I first worked in the care sector in 2016. I have since gained a wealth of experience in dedicated dementia and residential activities, where I was an Activities Coordinator.

The largest and best part of my role was to ensure my residents were engaged in meaningful activities on a daily basis. I do this by taking into account their life history, their interests, likes and dislikes in order to promote their wellbeing currently and for the future. Liaising with family, friends and members of the community is also part of my role and it offers continuity to the lives of our residents. I love giving people a purpose and enabling our residents to do as much as possible of the things they love to do.

I cannot wait to welcome our residents into their wonderful new home and help to bring smiles, joy and laughter to each day.

Life-encriching activities booklet Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.

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 Sycamore Grove Care Home

Ladies that lunch

Here at Sycamore Grove, this group of friends get together every lunchtime to eat their lunch, have a catch up and enjoy a natter.Our luxury dining rooms at the home are placed on each community meaning they do not become overcrowded at meal times. This makes for a much more intimate and enjoyable experience for all our residents.We are hoping the ladies invite us to join them tomorrow! 

Our Superstar Dementia Champion

It is Dementia Action Week and we are celebrating a superstar team member who always goes above and beyond to help others. Maria is the home’s Dementia Champion whose role it is to provide advice and support for the home’s residents who are living with dementia and their loved ones.We are so proud of Maria and so lucky to have her, she is a wonderful member of the team and all our staff and residents love her. She works so incredibly hard to support all our residents living with dementia and their loved ones and ensure they have everything they need, nothing is too much trouble. It is lovely to be able to recognise her invaluable contribution to the home during Dementia Action Week.
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A day in Paradise Park!

Some of our residents recently enjoyed a wonderful trip to Paradise Park and Gardens.We took a stroll around the gardens, soaking up the beautiful sights and of course we followed this with a visit to the café to enjoy some refreshing drinks. The trip would not have been complete without some shopping in garden centre, picking up some beautiful blooms for our own gardens at home. Thank you to all at Paradise Park for making us feel so welcome, we can't wait to visit again!

Our Rainbow Table

We love using our interactive Rainbow table. The table is full of wonderful games, music and learning tools that keep us all entertained. Maureen was really enjoying this colouring game, giving it her full attention until all she was left with was a beautiful piece of art! This table is full of wonderful benefits and here are just some of those:Positive effect upon well-being by improving mood, reducing apathy and restlessness, as well as increasing engagement levels especially across the mid-to-late stages of dementia.Increased physical social and cognitive activity.Increased positive emotion and reduction of withdrawn-like symptoms.An added benefit of our mobile Magic Table means that our residents can utilise it anywhere in our home; lounges, coffee area, the garden or even bedrooms – the fun will come to them! Provided to us by The Digital Rainbow Ltd visit their page for more information!

Intergenerational Fun

This week, we were so pleased to see the children from Bluebell Children's Nurseries here at the home for another visit.The residents have such a wonderful time when the children visit us. They played games, built things together and laughed a lot.These types of relationships are so important for the residents and the children leave a lasting smile on their faces. Thank you for visiting us and we look forward to seeing you again soon! 

VE Day Celebration

After our wonderful VE Day street party, we thought we would squeeze in one more activity as we enjoyed the celebrations so much. The residents took a trip down to The Red Lion to continue the party!There was amazing live music by the Landgirls 1940s entertain and of course lots of fun, singing and dancing.We enjoyed being part of the community celebrations so much and cant wait to get back to the pub!