Activities at The Warren 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.
Here at The Warren, our activities team are always very busy thinking of new ways to keep residents active, both physically and mentally. We have regular trips out in the minibus, both locally and further a field, including the London Eye and the Thames River Trip), at least once a week during the summer months. We also enjoy visits from PAT dogs and have professional exercise sessions and live entertainment, which are always popular.
Kirstie Bush
My name is Kirstie and I am lucky enough to be the Activities Coordinator here at The Warren.
I have many years of experience working in care homes in Activities and leisure and lifestyle roles.
I love being part of The Warren team and supporting our residents to live their best lives with fun, interesting, and varied activities available every week. I always feel that the importance of residents' input into our weekly planner is important giving all residents equal opportunity to explore new interests as well as keeping up with previous interests and hobbies.
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 The Warren Care Home
Entertainment from The Accordion Man
We all had a jolly good time with The Accordion Man, such a talent!! Our residents sung a long, swayed in time, clapped and just had the best time.
The Accordion man goes down so well when he entertains us, he’s just one of our many fantastic entertainers that we put on for our residents.
Norfolk Broads Boat Trip
Another fantastic trip on the Norfolk Broads with the Nancy Oldfield Trust.
We started off by seeing a duck and her gorgeous babies, not 1 but 2 Herons, some beautiful river-side properties all tied in with a picnic, sunshine and a wonderful relaxing river trip.
One resident said "I'm 94 and have lived in Norfolk all my life, but I have never been on the broads." She absolutely had the best time. She was so engaged with everything that was around and soaked it all up like a Sponge...
"I had the best day, thank you," were her parting words when she left the minibus.
National Cheese Day
What better way to celebrate National Cheese Day but to hold a cheese, wine and Charcuterie afternoon in the garden for residents and their families?
With a selection of Brie, Stilton, Wensleydale and good old-fashioned cheddar you can't go wrong, all served with crackers, butter, red onion chutney, grapes and a selection of cold meats....wonderful. The wine was flowing, and the garden was busy with chatter with family.
Trip to the cat cafe!
Pussy cats and Coffee today - What a happy combination!!
This morning we spent at The Cat House - Cat Lounge & Arts Centre - Norwich . It was amazing. This was such a wonderful experience and the residents loved it. So many beautiful cats and not enough time to love them all. We met hairy cats, hairless cats, sporty cats, funny cats, chilled cats, cute cuddly cats, and one that would steal your cake if you weren't looking!!
And they were all gorgeous. Thank you to Sarah and her team for making us feel so welcome.
Oh we do like to be beside the seaside!
Great Yarmouth Seafront at its best..... We came, we ate, we conquered the Seaside
We ate fish and chips, we had ice cream, we looked at the beach in the sunshine, and we played the 2p machines...what else is there to do in Great Yarmouth hey!! A wonderful time was had by all.
Live Musical Theatre Day!
If we can’t get to the theatre, The Warren will make the Theatre come to you.
We have so many residents who love live theatre and musicals, so what better way to entertain them by hiring Clearer productions who gave us a morning of live musical entertainment.
This brought so much joy to our residents, many who enjoyed singing along to the familiar West End songs!
