Activities at West Abbey Care Home
Our Activities Coordinators are constantly striving to mentally and physically stimulate those we support by organising group and individual activities for anyone and everyone to participate in. There are regular outings in the minibus to nearby places of interest, as well as visits from the Donkey sanctuary, musicians and entertainers. We also host evenings such as our Cheese & Wine evenings and BBQ's in the summer, that we encourage relatives to come to. Activities are one of the most important aspects of a care home, so it is essential that our team are dedicated to ensuring that residents are entertained. We encourage our residents to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can to ensure that life at West Abbey is fun and active for all.
Ryan Palmer
Hello, I'm Ryan and I joined West Abbey in 2018 in Hotel Services team where I was nominated 2 years running in the Barchester Care Awards by residents and their families. I moved to Activities in June 2021 which suits my outgoing personality. I know our residents well and love seeing their enjoyment of the entertainment we provide plus going out into the community on our mini bus, I have lived in Yeovil all my life so know all the best places to visit. The team call me the 'IT hero' as I'm always able to resolve the connection issues with our virtual events and our computer / tablets!
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 West Abbey Care Home
Reminiscence with Jan
Another amazing Reminiscence session with residents favourite visitor Jan Millward.
This time we went back in time to look at working people like tailors and farmers. Jan then took us on a trip back to when ladies used to do embroidery, making gloves and the items that they used. We had a look at many items from old sewing books and items that had been made like a patchwork blanket, a tea cosy, all the gadgets used from darning mushroom, to lace work and an old singer sewing machine.
Not only does Jan bring all her interesting items to show us but she’s full of the knowledge and stories behind it, this allows her to connect with our residents on such a unique level.
West Abbey creates their own Platinum Jubilee Pudding!
Excitement is running high at West Abbey as we have been cooking up a storm to enter the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pudding Competition today.
The competition is being run by Fortnum & Mason to create a pudding that the whole nation can bake for themselves and that will be served not only at Jubilee parties up and down the country, but to the Queen herself to celebrate her 70 years on the throne.
We put our heads together and donned our aprons to come up with a scrumptious pudding that we think encapsulates the Queen’s reign. Our fabulous pudding is called Strawberry Jewelled Crown with layers of crisp biscuit, chocolate and strawberry cream we are very happy how it turned out. As you can see we all enjoyed the tasting too!
Our Window Wanderland entry!
Residents and our activity team have been planning and working on our Yeovil Window Wanderland entry and its looks amazing! With spring around the corner our blossom tree brings a smile to the faces of our visitors when they arrive at reception and for residents in the dining room, fabulous effort team
RSPB's BIG garden bird watch 2022
The RSPB’s big bird watch has begun here at West Abbey! To start the event our residents got creative in designing there own salt dough bird feeders.
We then put our knowledge to the test with an A to Z of birds followed by a quiz all about our feathered friends!
We’re all ready to get our binoculars out over the weekend to spot as many birds as we can and report back on everything we see here in Yeovil!
New Year Celebrations
From everyone at West Abbey we wish all our residents, family’s and friends a happy New Year.
We seen in the night in by raising a glass or two of wine or whisky and a good sing song
Christmas show!
We all enjoyed Jan McNeil's Christmas show this afternoon, Jan is a popular singer with our residents and her festive show, complete with her lovely red outfit was perfect for Christmas Eve!
