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.
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 West Abbey Care Home
Our Music Therapist in action!
Our residents love music therapy when Siska, our in house music therapist, plays and sings for a group and also on a one to one basis for residents in their rooms. Recalling music memories, words from favourite hymns, carols or songs can really help residents living with memory loss.
Our Thursday choir group are practicing for a daily carol in December to entertain our residents and staff
Today we went on a cruise sipping mocktails!
Residents had a brilliant afternoon joining Paul Hawkins and Lisa Richards from Unilever for an exciting Virtual Cruise experience. Our residents were welcomed with mocktails as Lisa and Paul took them on a magical journey to 3 mystery destinations, which were uncovered after a few clues.
Paul demonstrated how to create a few of the local traditional dishes, and our amazing chef and kitchen staff pre made the dishes for us to try while we watched. All dishes were very tasty
The Alpacas came to visit!
Residents were delighted to welcome a visit by two beautiful Alpacas today, their coats were so soft when we stroked their necks and we had to admire their long eyelashes too! They are so tame they happily went in the lift to meet our residents in memory lane and those who prefer stay in their bedrooms - lots laughter and smiles today
Special Tea Party!
Today we had a fabulous Mad Hatters Tea Party. A really fun afternoon with the activity team all in costume, our vintage china with lots of cakes and tea followed by a good old quiz all about ‘Alice in Wonderland’.
Don’t worry no one was late to this important date !!
Lifetime Achievement Award for our General Manager
We are proud to announce that Helen Colaco, currently our General Manager, has been crowned Lifetime Achievement Award Winner for the South in this year’s Barchester Care Awards and is through to the national round of judging.
More than 2,900 nominations were received from Barchester care homes and hospitals across the UK. All entries were a very high standard and Helen, initially ‘surprised’ and then over the moon to have been named the winner for the division, beating hundreds of other nominees..
Well done Helen and big congratulations from everyone at the West Abbey.
Pamper day in the Salon!
Annette, West Abbey’s hairdresser, visits us every week and works her magic on the residents hair!
Everyone always looks a million dollars when Annette has been to visit, you can certainly sense the excitement when she's in the building, and we are so very lucky to have our own in-house, purpose built salon
