Activities at Westvale House Care Home

With Christmas just around the corner, Residents have enjoyed fun-filled days with a variety of life enrichment activities from baking and decorating the Christmas cake, decorating the trees and adding that touch of sparkle and glitter to the home, virtual events and having a lot of fun along the way!

Last week Residents enjoyed celebrating the Jewish festival of Hanukkah where they watched a live virtual talk by Geoff Pearl, who was happy to do a Hanukkah celebration with the Residents. Geoff talked about the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, which commemorates the rededication during the second century B.C of the second temple of Jerusalem, also known as’ The Festival of Lights’.

As Geoff went through the service, we lit the first candle on the Menorah. It was also an interactive session as Residents were able to ask Geoff questions.

Resident, George also celebrated his 80th years young with a small party. George was so happy to be able to have his birthday party alongside celebrating Hanukkah, as George used to be very close to the Jewish community when he had his own carpet business.  Happy birthday George!

Throughout December, Residents have been busy counting down to Christmas with their busy life enrichment programme filled with fun-filled festive activities.

We have been busy making festive decorations to display around our home and making our Christmas cakes, starting them early so we could ‘feed’ them with brandy or sherry and leaving plenty of time for them to mature before decorating and entering into Barchester’s annual Christmas cake competition.

As we made our cakes, it was lovely to hear everyone sharing their memories of Christmases past, the traditions they enjoyed and what Christmas has meant to them.

The judging of the Christmas cakes will take place on 11th December and we can’t wait to sample the finished cake! Good luck to everyone and may the best cake win!

Residents and staff at Westvale Care home in Warrington were helping to make the world a better place by wearing a festival jumper on Friday 13th December in aid of Save the Children’s annual fundraising event, Christmas Jumper Day.

All residents and staff at the home were encouraged to buy, borrow or decorate their own special Christmas jumpers and donate to Save the Children and had fun in doing so!

Some of the residents have been very creative and decorated their own glitzy knitwear with tinsel, stars, baubles and snowflakes. Everyone had a wonderful time!

Residents, relatives and staff at Westvale have been spreading a little festive cheer to those in need and have been creating ‘treat’ hampers which have been delivered into the community, those benefiting have included the Shannon Bradshaw Truest and Roy Humphreys Trust in Longford.

The home would like to thank everyone for their generous donations and hope those receiving will benefit.  Seasonal greetings to all from Westvale.

Santa said, “it is all about putting a smile on their faces, and we decided not to let Coved beat us, so we continue to drive around the Warrington area”. We will also be making a stop at Warrington hospital on Christmas day, as we do every year.”

Santa (Adrian Derbyshire), who set up the Adrian Derbyshire Foundation, to raise money for the Julia Derbyshire Campaign for mental health awareness will continue to visit the Warrington Area.