Activities at Westwood House Care Home
As Activity Coordinator at Westwood House I am fully committed to organising activities for all of the residents. This includes activities within the home such as reminiscence sessions, and planning events such as the Summer and Christmas parties. We have also provided some very successful trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and have monthly visits from entertainers and musicians. We are always encouraging local schools to get involved and have recently managed to get a local charity 'Spare tyre' working with us very successfully.
It is important to me that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
Liz Wickers
My name is Liz and I am the lifestyle coordinator at Westwood House. I have always lived and worked in Southwark and Lambeth boroughs. I spent 25 years within the education sector before deciding to try new roles. As well as teaching I have also had the privilege of being a personal carer in Dementia. I am so happy that I have been welcomed into the Westwood House family where I can continue to grow and develop.
I aim to offer a range of varied and tailored activities and group sessions that are meaningful to each of them. I am thrilled to be supporting the team in delivering fun, engaging and interesting activities for our residents.
I look forward to meeting you all!
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 Westwood House Care Home
Music and Movement
At Westwood House we absolutely love music and movement. We turn on the tunes and dance away. Our friends and families are always on board to join in and we have a wonderful morning. Our sessions are a great way to keep fit whilst having fun.
Westwood House Summer Party!
We had an amazing and fabulous fun filled party at Westwood House, the sun shone and stayed with us throughout the day. We enjoyed delicious food, cocktails and music but above all else we enjoyed each other’s company. The children’s laughter as they played the games was truly delightful (hook a duck being the favourite) It was a pleasure to welcome PC Lumley and PC Homshaw, our local neighbourhood officers. One of our residents insisted on being handcuffed and of course they were happy to oblige (one hand only)
A great big thank you to everyone that joined us and for your continued to support.
Oh, Yes Sir! We can boogie!
Great to have Peter back at Westwood House, entertaining us with his fabulous singing. So many tunes remembered and so many shapes thrown.
Oh we boogied hard this afternoon and what fun we had (somewhat exhausted now)
We even mastered the art of wheelchair dancing, a few twists and turns and we got it down to a fine art.
The Spirit of the Dance comes to Westwood House!
Beckie came to perform for us today. She is an Irish dancer, and has performed around the world in ‘The Spirit of the Dance’
We had a wonderful time watching her and listening to the tapping of her shoes. Beckie also shared photos of her time travelling and told us some wonderful stories of her time in the show.
We shook our pompoms and waved our flags and enjoyed every minute of it.
When our wonderful friends pop in for a cuppa and cake!
Here at Westwood House we always have a warm welcome waiting for you all.
We were so happy to have ‘The Cake Appreciation Society’ come visit us. A wonderful afternoon spent in great company.
Trip to Brighton
Whilst the sun makes hay, we will play and just what we did at the beach today, we took a trip to beautiful Brighton.
A wonderful stroll along the prom followed by fish, chips and mushy peas. Obviously we had to treat ourselves further to ice cream and candy floss.
We all had such a fantastic day and can’t wait to return.
