Activities at Wykeham House Care Home

Our residents joined the Pot Gang online community in January with the aim of growing their own fruits and vegetables. 

This month, they nurtured their thriving plants and planted up Cucamelons, red peppers and basil to join the veg patch friends.  

With the recent refurbishment at our local Weatherspoon's residents wanted to take a look at what was to offer so we decided on a pub lunch. Residents enjoyed getting out of the home and going across the road for the Weatherspoon's classics Curry and Fish and Chips! 

Residents enjoyed celebrating valentines day with their loved ones. We invited husbands, wives and partners to join their loves for an afternoon tea to celebrate the years together. Our couples within the home shared afternoon tea together in their rooms and the husbands enjoyed giving a bunch of roses to their wives. 

Residents had a great time making their own pizzas this month. With toppings to choose from, residents rolled out their dough, applied pizza base, cheese and then topped to their taste before enjoying their creations.    

For the final time in 2025, the children from Ivy Cottage Nursery joined our Memory Lane residents for our special Christmas edition of our monthly dementia disco. 

The children and the residents dressed up together and exchanged gifts! We can't wait to welcome them back in 2026.        

Residents in our Memory Lane community were very excited about setting up our new rummage areas. 

Reflecting the interests of our residents, we were able to choose and put together several reminiscent areas, so in memory lane you can easily step into our kitchen, our garden, our beach scene, our travel scene, our BBQ area or even our Boots Beauty area.  

Last summer we took Soren to the FA Cup final to see home team Crystal Palace take the cup. We have continued to support Soren to attend more matches and maintain his season ticket. 

This time we took it to Brighton and Hove Albion for an Away Match.   

Residents started the year off as we mean to go on giving to others. Our lovely memory lane residents helped to make these simple yet beautiful gifts to be given to their friends in the home for their birthday.    

Residents celebrated the RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch in the most wonderful way: bird watching, playing bird-themed games, a bird-themed quiz, bird word games, making bird feeders and, to top it all off, they got creative doing some watercolour paintings of birds that they may see in this big bird watch!    

Wykeham House residents enjoyed the most wonderful visit from our friends at the Spotted Crawley Facebook Community, who arranged for Santa and his elves to pop in and see every resident in the home and bring them some cheer and a festive gift.        

We took advantage of the beautiful early spring sunshine and popped across the road to our local pub the Jack Fairman. Residents indulged in a nice spring drink and a wonderful meal with friends.  

Residents enjoyed a trip somewhere new this month with a visit to Southdowns Heritage centre to check out the art gallery and the old gardening tools... 

Of course all finished off with a cup of tea and some very large slices of cake.

This month our gentlemen enjoyed a trip to the Hangers Cafe at Redhill Aerodrome. 

We watched planes, gliders and helicopters taking off and landing as we enjoyed tea and cake.      

Residents and staff gathered to bring in the Christmas Season in style with a delicious home-cooked buffet and an afternoon of entertainment by the wonderful Michael Lack on Sax.   

Once again, residents enjoyed this local trip to see the fireworks at Horley Recreation Ground. 

Horley Lions always make sure we get the perfect spot so we can park with a lovely hot chocolate and enjoy the wonderful display.