Whitewater PlaceBarchester Healthcare

Activities at Whitewater Place Care Home

Name: Whitewater Place Care Home
Address: Meadow Rise, Odiham, Hook, RG29 1GJ, GB
Telephone: 01256 236 387

Activities will be an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators will bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which will be reflected in the activities they organise.

Read our brochure ‘Life-enriching activities’ for more information about life in our care homes.

Read our brochure

Sophie Smith

Activities Coordinator

Hello! My name is Sophie, and I’m the Activities Co-ordinator at Whitewater Place. I’ve worked in adult social care since I was 18, beginning as a carer, before discovering my passion for creating meaningful lifestyle and wellbeing experiences.

Growing up with a mum who managed care homes inspired my interest in dementia care from an early age, leading me to become a dementia trainer, supporting care teams to help people living with dementia to continue to thrive. I’ve worked across a variety of care settings, and my life enrichment work has been recognised by the University of Worcester and the Surrey Care Awards.

Outside of work, I perform with a local amateur dramatics group and enjoy gardening. Having moved from Staines to Alton in 2025, I’m excited to become part of the local community and look forward to getting to know the people of Odiham and beyond.

Celebrating life at Whitewater Place Care Home

The Start of our Intergenerational Journey

It was lovely to meet with Nathalie from Baby Beats and local mums who joined on her community walk at the beautiful Southwood Country Park. We enjoyed a pleasant walk as the weather has cooled down, and chatted about our children and grandchildren. Lawrence and Philip both enjoyed spending time with the mums, children and babies and Lawrence especially enjoyed cuddles with the twins. We are very excited to start Intergenerational sessions at Whitewater Place in September with Nathalie and the community.

What an Amazing Day!

We had the best time celebrating out official opening after gaining our CQC registration! The local community were amazing in turning out to help us celebrate in style in the glorious sunshine! Big thanks to all those who came, it meant so much to us to hear such positivity about the home and we are so delighted to have welcomed out first residents already! A big cheer also to the incredible team that helped make it all happen. Exciting times ahead for Whitewater Place!

Wimbledon at Whitewater Place

For Wimbledon 2026, we have been enjoying matches shown across our TV's and in our cinema room. We've been having plenty of strawberries & cream and refreshments, with people coming along to enjoy all the action right from Day One of the Championships.

Visitors have also had the opportunity of owning a piece of Wimbledon history, by purchasing a tennis ball used in the 2025 Championships. Could their ball have been served by Alcaraz in the final, or volleyed by Brits, Sonay Kartel, Alfie Hewitt or Cam Norrie?! All proceeds from the event are going directly to the Odiham Tennis Club.

Supporting Local People

At WHitewater Place we like to support people in our local community.

Barry Sears is a fab, local artist. We are currently displaying some of his art in our home for people to see when they visit us. Make sure you take a look when you next pop in!

To find out more about Barry, you can visit his website https://www.barrys.art/

Friday Friends

We recently hosted our first, Friday Friends event in our home and we were delighted to see those who came along.

It was lovely to catch up with tea and cake, have a chat about the home but also have a great natter about day to day life and things we have in common.

We host this event every Friday between 10am and 12pm so feel free to join us!

Mr Whippy??

Residents and staff had a fabulous afternoon fuelled by traditional whippy ice creams from local ice cream man Norman. Thank you Norman for stopping by!

Chef of the Year!

Symoun Genobatin, our amazing Head Chef here at Whitewater Place, has been crowned Chef of the Year for the South West Division in the Barchester Care Awards 2026 and is through to the National Finals!

Almost 6,000 nominations were received from homes and hospitals across the UK. All entries were of a very high standard and Symoun is over the moon to have been named Chef of the Year for the South West after beating dozens of other chef nominees to make it to the Divisional Cook-Offs and then be crowned Divisional Winner! We are so proud of what Symoun has achieved!

The national prize will be awarded in October where we have everything crossed for Symoun!!

Barchester Care Awards

Huge congratulations to our incredible Head Chef, Symoun, who has been nominated for the Barchester Care Awards!

Symoun started his Barchester journey at Ashcombe House where his passion, creativity and talent in the kitchen quickly stood out. He has continued to showcase his skills, leadership and flair in the kitchen as Head Chef at Marnel Lodge and, now, we are so proud to have him bring his expertise to Whitewater Place as our Head Chef.

His next challenge... A regional cook-off to hopefully secure a place in the Division Finals! We'll be cheering him on and are so proud of everything he has achieved. Good luck, Symoun - bring that trophy home!

The Sunflower Café

Our Home Services Advisor Clare was recently invited to The Sunflower Cafe in Odiham. She went along and thoroughly enjoyed the warm and welcoming atmosphere.

The Sunflower Café supports local people who are living with dementia and they do a fantastic job.

We are looking forward to seeing the relationship between the café and Whitewater Place grow, giving us opportunity to reach and help more people living with dementia.

Marketing suite open weekend

Our marketing suite open weekend was a huge success. Thank you to everyone who came along to visit us!

Our doors here at Whitewater Place are officially open for visitors so if you would like to join us for an event or come and have a tour of the home then please do call us!

National Prosecco Day!

A wonderful evening was had in the Castle View Cafe at Whitewater Place as we celebrated National Prosecco Day with a bar service and cheese buffet! A few games of scrabble and lots of laughter made for a great time for both residents and staff.

Odiham and North Warnborough Bowls Club Open Fours

We were so pleased to support the Odiham & North Warnborough Bowls Club at their annual Open Fours tournament, supplying plenty of cake for the visiting teams! It was a great day of competition in the sunshine and it is fantastic to be building such a great relationship with a local club.

Neighbours Cheese and Wine EVent

We had a great cheese and wine evening here at Whitewater Place this week.

It was a chance for us to thank our neighbours for their patience during the build of our home. Thank you to those who made it and if you didn’t, you are still welcome to come and say hello!

Businesses that Brunch

This week we hosted such a fabulous Business Brunch at Whitewater Place, It was great to see so many faces and bring local businesses together.

Thank you to those who came:

Barry Sears - Barry the Artist

Merit Mortgages - Independent Mortgage Broker

Kinder Shores Hypnotherapy

Alexander & Dry Funeral Directors

Aether Telecoms

Lisa Sinfield - Action Coach

Lisa Smith - Lifewave Patches

Sarah Sears - The Sarah Effect

Our FREE networking event is the First Thursday of each month so please come and join us for the next event.

Feel Good Friday

It was sunshine and blue skies here at Whitewater Place today!

Our beautiful new home is looking glorious in this weather and we can’t wait to share it with you soon.

The Start of our Intergenerational Journey