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Care Home Open Week 2025

Every year thousands of care homes open their doors to their local community as part of Care Home Open Week. This enables them to show how care home residents live and the kind of activities they do every day.

A huge amount of people have never even stepped inside a care home. Yet suddenly when their family member falls ill, they are faced with the daunting prospect of helping them choose a care home.

Care Home Open Week 2025 runs from 16-22 June.

See the facilities and kind of care on offer

The move to a care home often needs to be done extremely quickly. Getting a look inside how a care home works and how residents live can really help. It can mean people choosing the care home will know the right questions to ask and what things to look for when selecting a home.

This year will see care homes hosting a whole range of events. The theme for this year is ‘Power of Music’. Care homes will be able to run a Big Music Quiz with downloadable resources which include picture rounds, music clips and musical bingo.

Great British Care Cycle Relay

Care Home Open Week will be supported again by Championing Social Care’s Great British Care Cycle Relay. The Relay will take place a week ahead of Care Home Open Week, during 12-16 June. The Relay will cover around 500km in total. It will encompass five individual day-long cycle relays around different regions in the UK -Edinburgh, Wales, York, East Midlands and London. Each day route will cover a distance of 100kms.

Celebration of care homes 

Mitesh Dhanak, board member of Championing Social Care and chair of the Care Home Open Week committee said: “Care Home Open Week is a fantastic opportunity to reposition the care sector in the public’s mind. The negative news agenda contrasts with the fantastic work being delivered by the care sector on a daily basis.

“It is an opportunity to invite local communities in to experience what warm, friendly and inviting spaces care homes are, and see for themselves the high standard of care our inspiring workforce deliver.”

Care homes can register to take part on the Championing Social Care website.