OutingPlanner for Care Homes
A planning tool that helps UK care home activity coordinators organise accessible day trips — handling minibus logistics, accessibility checks, weather contingencies, and resident consent forms.
Activities coordinators at UK care homes planning weekly outings
- Venue library of pre-vetted accessible destinations (seaside, gardens, museums) with parking, toilets, and wheelchair notes
- Resident roster with consent and mobility status so each outing's transport and risk assessment auto-fills','Weather watch' that flags outdoor trips on forecast bad-weather days and suggests indoor alternatives
- Photo report generator to share with families and CQC inspectors
The trending story celebrates a seaside day out — a classic care home activity — but coordinators juggle these trips weekly with paper-based risk assessments and last-minute weather cancellations.
Care home activity planning is a real, validated need — Relish Wellbeing and Oomph both sell dedicated activity-planning platforms into UK care homes — but demand for a sub-niche 'outing-only' planner layered on top of general activity tools is narrower than the 200+ Trends figure for the broad 'care home' term suggests.Relish Wellbeing | Enhance Care Communication Today ↗Oomph! On-Demand Platform - Person Centred Software ↗
Relish and Oomph cover activity calendars, content libraries and family comms, but no dedicated product combines minibus logistics + accessibility checks + weather contingencies + consent forms; however, incumbents could add this as a module, so the gap is real but not uncontested.Relish Wellbeing ↗Oomph Pricing 2026: Real Costs, Fees & What Others Paid ↗
Relish has published subscription pricing tiers and Person Centred Software/Oomph is sold enterprise-wide to UK care home groups, proving B2B willingness to pay — but the care home sector is famously budget-constrained and the outing-planning slice is small relative to the platform ticket.Pricing | Discover Your Plan Today — Relish Wellbeing ↗Oomph! Wellbeing & Activities Platform ↗
UK's aging population, mandatory CQC-style risk assessment requirements, and the slow digitisation of paper-based processes (note the still-Word/PDF minibus risk assessment templates in circulation) point to multi-year tailwinds for a digital tool in this space.Minibus Risk Assessment SB BA VR 07 2025 - Richmond House Social Care Services CIC ↗
Buildable as a standard web app: weather API, mapping/Google Places for accessibility, e-signature for consent forms, and simple route/manifest tools are all off-the-shelf; main lift is curating accessibility data per UK venue, which is moderate.About | Oomph! Wellbeing and Activities ↗