Activities at Lancaster Grange Care Home
Activities are the cornerstone of a wholesome home experience and our Activities Coordinators are always putting their creative minds to the test by organising new and exciting social events for residents to partake in. Of course, we take into account the likes and dislikes of those we support, so if someone doesn’t feel like trying something new, there will always be something on offer to reflect their personal interests. For the people who may just prefer some peace and quiet instead, we also offer one-to-one time that can be enjoyed with a nice cup of coffee or just a simple chat – whatever they desire.
Charlotte Thompson
We would like to introduce to you our Senior Activities Coordinator, Charlotte Thompson. Charlotte has worked at Barchester since 2015 and prides herself on delivering a person centred approach, valuing equality, diversity & offering tailored activities. Charlotte joined the team at Tennyson Wharf in October 2022 before moving back to us here at Lancaster Grange in January 2023.
Charlotte is pleased to be welcoming families and volunteers back into the home. Charlotte is a senior activities coordinator and enjoys supporting other homes in our region as part of her job role.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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 Lancaster Grange Care Home
Valentine's Day
Our residents of Lancaster Grange have thoroughly enjoyed a very special Valentine’s Day.
We happily welcomed Jeremy into our home for a Valentine's live performance in our communal café. What a fantastic morning of love songs, which our residents reminisced and san along to.
It was wonderful to see our loved ones joining us and to see how traditional red roses and cards brought so much joy to our residents around our home.
After a Valentine's Day inspired lunch, we enjoyed home-baked chocolate-dipped shortbread hearts and tasty Viennese biscuits.
A fabulous time for our residents here at Lancaster Grange.
Pancake Day
Our residents of Lancaster Grange celebrated Pancake Day yesterday. We started the morning with a fun pancake tasting session, Patrick happily mixed up the pancakes, we didn’t need to find a recipe for this !
We have learned lots of information provided by our valuable resource Oomph Wellness all about Pancake Day
We were able to discuss the meaning behind and reminiscence about Pancake day with our families.
Our residents reminisced about mixing and making pancakes, and we found that the most traditional and popular filling was lemon & sugar.
Our tasting session in the morning was certainly enjoyable, and then we thoroughly enjoyed pancakes as a dessert at lunch, provided by our Peri Chef Tom.
We did a quiz after lunch and had a great start to the morning here at Lancaster Grange Care home.
David Fox Magician visiting residents at Lancaster Grange
Our Lancaster Grange residents were treated to a wonderful afternoon with David Fox Magic, David has visited our home many times and each time provides a fabulous experience.
David kindly became acquainted with the names of our residents and engaged them in an afternoon of thrilling tricks.
Our Residents were asked to choose cards and take part in magical tricks that resulted in festive fruits and chocolates.
One of the residents expressed gratitude for an interesting and unique experience and asked if he could come back for a summer show. We are excited to host David at our Summer Fayre.
A fun, friendly and memorable activity for our Christmas 2023.
Countryside drives to Maxeys Farm Shop
Our residents, of Lancaster Grange enjoyed a wonderful trip this morning riding through the villages of their local community to stop off at Maxeys Farm Shop & Kitchen. Visiting the farm shop was on one of our residents wish list and were delighted to hear they would be going.. It’s the first time we have visited the new restaurant, since opening and we were intrigued to how the shop and café has changed.
Ann was thrilled with the surroundings and thoroughly enjoyed her Americano Coffee. Dennis also was extremely happy with the outing comparing the coffee to his home roast. The farm shop was fantastic, enabling our residents to indulge in some local produce and sample delicious food and drink.
Murder Mystery at Lancaster Grange – The Great British Bunk Off
We held our New Year’s Eve ‘Murder Mystery’ at Lancaster Grange, a production that we showcase every year.
Our Residents and staff members acted out characters and thoroughly enjoy the who’s done it? Experience.
This year’s murder mystery production was held in our coffee shop with residents of all communities joining in and having fun.
‘Murder at the Great British Bake Off’ had characters Miss Victoria Sponge, Mrs Plummy Crumble, the Cherry Twins…Miss Cherry Bakewell and Miss Cherry Pie. Other residents of Lancaster Grange played parts of a American Mac O’Roon, Countess Battenberg, Miss Pav Lova and many more. Charlotte played Miss Sherry Triffle, Cherilyn acted out Miss Do Nut and was the shows presenter and Carer Wayne was a good sport, and played Ms Butterfly Cup-Cake. Residents had a fantastic time trying to guess who had murdered Chris Pee, a wonderful social and fun engaging morning held for our residents of Lancaster Grange.
Women’s Institute visiting Lancaster Grange
Our residents, staff and guests all joined together for a festive celebration ‘Christmas Jumper Day’ here at Lancaster Grange.
We recognised Christmas Jumper Day to support the charity Save the Children, who help children facing serious issues like war, hunger and poverty. This afternoon we we’re delighted to warmly welcome back the Alison Wilson Newark & District u3a ‘Singing for Fun’ Choir.
Residents joined in, singing traditional Christmas songs and carols. Everyone enjoyed hot chocolate and homemade biscuits afterwards.
Everyone joined in for Christmas jumper day including our residents and visiting families, a real fun day here.
