Activities at Alice Grange Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
Activities are 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 bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Penny Allen
Hi, my name is Penny and I am the Lead Activities Coordinator here at Alice Grange.
I have many years of experience working in care homes in Activities, leisure and lifestyle roles.
I love being part of the Alice Grange team and supporting our residents to live their best lives with fun, interesting, and varied activities available every week. I always feel that the residents' input into our weekly planner is important as it gives all residents equal opportunity to explore new interests as well as keeping up with previous passions and hobbies.
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 Alice Grange Care Home
Gifting to the Treehouse Children's Hospice!
We held an Easter Trail over the Easter period and for those children that could not join us and for their siblings, we gifted The Treehouse children's hospice in Ipswich a hamper of Easter eggs for them to share and enjoy. East Anglia's Children's Hospices - EACH.
Margaret, our resident Ambassador, and David, our Deputy resident Ambassador, both handed over the Easter Eggs and a card.
71 years of marriage!
We celebrated our lovely couple, Audrey and Gordon's 71st wedding anniversary.
The event was made even more special as their best man was able to join in with the celebrations, and they enjoyed lunch together opening their cards with a very special one from the King and Queen.
Gordon was overcome with emotion, so much so that he was speechless. Audrey thanked us for making their day so special.
Easter Celebrations!
Easter Fun with an Easter Trail for the children and lots of fun over the weekend with so much fun and laughter. There was face painting, live entertainment and everyone enjoying themselves.
Even the Easter Bunny had time to pop by even with his busy schedule.
Community Group Participate
Britten Pears Young Artist Programme holds weekly Participate sessions a group that explores music with their friendly workshop leaders and musicians.
These sessions bring people together in a relaxed and fun atmosphere with music and heritage workshops for adults in Suffolk and join others in our local community to provide an opportunity to take part in activities and connect over tea and cake.
Chinese New Year!
Lucky red cards were exchanged and revealed a fortune. Our residents had fun with these as well as traditional fortune cookies. The home was decorated with hanging red lanterns.
Residents learnt all about the traditions and superstitions of Chinese New Year. Head chef Titus cooked up an oriental feast for lunch and residents enjoyed the delicious food washed down with a tipple or two while taking on a chopstick challenge.
Tenpin Bowling
Our residents had a fun day out Tenpin bowling. The games became very competitive and fun was had by all.
It was a close match with Jackie being our winner.
