Activities at Alice Grange Care Home
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.
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 Alice Grange Care Home
Simon Brett
We had a great visitor- Simon Brett, the novelist. It’s truly unbelievable but he already published 130 novels! What a treat to get to know such a person. He read for us bits of his work. It turned up that he has great sense of humour too! We truly enjoyed that visit, and having a chat with such a brilliant person. He was so kind, patient and lovely warm to us all.
Strawberry picking
We have visited Friday Street Farm to pick our own strawberries. What a fun that was to pick them up and eat them straight from the plant! We haven’t done it for ages! As a little treat after the hard work, we enjoyed great hot drinks and absolutely brilliant cheesy scones in the local café. We ate all we have picked while reading poetry. Oh gosh, you can get hungry then!
Felixstowe In The Sunshine
We enjoyed a wonderful trip out to Felixstowe this week. The weather was amazing and we made the most of it by walking down the sea front, enjoyed coffee and ice-cream sat in the sunshine, and explored the beautiful town of Felixstowe.
We are planning to get out and about as much as possible during the summer, so keep your eyes open for our minibus and please stop and say hi when you see us!
Jubilee Gardening
To celebrate the Jubilee our residents have been inspired to create different arrangements of flowers; the jars were colourful with a combination of strong and light colours mixed with leaves which were taken from our beautiful garden. Doing the arrangements in floral foam were special, residents shared their gardening experiences, one lady said people don’t need to think how to decorate, it is better just do it and then you can reorganise if you don’t like the decoration already made.
As everybody agreed, lavender is perfect for floral foam, even though it is a light flower, its stem is strong enough to put into floral foam and looks beautiful as a spray around the arrangement (they look like stars). Talking about peonies, we agreed that these flowers look glamorous in any arrangements.
Now to the garden; some residents have spent their time digging the soil, planting flowers and watering regularly. Our fountain planter was planted with blue perennials and begonias by Leonard and Mary. Mary also mixed flowers in an another pot. With Tom’s help, we also planted more flowers in the raised beds.
Jubilee Fun
At Alice Grange we have celebrated the Platinum Jubilee with a Royal Afternoon Tea Party, live music, games, watching the parade and some rousing patriotic singing!
Out And About In Woodbridge
This week we've been out and about in Woodbridge enjoying the beautiful weather and exploring the area. We have visited the Tide Mill museum and several of the lovely cafes that Woodbrige has to offer.
Using our minibus to get out and about is an important part of our activities programme and we always want to explore new locations with our residents.
