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
Interactive Table Fun
Our interactive table is used all over the home for a variety of entertainment and communication purposes.
From playing word games, to video calling loved ones, to streaming music concerts, our interactive table can be used by every resident. As it is transportable it can be taken into bedrooms for those wanting a private chat with family or it can be used to play a film that can be enjoyed by all in one of our lounges.
In the near future we are also going to be getting a Magic Table which is an interactive light projector which has a range of features and games to promote social interaction, dexterity and communication.
Games And Competitions
A relaxing afternoon of games, tea and cake in one our comfortable lounges quickly turned into a competitive tournament complete with friendly banter and careful score keeping.
Enjoyed by all especially the winners!
Vaccination Day At Alice Grange
Staff and residents received Covid vaccinations at Alice Grange yesterday.
General Manager, Andrea was overjoyed and said "This will make us so much safer after such a difficult year. This is the light at the end of the tunnel. The team has risen amazingly to the challenges of this year and I am so proud that we are taking this next critical step to help protect the most vulnerable."
Every resident received the vaccine with some remaining staff due to be receiving their vaccine on Monday afternoon.
Christmas At Alice Grange
Whilst Christmas was a little different from normal this year everyone at Alice Grange still had a fantastic day. We all enjoyed good company, great food, games, fun and lots of laughter led by our wonderful Activities Team and overseen by the Elf and Safety department.
Honoured By The Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk
The team at Alice Grange were honoured today to have received a Certificate of Merit for their outstanding work during the Covid pandemic.
General Manager, Andrea Crowley was mentioned in the letter from the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk and the Suffolk High Sheriff as providing leadership characterised by creditable selflessness and sense of duty.
This leadership and dedicated teamwork is reflected in the level of care provided at Alice Grange. A rewarding place to live and work.
Amazing Kindness
We received postcard of kindness through the summer and now we have started to receive Christmas cards of kindness as well. It is wonderful that people around the community are thinking of the residents and staff at Alice Grange this Christmas.
One of our residents has also been anonymously nominated to receive a hamper of goodies. We have no way of knowing who organised this, but Dorothy was very touched by the gesture so thank you!
Merry Christmas Everyone.