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
Fun In The Sun
Our residents have made the most of our wonderful garden whilst the sun is still shining. Using their exercise machines, Facetiming family and relaxing with coffee and cake - all the more enjoyable in the sunshine. We are very fortunate to have such fantastic garden facilities here at Alice Grange.
Interactive Table
Our residents at Alice Grange were really looking forward to trialing the interactive table. On the day, many residents enjoyed playing games and puzzles and there is so much more to this wonderful device.
After such a positive reaction the residents determined that they would like one purchased for the home. As such we should be taking delivery of one of these fantastic tables soon.
Garden Visits
Our garden visits are really popular reuniting residents with their families. There were lots of air hugs and blowing of kisses. Here we have one of our residents who recently celebrated her 90th birthday.
Scrabble Club
Scrabble is a really good activity for our residents' intellectual and social needs. Although we now have Scrabble on our larger than life board in smaller groups due to social distancing, its always fun for our residents to join in.
Knit & Natter
We have been busy with our Knit and Natter group. Our ongoing project is to make flowers and butterflies. Here is one of our residents concentrating on trying to crotchet a butterfly.
This is a really good social activity, which we have now been able to resume with all social distancing in place. Our ladies really look forward to this weekly activity.
We'll Meet Again
We made a mood board and played Vera Lynn's lovely songs throughout the day whilst reading quotes from her book, 'Keep Smiling Through - My Wartime Story'. Watching the funeral and the spitfire flypast on TV was very emotional for all.
