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.

Enriching life
Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Penny Allen

Lead Activities Coordinator

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.

Life-encriching activities booklet Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.

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

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Woodbridge Pumpkin Patch

We headed out to Woodbridge Pumpkin Patch and what fun we had choosing pumpkins and enjoying hot drinks in the fresh air.The residents that we took enjoyed watching the youngsters having fun running around with their wheelbarrows gathering their pumpkins before celebrating Halloween tomorrow.
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Its never too late for a Personal Trainer

This week we had an extra intense chair-based exercise class with personal trainer Darren Barnes. The movement of these gentle exercises increases blood flow, keeps joints active and lubricated, strengthens muscles, and helps reduce falls.

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When is early too early?

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! We headed out to Dobbie's Garden Centre. The Christmas decorations and displays were starting to fill the shelves and we did a spot of Christmas shopping before enjoying elevenses.

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Harvest Festival 2024

This week we marked Harvest Festival by inviting Reverend Chris Nunn from All Saints Church into our home to host a special service for residents, family and friends of the community. Our display was full of Autumnal colours with home grown produce from our own garden, along with staff donations and a very kind donation from Capel St Andrews Farm

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Local School Visit

We were delighted to be invited to Martlesham Primary Academy School for their Hero Day.Our residents joined in with a very competitive game of Bingo and then some year 3 pupils read to our residents.The friendship between the school and Alice Grange is so special with us joining together for many events and even forming our own choir. "From One Generation To Another" With future practise sessions in place before we sing in the community.
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Thorpeness Suffolk

Thorniness Meare was inspired by Peter Pan there are Islands and a 70ft fairy tale cottage on stilts, and mock Tudor homes. We took a drive around taking in the beauty and stopping off for an Ice cream by the Meare and talking of the history that Thorpeness holds.