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
Barchester Care Awards 2023 - Divisional Winner!
We're so happy to announce that Grace Santos has been crowned Registered Nurse of the Year for the Central Division in the Barchester Care Awards 2023 and is through to the national round of judging.
The Barchester Care Awards celebrate the staff who go the extra mile for the benefit of the 13,000 residents living in Barchester’s 252 care homes and private hospitals across the country. Categories range from ‘Registered Nurse of the Year’ and ‘Carer of the Year’ to ‘Dementia Care Champion’ and ‘Activities Coordinator of the Year’.
Elvis performs in our garden
Alice Grange welcomed back Elvis tribute Andy Ottley.
Our residents really enjoy inviting their family and friends to join us when we have visiting entertainers to the home.
All residents joined in dancing and singing along to the hits of the king of rock and roll.
Making wishes come true
Making wishes come true is one part of the work that we do at Alice Grange that we really love the joy it brings to our residents and their families.
For our resident Caroline, her love of the music in particular The Jam and Paul Weller gave our lead activities coordinator Penny an idea as she has a connection to Paul Weller.
With this in mind Penny contacted her friend Nicky (Paul's sister) who arranged for Paul to send a personalised message and autographed a program from the recent This is a Modern World exhibition held recently in Brighton.
We think that smile says it all.
Midsummer Day
Its midsummers Day or as some people know it, the Summer Solstice. Either way it is the longest day of the year.
Our residents at Alice Grange welcomed local pianist Nick Raison for an afternoon of singalong and fun to the tunes of times gone by. I lovely long day was had by all in the sunshine.
Mini Concert for Charity
A Big Thank You!
We are pleased to announce that following our mini concert and barbecue in our gardens on Saturday 17th June where we raised £217.43 that we will be donating to The Treehouse East Anglian Children’s. Hospice to help support the wonderful work that they do in the local area.
We would like to thank Aldi Martlesham Health Aldi UK - Tesco Kesgrave Tesco - The Oyster Inn The Oyster Inn Butley - The Farmhouse Hungry Horse as well as our wonderful Alice Grange team, families and friends without whom none of this would be possible!
Sing-Along with Sally
It was another beautiful and sunny afternoon, we were treated to a lovely sing-a-long with Sally. Residents were singing,dancing,and foot tapping.
We find that music brings back so many memories of special events,people,and places from the past.
