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.
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.
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
Craft Fair
We were lucky with what seemed to be one of the last days of sun, residents and visitors enjoyed the variety of stalls and the games on offer. Everyone enjoyed live music from Gwynn who sang a mix of songs getting everyone to join in.
Disco fever
Staff relatives of our residents and residents got dressed up in costumes from the 1940 1950 and 1960’s there was a prize for best costume of Male, Female and resident entries. We danced along to tunes from all of those years giving us a blast from the past there was lots of fun and laughter was had by all that joined us.
Out and about Needham Lakes
We took a lovely drive through country lanes to Needham Lakes where we enjoyed feeding the ducks, swans, and other wildlife. On our return journey, we held a mini quiz naming the different types of ducks that we saw.
A Day At The Farm
We took a lovely drive out into the country to visit Easton Park Farm where our residents enjoyed feeding the animals enjoying a picnic and watching children having so much fun. There was so much to see looking at a Victorian Dairy and Blacksmith was all part of our day out and was enjoyed by all.
Marjorie said "This took me back to when I had my goats I have thoroughly enjoyed the day"
Margaret said "The day was so much fun with so much going on"
Jeffery said " I have had a wonderful day"
John said "The day was lovely I have thoroughly enjoyed myself"
Dagmar " Lovely day I love seeing the children enjoying themselves"
Care Awards Making Us Proud
Divisional winners of Barchester Care Awards Luminata Marasolu nominated Carer of the Year and Mike and Julie Shields nominated Volunteer of the Year.
Making us all proud at Alice Grange.
We look forward to the rest of the team and our residents being able to watch the finals in October where we will be fixed to our screen and ready to party.
Out and about Ipswich Transport Museum
Visiting Ipswich Transport Museum was so interesting for our residents who looked back at many vehicles of all shapes and sizes from bikes to trolley buses and anything in between. Bringing back so many memories of travel in so many ways.
