Activities at Cheshire Grange Care Home
The activities team are constantly striving to meet the varied needs of everyone who lives in our home, offering a wide range of group and individual social events. There are regular visits from entertainers, along with craft activities, baking, games & puzzle days and pampering sessions, which fill the week. However, we can always find time for outings and just spending that little bit of special time with residents who enjoy the peace and quiet. We aim to bring the activities to the individual, whilst making it a whole home experience.
Jo Eland
After originally starting at Cheshire Grange in May 2015, I'm delighted to be back in the role of Activities Coordinator. It is a privilege to be in this role and spend time, getting to know our ladies and gentleman and their loved one, whilst doing all the fun things that can make such a difference to their days.
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 Cheshire Grange Care Home
Easter Celebrations
The Cheshire Grange Family had a very busy Easter. In the run-up to the weekend, residents took part in various creative projects decorating Easter Bonnets to wear on Easter Sunday and also Easter Broaches. Broach making has become a very popular creative activity. As with all our creative projects, there was music, poems and lots of smiles and laughter.
The home was decorated and the Easter Bunny popped in on Good Friday to make sure everyone was ready for Sunday.
There were competitions and raffles. Guessing the weight of the cake was very popular. The nearest correct weight won the delicious Blueberry & Lemon cake that Karen our Administrator had baked for us. On Easter Sunday, St Marys Church visited to conduct an Easter Communion Service. The Hospitality team created an amazing roast lamb dinner and the day was rounded off with a visit from the Easter Bunny, bringing lots of smiles and joy.
Music therapy, fun and games!
Cheshire Grange residents welcomed a first visit from Mark from The Music Memory Cafe. Mark brought with him, music, fun & games and hats, the most amazing fun collection of hats.
The residents sang, danced, played balloon tennis and football and smiled and laughed through the morning and everybody is looking forward to Mark's next visit.
Ladies who Lunch!
We were all very excited by the arrival of our new mini-bus and couldn’t wait for all the adventures we could have, but the weather had other ideas, and nobody was that keen to venture out in the cold wind.
We waited patiently and made our first trip out. When the weather improved, we made the short journey to Irlam Station for lunch. The Station at Irlam is a working station on the Liverpool/Manchester line that has an amazing café. The old station buildings have been converted, keeping the character and charm of the building and many original features from the station over the years.
The Station at Irlam is a favourite with our residents and on this trip they enjoyed soup and sandwiches whilst reminiscing about the area and their memories of train journeys.
Music Speaks Louder than Words!
We have many entertainers who visit Cheshire Grange, each bringing something different to enrich our residents' days. Sometimes we can raise the roof with a party atmosphere, others a good old-fashioned sing-along and everything in between.
Then there's the very special moments when the music reaches the residents all with very different needs in a way that makes the room feel as if it’s filled with magic, an ethereal feel.
Tina Wells Sax is a regular and residents love Tina’s upbeat tunes that see the activities team 'dance' and add to the entertainment. It really is a lot of fun.
Tina’s last visit, though, was one of those special moments. The residents felt the music, the music enveloped the residents, brought peace to the room ...... a very special afternoon for all.
A Fantastic Afternoon - Pancake Day!
Our ladies worked up an appetite with several quizzes based around Lent traditions before tucking into some delicious pancakes, all opting for the traditional sugar and lemon filling.
Daffodils!
THEN MY HEART WITH PLEASURE FILLS & DANCES WITH THE DAFFODILS.
We are very fortunate to have beautiful gardens for our residents to enjoy, and everyone welcomes the warmth of spring, being able to get out and enjoy the pleasures of the garden.
We might not have the swaths of 10,000 daffodils that inspired William Wordsworth in the Lake District, but our Cheshire Grange daffodils certainly filled our ladies' hearts with joy on a pleasant warm spring afternoon.
