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.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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
Happy birthday to us
The Cheshire Grange Family were in party mood once again as they celebrated 10 years of the homes opening. Family and friends were invited to join residents for an afternoon of entertainment form Lostock Ukes and enjoy the celebratory buffet on offer. A visit from the ice cream van was a highlight for many residents, enjoying a 99 cone and reminiscing about childhood days. The afternoon was finished off with a giant cake, which everyone still managed to find room for! Here’s to the next 10 years.
Plate presentation
The children at The Cheshire Day Nursery, Guardian St were delighted to receive a visit from Deputy Manager Lizzie, especially the winner of our Jubilee Plate Competition, who was being presented with their prize, a ceramic version of her plate, the nursery also received a Hobbycraft voucher. The residents really enjoyed judging the plates and were amazed by the children’s talent.
Keyboard talent
Margaret enjoyed being given the portable keyboard to explore…. She entertained staff with a rendition of Silent Night, in German, the tune might not have been totally correct, Margaret was delighted to be the mornings entertainment!
Musical mystery tour
Our homes had a brilliant time with curator Sarah Deters as she took us on a virtual ‘Music Through the Ages’ tour of St Cecilia’s Hall: Concert Room and Music Museum.
Our residents were thrilled to discover weird and wonderful musical instruments, hear their unusual sounds, and find out how instruments have changed over the last 500 years.
The virtual live event explored the world-renown collection of musical instruments on display at St Cecilia’s Hall, Scotland’s oldest concert hall.
Ice Cream Deliveries
As temperatures soared on the hottest day of the year what better way to cool down than a tasty ice cream, served to you by an authentic ice cream vendor, well nearly authentic!! Activities Coordinator Jo, donned a striped Jacket and boater hat and loaded the trolley with refreshing drinks, ice lollies, ices cream cones, sauce and sprinkles and went through the home, to residents in their rooms and in communal areas offering the cooling treats. There was many a smile and lots of reminiscing about ice creams along the way, some residents were introduce to ice cream sodas and thoroughly enjoyed them.
Musical Treat from Lymm High School
Cheshire Grange were welcomed some very talented young musicians from Lymm High School , who were playing at the 3 care homes in Lymm as part of their Founders Day Celebrations. Residents on all communities were able to enjoy the performance including some well know classical pieces and some more modern numbers, everyone was commenting on how professional these young people were and how kind they were to take the time to visit, spirits were on a high all day afterwards, we look forward to listening again nearer to Christmas.
