Activities at Cumberland Grange Care Home
We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.
Gosia Maliga
I have been in the care sector since 2008, and I also have a degree in teaching. I am here to arrange and run a varied range of activities for our residents to take part in, keep them entertained and enrich their lives. From flower arranging, quizzes, arts and crafts to movies in the cinema, I try to make sure there is something for everyone here to take part in, and tailor events to suit each resident.
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 Cumberland Grange Care Home
We love our mini bus outings!
Today some of our residents took a trip to one of our favourite garden centres Bernaville Nurseries so that we could pick a special tree in honour of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Thank you so much to the staff for being so helpful and assisting us with this. Pictures of our beautiful tree in our garden to follow.
We also couldn’t leave without having a cup of tea and a sweet treat.
Age UK Queen's Platinum Jubilee Party
Supporting our local and wonderful Age UK Exeter with a donation of Jubilee themed cupcakes for their Jubilee event held today.
Some of our residents joined the event and they thoroughly enjoyed the music, cakes and company. It was a wonderful afternoon had by all.
CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW
The Chelsea Flower Show is the greatest flower show and it is held every year for 5 days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society.
Our residents wanted to get involved by putting together some beautiful bunches of flowers which we could dot all around our home to bring lots of lovely colour and gorgeous smells.
They look wonderful.
A TASTE OF GREECE
This week our residents tucked into some delicious Greek nibbles and tried some beautiful Greek wines.
We play music, we chat, we eat and we drink - but most of all, we laugh! Cumberland Grange is such a happy home and thanks to our wonderful Activities Coordinator Gosia, we always have something fun to do.
Our residents are the centre of everything we do! They say, we do 💚
INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY
Today we had a wonderful visit from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum who led a fantastic talk on the subject ‘Spring’.
To start off the afternoon our residents were each given a book on birds which was paired with a sound track, recorded by someone who was lucky enough to work with Sir David Attenborough. We then looked at lots of different bird eggs which was totally fascinating.
The session was finished off with some incredible artefacts and their history.
With huge thanks to RAMM for such a great afternoon. Our residents thoroughly enjoyed it.
Austrian Cheese & Wine Night
This week we celebrated a taste of Austria with Austrian beers, wines and nibbles!
Gosia our Activities Co-Ordinator pulled out all the stops this week and was our very own Austrian bar maid.
Our cheese and wine nights are loved by all. We eat, we drink, we laugh, we sing and we dance!
