Activities at Harton 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.
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 Harton Grange Care Home
All Saints Day
On 1st November we have celebrated All Saints Day (All Hallows' Day), Rev Deborah from Methodist West Harton Church visited us for Holy Mass. We enjoyed praying together, listening to the hymns, having the Eucharist (Holy Communion) and learning more about the Saints.
A trip to Asda
We spent a wonderful morning doing shopping in Asda Boldon. Audrey and Dotty have enjoyed today to buy sweets. Audrey wanted even to offer some chocolates to our wonderful carers and we bought plenty of cakes for them as well.
Tails 'n Snails
We had such a beautiful surprise today! Georgia from Tails 'N Snails visited us, transforming our morning into a very bright one despite the rainy weather. We were delighted to see Gizmo - a baby hedgehog, a 28-year old tortoise, Lola, a wonderful rabbit, a python snake, a gecko, and a Blue tongue Skink (lizard).
Thomasina, Moira, Margaret, Doris just loved to see and to cuddle the rabbit. Norma and Moira even enjoyed to touch the snake. Everyone had time to touch and even to talk to these beautiful animals.
Georgia was very knowledgeable and our residents appreciated very much. We are looking forward to seeing Georgia and her little friends on next month.
Halloween Celebrations
It was Halloween, so it was a spooktacular show! This year we had Christine as special guest. We had a special treat as well, it wasn't a trick as our chefs prepared lots of tasty Halloween recipes.
Creating with Clay
We had a busy (and creative) afternoon making and painting clay shapes, representing different birds or flowers. Thank you to Jos from Equal Arts for helping us to have this session with the ceramist Meg.
A visit from Harton Harmonisers Choir
What a wonderful afternoon! We have had Harton Harmonisers Choir in to visit and they brought a lot of joy in our home. We just loved to hear and see them. Harton Harmonisers is an acappela singing group based in South Shields and they sing unaccompanied (acappela) songs.
Upcoming events
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Your time could make a real difference. For more information on Volunteering please contact 0161 454 6000.
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Come and take a break with us! We offer a warm welcome, refreshing drink and there may be a cake or two available too.....
