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.
Marius Sidoriuc
Hi, my name is Marius, I am the activities coordinator here at Harton Grange. I joined Barchester's family in 2021, as I found their approach and standards on dementia very interesting. Since early 2022 I work for Barchester as both activities coordinator and care assistant. In 2018, I started my journey in health and social care as a care assistant and very soon after, I completed courses on dementia and activities (NAPA, level 2) and I worked as both activities coordinator and care assistant in Kent. I'm also an apprentice in health and social care. I've met some amazing people that have guided my understanding of dementia.
The most important thing for me is to see our residents achieving a meaningful raison d'etre, living as they like and to benefit from a range of activities starting from Namaste to reminiscing and spiritual needs (such as praying or listening to hymns), art and craft, armchair exercises, music therapy or finger nail pamper sessions.
I like to acknowledge that I am working as a part of a whole team, including the fantastic management, hospitality and maintenance departments, promoting a person centred approach for each resident and we are glad to know each persons preferences and abilities in order to plan how the day will look with them. One way we are able to do this is through our residents' and family' meetings where we try to let everyone have their say about the way they want to live and the activities they take part in.
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 Harton Grange Care Home
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.
Sing a long with Nicky and Lucy
Everyone really enjoyed our afternoon with Nicky and Lucy for a wonderful, cosy and entertaining afternoon sing-along. Even a few residents from another Barchester home, Bedewell, attended this session of sing-along.
Live entertainment from Alex Hall
It was a fabulous afternoon with a special guest: Alex Hall. We enjoyed a range of songs, from present day to the most iconic ones. Everyone sang with Alex, some of us even danced. With this festive afternoon we are a step closer Christmas.
Making Ceramic Brooches
Thanks to Jos Forester-Melville, HenPower Project manager, we had a fantastic art and craft session: we made ceramic brooches with hens on. Even Dennis enjoyed the session and helped to make some shapes from clay. There was an incredible atmosphere with plenty of music and laughs as well. Meg, the ceramist, appreciated the help offered by our guests, Jos, Susan Ratliff, Glenda Cooke, and Phil Hodgson.
Celebrating Autumn
It was a cold autumn morning with frost, but we enjoyed a warm atmosphere with plenty of mulled wine, cider, apple crumble cakes, carrot cakes, cherries crumble cakes, muffins, lemon tart, flapjack and even some poppy seeds crumble cakes ...
I was asked if we celebrate something special today: Yes, The spirit of autumn days...
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