Activities at Lancaster Grange Care Home
Activities are the cornerstone of a wholesome home experience and our Activities Coordinators are always putting their creative minds to the test by organising new and exciting social events for residents to partake in. Of course, we take into account the likes and dislikes of those we support, so if someone doesn’t feel like trying something new, there will always be something on offer to reflect their personal interests. For the people who may just prefer some peace and quiet instead, we also offer one-to-one time that can be enjoyed with a nice cup of coffee or just a simple chat – whatever they desire.
Charlotte Thompson
We would like to introduce to you our Senior Activities Coordinator, Charlotte Thompson. Charlotte has worked at Barchester since 2015 and prides herself on delivering a person centred approach, valuing equality, diversity & offering tailored activities. Charlotte joined the team at Tennyson Wharf in October 2022 before moving back to us here at Lancaster Grange in January 2023.
Charlotte is pleased to be welcoming families and volunteers back into the home. Charlotte is a senior activities coordinator and enjoys supporting other homes in our region as part of her job role.
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 Lancaster Grange Care Home
Christmas Nativity in Claypole Church
Yesterday afternoon, our residents here at Lancaster Grange had the pleasure of visiting St Peter’s Church in Claypole, to watch the youngest children perform their final rehearsal for their Christmas Nativity performance.
Their performance will be held at St Peter’s Church, where the parents and grandparent will watch the children.
We had a lovely time watching the children perform from Claypole Church of England Primary School, we have had such a lovely year building up our friendships together and we cant wait for 2025.
We love our intergenerational friendship and enjoyed seeing you all, whilst visiting the beautiful church in our local community village of Claypole.
Vanessa stone local artist visiting us and Michelle’s pet therapy
This week at our care home Lancaster Grange, we have joined together in different communities to recognise our shared hobbies and interests.
A wonderful morning spent in our residential community yesterday welcoming Vanessa Stone Artist for a creative morning of paper cutting.
This was an opportunity also for our residents to try something new and learn a new talent.
On our community of Thoresby we welcomed into our home a morning of sensory animal therapy with Michelle's Animal Therapy & Petting Party
A calm and meaningful morning of lap animal therapy, evoking many happy memories for our animal loving residents.
Happy times here at our care home Lancaster Grange, our residents enjoying variety and a choice of life enrichment experiences.
Visiting for the Suthers school for an Intergenerational Christmas concert
Our residents of Lancaster Grange were warmly invited over to the school next door to us for a Christmas concert and coffee morning.
The students and staff of The Suthers School put together a wonderful morning of Intergenerational music and social interaction.
Our residents were wowed with the detailed morning of music and talent that was presented to them.
The welcome and hospitality we all received was wonderful and we felt honoured and proud to be part of the morning.
Over the last year our community intergenerational friendship has greatly benefited many of our residents emotional wellbeing and we wanted to say a huge thank you from us all here at Lancaster Grange.
We look forward to meeting the new students in January.
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Shell crafting with our residents here at Lancaster Grange
We’ve enjoyed a busy week here at Lancaster Grange, celebrating residents birthdays each day this week, from all communities.
We pride ourselves with person centred celebrations, ranging from meaningful room visits, private family birthday get-togethers or resident community sing-a-longs.
Our residents of Sherwood Community got creative at a crafting workshop with Cherilyn, decorating scallop shells that had been donated by Orkney Fish shop.
Our ladies made beautiful little trinket dishes for their Christmas Craft Stall, along with other resident made craft will be on sale, this will be held in December.
Our creative shell crafting was a great experience for our residents and they felt extremely proud of their end results boosting their esteem.
An afternoon all about Quilting with guest speaker Lindy
We started our week here at Lancaster Grange with a interesting talk by Lindy on her ‘Hobby of Quilting’ on our Sherwood Community.
Our residents were in ore of Lindy’s gifted talents and listened to the presentation of design, process, making and hours of sewing, that goes into making these spectacular quilts.
Ann said it had been a “wonderful afternoon”, we would like to thank Lindy and her assistants on the day, Janet and Kira.
Lindy proudly donated a quilt tour residents which the activity’s team will use on individual visits to residents who have the same hobby and interests.
Our residents of Lancaster Grange coming together to recognise World Children’s Day
We had a fabulous day here at Lancaster Grange recognising ‘World Children’s Day’ around out home and on both our Memory Lane and Sherwood Community.
Residents of our Memory Lane Community enjoyed our ‘Dementia Book Club’ reading from the Oomph Wellness ‘A Bit of a Sweet Tooth’. This raised lots of stories and child hood memories.
Residents reminisced about happy childhood memories, visiting the local corner shop with their pocket money to buy sweet treats, making our mouths water.
Jean was able to share with us her years of working at Rowntree’s and Terrys of York, while Michael shared is love of Aniseed balls and Turkish Delight.
We all spoke about our childhood and growing up, some of our residents bought along pictures of themselves as children and we had a great afternoon of family reminisce, boosting our mind, body and souls.
