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.
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 Lancaster Grange Care Home
Comic relief Red Nose Day
We recognised Comic Relief, Red Nose Day here at Lancaster Grange with a ‘Fund Raising Charity Bingo’ held in our coffee shop this morning. Our staff joined in with a ‘fun dressing up or dressing down’ raising money for Comic Relief, alongside our ‘Charity Cake Sale’. We’ve raised a fantastic £85 today, thank you to all who donated cakes and the ladies in the kitchen Sharon & Rachel, a whole home approach.
Nutrition and Hydration week
This week we are recognising Day 2 of Nutrition & Hydration week. From March 12 - March 18
Nutrition and Hydration Week aims to highlight, promote and celebrate improvements in the provision of nutrition and hydration locally, nationally and globally. This morning our residents took a trip into our local community for a spot of essential shopping at our their request visiting Waitrose & Partner on our visit, and to our delight, we were presented with lots of fresh fruits, strawberries, raspberries, and bananas from their community engagement liaison team, to support our nutrition & hydration week.
This afternoon our residents enjoyed sensory fruit tasting, and all took part in food themed games, evoking memories of eating with the family. We finished the afternoon off with a very nutritious fruit smoothie that met the dietary needs of all our residents in our community of Memory Lane. With the help of our hospitality team, we adapted it to have a higher calorific value where necessary.
Visiting Claypole Primary School
This afternoon, our residents of Lancaster Grange had the pleasure of visiting Claypole Church of England Primary School
We were warmly welcomed with hot drinks and home-baked shortbread, which were proudly served by the children.
What a fabulous afternoon we had. The children who are practicing for a school choir competition that will take place later this week sang to us. This afternoon's performance by the children was fantastic and inspiring, leaving our residents and activities team feeling very proud to be a part of. Thank you again for all that helped this wonderful intergenerational afternoon happen.
After our trip, two of our residents expressed how good it was to be back in school after many years of teaching.
Valentine's Day
Our residents of Lancaster Grange have thoroughly enjoyed a very special Valentine’s Day.
We happily welcomed Jeremy into our home for a Valentine's live performance in our communal café. What a fantastic morning of love songs, which our residents reminisced and san along to.
It was wonderful to see our loved ones joining us and to see how traditional red roses and cards brought so much joy to our residents around our home.
After a Valentine's Day inspired lunch, we enjoyed home-baked chocolate-dipped shortbread hearts and tasty Viennese biscuits.
A fabulous time for our residents here at Lancaster Grange.
Pancake Day
Our residents of Lancaster Grange celebrated Pancake Day yesterday. We started the morning with a fun pancake tasting session, Patrick happily mixed up the pancakes, we didn’t need to find a recipe for this !
We have learned lots of information provided by our valuable resource Oomph Wellness all about Pancake Day
We were able to discuss the meaning behind and reminiscence about Pancake day with our families.
Our residents reminisced about mixing and making pancakes, and we found that the most traditional and popular filling was lemon & sugar.
Our tasting session in the morning was certainly enjoyable, and then we thoroughly enjoyed pancakes as a dessert at lunch, provided by our Peri Chef Tom.
We did a quiz after lunch and had a great start to the morning here at Lancaster Grange Care home.
David Fox Magician visiting residents at Lancaster Grange
Our Lancaster Grange residents were treated to a wonderful afternoon with David Fox Magic, David has visited our home many times and each time provides a fabulous experience.
David kindly became acquainted with the names of our residents and engaged them in an afternoon of thrilling tricks.
Our Residents were asked to choose cards and take part in magical tricks that resulted in festive fruits and chocolates.
One of the residents expressed gratitude for an interesting and unique experience and asked if he could come back for a summer show. We are excited to host David at our Summer Fayre.
A fun, friendly and memorable activity for our Christmas 2023.
