Activities at Lancaster Grange Care Home

We extend a warm welcome to our friends from Claypole Church of England Primary School.

The children kindly brought handmade Christmas cards to our community coffee shop where are residents were patiently waiting, they read stories to our residents, and sang Christmas songs together.

Our resident Margaret was delighted when they sang 'Happy Birthday' to her and made her day extra special.

The children then took the time to visit the residents' rooms around our home, singing Christmas carols and sharing Christmas cheer and joy.

The children proudly sang Christmas carols along our corridors, spreading happiness and joy to all.

This had such a powerful impact, especially on our nursing community of Thoresby.

Our intergenerational friendship with Claypole School is truly wonderful, and we are grateful to the children, teachers, and parents for making yesterday afternoon such a joyous and memorable occasion. 

Here, at our home, Lancaster Grange, today, we have incorporated and recognised International Men's Day into our daily life enrichment programme.    

This morning we all enjoyed a fun-filled morning with Simon from Waleys Dart Days.

We had such an engaging, entertaining, social and physical game of darts incorporating and enabling residents with a variety of needs to have fun and enjoy themselves.

We continued our day with a cold yet enjoyable visit to our local pub, The Tawny Owl as always welcoming our residents to enjoy a drink in our local community, building friendships together.

On this day, International Men’s Day, we just wanted to recognise all the wonderful men in our lives: our grandfathers, fathers, husbands, sons, brothers, cousins, friends and neighbours.    

This morning, we had the pleasure of welcoming the RAFA Newark Branch into our home.

https://rafanewark.co.uk/

Our residents were kindly presented with a unique painting of a Lancaster Bomber. Today was a perfect day as we celebrated Patrick’s birthday, a keen aviation enthusiast.

Members of today’s group happily celebrated and enjoyed spending time with our residents socially, getting to know them.

A great morning of community engagement within our care home, Lancaster Grange, building new friendships and connections.  

What a fantastic community outing yesterday afternoon for our residents here at Lancaster Grange, with a pre-arranged visit to Southwell Minster.

We have two trips planned this week and our first was to see the exhibition of The Longest Yarn 2. This is the second year running of visiting the Minster at Southwell. This year’s exhibition is made up of 80 panels of "wool art", each 1m long.

This year the focus is on what it was like in Britain between the declaration of war on 3 September 1939 to VE Day on 8 May 1945. This magnificent exhibition includes significant events such as the King’s Speech, D-Day, The Blitz, the bombing of major cities, Britain coping with the war, the Home Guard, the Women’s Land Army, rationing, and much, much more.

We were wowed with the display and thrilled to be able to share this moment together.  

Residents have enjoyed a variety of Life Enrichment music activities today with Activity Bank Assistant Sharon here at Lancaster Grange.

Clarinetist Linda played for our Sherwood residents in our community café, starting the week off on a high note. Linda has been visiting us for over 7 years, and we are looking forward to her singing for a fun group joining us in October.

Memory Lane residents held their ‘Book Club’ reading and reminisced about ‘The Allure of Rock and Roll’, a dementia-friendly short story along with percussion and instruments.

And this afternoon we welcomed our friends from Fernwood Amateur Dramatic Society for ‘Singing for the Brain’. Residents of all communities came together for a sing-a-long. They visit us fortnightly, and as a way of saying thank you, we have invited them to our pizza and prosecco night in September.

We love music and all of its rewarding benefits!   

Today at our Care Home, Lancaster Grange, we had great fun celebrating National Cupcake Day.

This morning we started off with festive baking. We had a great time making traditional vanilla cupcakes in this morning's baking club, decorating with edible decorations.

Our residents happily came together for their baking experience, sharing tips and stories about baking at home around Christmastime.

This afternoon during our games, we got to sample and enjoy our delicious cupcakes.

We received a lot of joy in sharing our masterpieces with our residents and care team in our upstairs communities.

Spreading the joy of cupcakes!!

We are proud to share Lancaster Grange celebrated National Cupcake Day with great success.   

Here at Lancaster Grange yesterday afternoon, we held our Monthly Veteran’s Coffee afternoon. This week we indulged in a fun game of prize bingo!!

We all had a great afternoon, lots of laughter and social engagement, making new friends with members of the Balderton Rafa Association.

We are looking forward to December's Christmas event and our themed bingo dress-up afternoon in the New Year.

We have made some incredible memories this year with this fantastic group, and we are so proud to share our community link and friendship.

Our residents were thrilled with the prize donations and the opportunity to share the joy of chocolates around our home.

Our residents enjoyed listening to Care Assistants Carrie and Prashant, about their experiences of celebrating Diwali yesterday at our Songs of Praise service.

Recognising the festival of Light, Prashant, a practising Hindu, originally from Nepal, explained how he will be celebrating over the next five days, as from today.

Diwali is India's biggest and most important holiday of the year. The festival gets its name from the row of clay lamps that Indians light outside their homes to symbolise the inner light that protects themselves from spiritual darkness. This festival is as important to Hindus as the Christmas holiday is to Christians.

Care Assistant Carrie, shared her experiences of living in India and seeing the Diwali evening parades. Residents carried on this morning in Creative Crafting, decorating glass jars with tissue paper and embellishments to be lite. 

What a fantastic morning for our residents here at Lancaster Grange on #999Day.

Tuesday 9th September, the UK comes together to mark Emergency Services Day, also known as 999 Day. This is a national day dedicated to recognising and celebrating the extraordinary work of the NHS and emergency services personnel across the country.

We had the pleasure of welcoming Keil and today’s crew from Newark Fire Station. Each time they visit Keil and the crew put our residents at ease about fire safety. Meeting new residents on each visit and remembering others they have met before is a wonderful touch. Today, recognises nurses, police officers and firefighters to search and rescue teams and call handlers. Almost 2 million people work and volunteer in the emergency services and NHS.

Amongst them are 250,000 first responders, those who run towards danger to protect and save lives. We wanted to share and recognise this day and say a huge thank you to every one of us all here at Lancaster Grange. We are so proud of the community link we have with Newark Fire Station and love how they value and inspire our residents each time they visit.

Two of our gentlemen residents were thrilled to be helped into the driving seat of their fire engine this morning, something they never imagined they would do!

What a fantastic morning.  

A wonderful time here for our residents of Lancaster Grange over the last few days.

We have enjoyed community outings, pet therapy and sunshine walks around our beautiful gardens.

A morning coffee and cake at our local YMCA Newark and Sherwood was asked at our recent residents' meeting. A great visit from Michelle's Animal Therapy & Petting Party. Residents were thrilled to welcome back a wonderful afternoon of pet therapy.

#PhysicalTherapy in our gardens with glorious sunshine and social interactions, great social walks in the gardens building friendships and boosting esteem with physical exercise.

Lots of fantastic memories are being made, boosting our minds, bodies and souls daily through our Life Enrichment programme.

Enjoying our summer 2025 with family and friends. 

We proudly hold our own ‘Songs of Praise Service’ every Sunday morning here at Lancaster Grange, for all residents of all our communities to gather together for a spiritual service.

Our Activities team prepare and engage a service with hymns, poems, prayers and discussions, with different diverse topics, to enhance our spiritual wellbeing.

Today Cherilyn held a service recognising ‘National Tree Week’, which is celebrating its 50th year.

The residents discussed how trees appear in the Bible, in many scriptures and the significant meanings behind them.

We discussed our appreciation for trees, why they are so important in the ecosystem and to humans.

Cherilyn brought items from home for a ‘show and tell’; Ebony, Petrified wood, Jasper and Jet. 
And what do they all have in common? They all were once a tree!!    

Our residents here at Lancaster Grange, have been thoroughly enjoying their Life Enrichment Programme with a variety of community outings offered.

Our residents have ventured out into the community this week over to Hardy's Farndon farm shop and café, enjoying shopping for local produce and enjoying coffee & cake.

Today we took a trip over to Waitrose & Partners in Newark to start our Christmas shopping.

We have also had lots going on in our home this week and our residents have joined communities together for their dining experiences each day.

Our resident, Ann, wanted to share the pictures and show their dining experience, expressing it had a wonderful community feeling, all being together.  

At our care home, Lancaster Grange, we  recognised with a huge amount of fun and laughter The International Day of Older Persons.

This day is celebrated globally on October 1st as the United Nations International Day of Older Persons. We joined and made our own community and marked this age-friendly community day with fun laughter and celebrations here at Lancaster Grange.

This year’s UK theme is: Building Belonging: Celebrating the power of our social connections. We threw a fun and creative party here at Lancaster Grange, celebrating in style and embracing our lives together.

A fantastic whole-home approach enabled joining of communities and a wonderful experience for us all. Thank you to all who made this day possible for our residents here at Lancaster Grange.    

We had a fantastic morning here at Lancaster Grange with our very first ‘Darts Tournament’ with Waleys Dart Days.

Our residents came together in our Sherwood Lounge to test their dart skills, encouraging cognitive coordination. Not many of our residents had played darts, but all got into the spirit of the game, inviting staff members to join in.

Elsie, Ann and Ian were surprised with their throwing skills. Ann was delighted to gain a bulls eye. Gerald was the only darts veteran in the group and was thrilled to be able to continue a much loved hobby and interest.

We would like to thank Simon for a great morning and congratulations to Gerald for winning the trophy. 

Over the last couple of days, our residents here at Lancaster Grange have enjoyed walks into our local community of Fernwood. #communitysupport

Yesterday morning, we took a nature walk around our village of Fernwood, through the woods, watching a game of Pétanque and a quick stop to see our friends from Balderton Nursery.

We saw many beautiful trees and English flowers, named by our residents, on our Fernwood nature walks. This afternoon, we took a walk with residents and their families over to our local pub, The Tawny Owl.

We enjoyed great tasting coffees, sweet treats and a fine glass of wine.

Over the last few days, our residents have felt great in the fresh air and were part of our local community of Fernwood village.