Activities at Leeming Bar Grange Care Home
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Kimberley Calvert
Hi my name is Kimberley, Senior Activities Coordinator, and here at Leeming Bar our life enrichment programme is varied, providing choice for our residents and incorporating their interests and hobbies. We all know that keeping active is important. We have created a wonderful culture within Leeming Bar, and we work together to give residents the best possible experience.
We are here to ensure that residents enjoy an environment that is both stimulating and socially active. We ensure the team knows each residents' preferences, so that we can deliver a person-centred program of events and activities. Essential to our homely feel is the strong relationships of trust we build with residents, and their families and friends.
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 Leeming Bar Grange Care Home
Back in the Swim of Things!
As part of our 'Wish Upon A Star at Leeming Bar ' initiative our lovely Alma wished to be able to go swimming.
Alma is from a very active family and used to swim every other Monday after work (with the other Monday being a night for roller skating!) Alma was beyond grateful exclaiming "you don't know what this means to me". We hope to make this outing a regular activity, with Alma's friends from the home also hoping to go along with her next time to share in the fun!
A huge thank you to the team at Bedale Leisure Centre for their fantastic customer service! We can't wait to come back again soon!
Sprinkle Kindness like Confetti
On 17th February we marked 'Random Acts of Kindness Day' by showing gratitude to one another.
Our wonderfully caring residents created goodie bags and keyring keepsakes to share with others and were absolutely thrilled to be able to sprinkle kindness throughout the home and see their creations bringing a smile to others.
National Storytelling Week
Leeming Bar Grange care home in Leeming Bar has been finding out the favourite stories of residents and staff, and sharing them during National Storytelling Week. Many of the residents at Leeming Bar Grange care home have a knack of telling a great story or two, and National Storytelling Week is a perfect opportunity to experience the art of storytelling.
Storytelling is one of the oldest art forms in the world so keep the custom alive residents have been creating their own short story to share with their great grandchildren and youngsters from the local community. Overseen by resident and previous art teacher; Angela, residents not only wrote their story but created illustrations to bring the story to life!
Burns celebrations
Leeming Bar Grange care home in Leeming Bar prepared a traditional Burns Night Supper to the tune of bagpipes & accordion and the fun continued well into the night. Staff and residents at the home were involved in a number of activities including learning the ‘pas-de-basque; a traditional Scottish dance to mark the Scottish institution, including giving the time-honoured address to the ‘Great chieftain O’ the pudding race’ – the haggis.
Say Cheese!
Here at Leeming Bar Grange, on 20th January, residents celebrated National Cheese Lovers Day. We held our very own cheese & wine soiree! Residents loved sampling the range of cheeses all washed down with a cheeky bit of fizz!
Happy Hat Day
This January we celebrated Happy Hat Day with Oomph Wellness. Residents had fun designing their own funky hats to make others smile! We hope they make you smile too!
Upcoming events
May
May is the gateway to Summer and we have lots of exciting things planned - all welcome.
Community Cafe
Join us for our monthly community cafe where we will also have some musical entertainment
Emergency Services - Take a break with us!
Calling all emergency services personnel - drop in and take a break on us. We will have hot drinks and sweet treats on offer.
Looking for a place to host a meeting?
For more information why not pop in and see what Leeming Bar Grange can offer you.
Volunteers - Could you make a difference?
We recognise the impact a Volunteer can make on the lives of our residents, do you have any spare time? For more information we'd love to hear from you.
