Activities at Leeming Bar Grange Care Home

Leeming Bar Grange care home, in Leeming Bar has spent the week marking Holy Week  from 10th – 16th April as part of their countdown to Easter celebrations.  Staff and residents commemorated the week with a Palm Sunday virtual church service, Maundy Thursday poetry, and an abundance of creative expression throughout the week. In keeping with the spirt of Easter the home also arranged a community Easter Egg hunt for the local children.

General Manager, Michelle Keep of Leeming Bar Grange said: “Holy week is a significant period of the year for many of our residents and staff so it’s important that our life enrichment programme honours these occasions. We have had a great time marking the week with everyone getting involved in a way that is most meaningful to them.

Our residents came together to enjoy an exciting virtual talk courtesy of the team at National Trust Talks Service.  The illustrated talk took us closer to one of Cliveden’s most famous families, the Astors. Our residents were able to discover what motivated William Waldorf Astor, America’s richest man, to purchase Cliveden in 1893 and how the estate became the centre of high society in the 1920 s and 30 s thanks to his son Waldorf and daughter in law Nancy Astor.

We had a lovely time joining Holly and Marie-Therese from the Wallace Collection, for a virtual introduction to the Collection, followed by a sensory exploratory walk through one of the museum’s most famous landscape paintings.   The Collection ranges from Old Master paintings to 18th century French furniture, arms and armour.  We all had a wonderful time and cannot wait to put our creative skills to a test and paint some landscapes in the upcoming days.

Staff and residents at Leeming Bar Grange Care Home in Leeming Bar have taken part in a sponsored 10 hour danceathon to raise money for Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day on March 18th.

Staff and residents at the home donned their red noses and got stuck in to help raise funds for this very important cause. Residents and staff twirled, hopped, skipped, bounced, swayed, clapped, waltzed, boogied, shimmied, and bopped the whole day through to complete a very impressive 10 hour danceathon! Residents and staff love to express themselves through music so what better way to help others than by creating joy in the home!

Comic Relief spends the money raised by Red Nose Day to help people living tough lives across the UK and internationally. Since its launch in 1988, Red Nose Day has become a British institution when people across the country get together to raise money at their home, school and work, accompanied by an exciting night of TV on the BBC, full of comedy and entertainment to inspire the nation to give generously

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Leeming Bar Grange care home in Leeming Bar got creative celebrating the birthday of one of the greatest post-impressionist artists of all time, Vincent Van Gogh, on 30 March. Van Gogh was born in 1853 Groot-Zundert in the Netherlands and he created some of the most famous paintings in the world.

A prolific artist, Van Gogh’s work was notable for its beauty, emotion and colour.  His paintings have been hugely influential since his death, however during his lifetime Van Gogh struggled with poor mental health, he was virtually unknown and remained poor.  He completed more than 2,100 works consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolours, drawings and sketches.

Residents at Barchester Healthcare’s Leeming Bar Grange care home, in Leeming Bar, celebrated Mother’s Day with visits and video calls from family members near and far. The home was beautifully decorated with fresh flowers and bunting for the occasion.

Staff at Leeming Bar Grange arranged live accordion music along with a special ladies luncheon in which Head chef; Toni Scott prepared a special menu including succulent salmon and a traditional roast lunch with roasted pork. After all the morning’s celebrations the ladies relaxed with a spa experience including scented hand massage, glamourous pedicures, and bubbly foot soaks.