Activities at South Grange Care Home
Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
Gillian Conway
Gill has worked for South Grange since 1996. Gill's role in the home is ensuring our residents enjoy a fulfilling quality of life. The programme that Gill and her colleagues provide is stimulating, creative and varied.
Gill enjoys the time she spends with residents and families. The team welcomes any suggestions made by residents and family members in relation to activities.
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 South Grange Care Home
Celebrating Cadbury's
Residents across our services had a wonderful time joining Cadbury for an interactive virtual talk on their fascinating 200-year history.
Residents joining learnt interesting facts about the chocolate giant, shared memories, and reminisced about their favourite sweet treats.
It was a heartwarming experience filled with laughter, nostalgia, and plenty of chocolatey goodness!
Sunflower planting
Residents joined in with our first gardening club of the year, unfortunately it had to be done inside due to the rubbish weather in Scotland. To kick start the first gathering we coincided this with National Sunflower Planting day.
We had a busy afternoon planting our very own individual sunflower seeds for the year ahead. We are looking forward to seeing them grow and flourish into the beautiful flowers they are. Our pots are out in the garden for everyone to see.
May Day concert
Residents and staff at South Grange had a great afternoon celebrating the May Day holiday with live music from popular vocalist, Paul Sullivan. Everyone had a great time getting up to dance and sing-a-long.
Residents and families were joined by members of our local community with resident, Betty and her family making it a special moment between four generations! We were able capture the youngest and oldest members of the family sharing a loving kiss.
We always welcome and encourage families and the local community to join us for our events, It goes to show that age has no boundaries which can be seen in this photograph of a small child and a great grandmother still celebrating together and making more memories.
Couple celebrate 70th wedding anniversary
South Grange resident Beth and her husband David celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. Beth met her husband David when he moved to her home town of Inverness for 6 months for his work. They had a lovely white wedding in the Methodist Church followed by their reception at one of the local hotels on the 3rd of April 1954. David’s family and friends travelled to the wedding by bus from Aberdeen, where David lived.
In 1967 David was promoted while working for the GPO and the happy couple moved to Dundee. They have 1 daughter, Linda who all lived happily in the family home that David still lives in. Linda went on to have 2 sons, Mark and Scott whom the couple are very proud of. Beth says the reason their marriage has lasted 70 years is because David is such a gentlemen.
Visiting our friends at Fordmill
What a lovely afternoon we had being welcomed by staff and residents at one of our sister homes, Fordmill in Montrose. The home has been recently decorated and this trip allowed our residents to have a good glimpse of the interior.
We joined in with their arts and crafts club where we helped make cards in preparation for their virtual trip to Amsterdam. These cards included us colouring in spring tulips and having a sing song to ‘Tulips of Amsterdam’.
It was really nice to meet their residents whilst we chatted and got to know each other over a cuppa and of course delicious cake. We can’t wait to see them all again soon
Come sing!
Residents across our homes and hospitals had a fantastic time with vocal coach Dan Cooper from Biiah as he led an amazing sing-a-long session for residents to enjoy.
Residents who joined the event were able to learn different techniques as they sang the famous ‘I Can See Clearly Now’ by Jimmy Cliff and ‘Here Comes the Sun’ by The Beatles.
Across our homes there were smiles and laugher all around. The session was such a success and was great for the mind, body and soul.
Upcoming events
Volunteers - Could you make a difference?
There are endless ways to get involved and we'd love to hear from you!
Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
Calling all heros! Come and take a break with us and enjoy a warm drink and a slice of homemade cake.
Community Cafe - Last Tuesday of the month
We extend a very warm welcome for our community friends to join us at our monthly Community Cafe - all welcome.
