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
Weekly Exercise Class
The residents always enjoy doing some exercise and moving about so once a week we do an exercise class with them. We started off with some gentle chair exercises starting from our head and finishing with our feet, whilst listening to some relaxing music. We then work on our hand to eye coordination with some ball throwing into the hoop. The residents enjoyed some light refreshments after all their hard work!
Flower Pressing
We marked National floral Design Day by going for a walk around the garden to pick a range of flowers from our lovely displays now that spring is approaching. We then pressed our floral designs to make a lovely floral collage for our café area. The ladies used a mixture of colourful flowers and greenery for their master pieces. It certainly brightens up the area very well and looks beautiful for everyone to see!
London Ladies
As part of our International Women’s Day celebrations, Residents from across our services were thrilled to join tour guide, Mandy Morrow, for an exciting talk about some Legendary London Ladies.
Mandy shared the fascinating stories of eight ladies with us, from the one of the richest heiresses in the world to the original 'Roaring Girl'.
Everyone who participated truly enjoyed the experience and were delighted to take a walk down memory lane.
Bingo Bonanza
Across the country our homes and hospitals came together to find out which care home or hospital had the best Bingo players as they teamed up for Barchester’s Bingo Bonanza.
Residents were treated to some exciting virtual games of Bingo as part of Barchester’ very own game show series.
Everyone who participated had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.
National Bird Feeding Month
To celebrate National Bird Feeding in February, South Grange residents got creative and made their very own bird feeders from paper cups. The paper cups are reusable so the birds can tear them up and use them as part of their nest. We had a great afternoon chatting about what our favourite birds whilst wrapping up warm to hang our own bird feeders in a space in the garden. Most residents hung them up within view of their window so they can bird watch whilst in the warmth, which is a great idea!
World Book Day prep
Our local Grange nursery children paid us their weekly visit where we started on our preparations for World Book Day by helping the children make puppets based on the children’s book ‘Is that an elephant in my fridge’. The children choose different characteristics of the elephants based on the story so some made a pirate elephant, ballerina elephant whilst others made a super power elephant. They have turned out great and we can’t wait to use them next week when we have our Book Bug session and tea party!
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.
