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.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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
Bus trip to Camperdown
Some of our ladies joined us for a bus trip through to Camperdown Country Park in Dundee today. The weather wasn’t on our side for a picnic outside (which was freshly made by our chef) so we ate on the bus instead.
Luckily the sun came out for us to enjoy a leisurely stroll around the zoo to see the animals. Followed by a well-deserved cup of tea from the cafe.
Dogs Trust
Residents across our homes had a fantastic time during a special live virtual event, led by Jennifer and Emily from Dogs Trust, the UK's largest dog welfare charity. Jennifer and Emily took us on a journey to discover the rich history of Dogs Trust and their facilities.
Using captivating video and photo footage, our residents were able to explore rehoming centres and learn more about the highest level of welfare offered there. It was a delightful experience for everyone, especially our dog lovers.
Summer BBQ and Live Concert
Our Seven Arches unit were very kindly gifted money from a residents family members. Residents and staff came to an agreement that they would like to host a Summer BBQ with live music.
The residents and staff spent time in between the cafe area and garden taking a mixture of silly and nice pictures with our photo frame whilst our talented chef cooked our delicious food on the BBQ. Everyone agreed the food was brilliant.
Followed by our summer concert in the afternoon with Paul Sullivan, where the elderly joined in the celebrations. Everyone joined in by singing, dancing and clapping along to the music.
Even Elvis came and joined us for a few songs but had to leave the building quickly to go to his next gig. Paul was requested to sing Bring Him Home, a song from Les Miserable which was so moving it brought some to tears and enjoyed by all.
The weather wasn’t on our side in the afternoon to have our concert outdoors but that didn’t stop us having a great day full of fun.
Nursery Picnic
Our beautiful garden is a great environment for our residents and nursery children to enjoy a variety of amazing outdoor activities. Everyone here at South Grange has made such special bonds with the children who visit regularly. School is fast approaching for our little friends and we decided a picnic in the garden would be a great way to celebrate the graduation of nursery!
Residents selected games and activities that the children enjoy and decorated the garden for their arrival. Everyone enjoyed having a sports day with different stations of games and puzzles. Teams were formed, residents being the team captains for the children as they worked their way around each station. We aren’t sure who had more fun, the kids or the adults!
Life's a picnic at South Grange
South Grange care home in Monifieth went all out for National Picnic Week which is celebrated this year from June 17-25 with Residents inviting their local nursery children to celebrate the week with them.
Our beautiful garden is a great environment for our residents and nursery children to enjoy a variety of amazing outdoor activities. Everyone here at South Grange has made such special bonds with the children who visit regularly.
RAF Hendon
Across our services we had a lovely time joining Rhiannon Watkinson from the RAF Museum London for an interactive talk exploring the exciting and innovative aviation history of Hendon.
Our residents were able to learn about the first flights from the fields at Hendon, the creation of the London Aerodrome and Battle of Britain pilots who flew from RAF Hendon.
The talk also included photographic and film material from the Museum’s archive. Residents across our homes had a fantastic time and we truly enjoyed the virtual experience.
Upcoming events
May
The month of May is the gateway to Summer and we have lots of fun things planned!
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.
