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
Mocktail Afternoon
South Grange residents celebrated by creating their own cocktails, including: Fruity Sunrise, Non-Alcoholic Sangria and Virgin Mojitos.
The cocktails that were made were the choice of the residents.
The global celebration marks the recorded definition of a cocktail in 1806.
Resident Sheila said: "This was brilliant fun getting to sample some mocktails, there really isn't
anything better. I very much enjoyed trying some different mixes. I always like to try new things and the company was even better".
Therapy Pets
Our residents were so happy to see Korky and his owner Sandy again after their well-deserved break.
Korky is a lovely gentle Labrador Retriever mix and loves being around people. He is a retired guide dog but is now a registered therapet at the great old age of 12. He still has his loving nature and is a big friendly giant.
Korky and Sandy are always greeted with smiles and outstretched hands from residents and very often it encourages them to share stories about pets they have owned in the past. Residents are always at hand with biscuits to treat him for being such a good boy!
Home coordinates Christmas Foodbank donation
Kind-hearted residents and staff from South Grange coordinated a collection of non-perishable food items and toiletry products. All the donations were handed over to their local Dundee and Angus Foodbank which will give these to members of the community who are struggling this Christmas.
Senior Activities Coordinator, Gill Conway commented: “Everyone at the home is very much aware that lots of people are finding it difficult to feed themselves and their families this year and we all wanted to help in whatever way we can. We put our heads together to come up with a plan of action to collect as much non-perishable food and other useful products as possible to help those less fortunate than ourselves”.
Step back into time
Residents wrapped up nice and cosy for our afternoon in the cafe area, which was decorated with homemade paper garlands made by the residents. Chef Adam got the fire started for roasting our chestnuts and de-shelled them for us to enjoy.
The activity girls dressed up in their tweed jackets, bonnets and cosy scarfs to serve everyone delicious hot chocolate from the flasks.
We finished the afternoon off by singing some festive songs such as Chestnuts roasting on the open fire and many more!
Christmas Photoshoot with Santa
Staff, residents and families have spent the month of December getting into the festive spirit by dressing up in a Christmassy fashion and having their photos taken with our beautiful Christmas scene.
Our scene features Santa in his sleigh, Rudolph, our Christmas tree, a cute polar bear and a cosy looking backdrop.
It’s been lovely to see families getting in on the action too and having that updated family photo taken!
Everyone was included even if that meant taking a photo backdrop to the individuals.
Smiles all round!
Siblings reunite
Siblings Jane and Ged reunite as residents here at South Grange. Resident, Jane joined us in June 2021 and settled in to her new surroundings prior to Jed, her younger brother moving into the home in July 2024 and since then we have watched the positive impact this has had on both.
We have noticed that the siblings both share a love for music and singing and how sweet it is that they can relive these moments together, enjoying live performances and the homes varied life enrichment programme.
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.
