What types of care does South Grange Care Home offer?

South Grange Care Home offers Nursing care, Residential care, Services for under 65.

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.

Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Gillian Conway

Senior Activities Coordinator

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

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Birthday celebrations

Resident, Patricia celebrated her birthday in style surrounded by staff and friends in the home who presented her with her a delicious home-made birthday cake. The celebrations also included a virtual performance by popular vocalists, Kirsten and John which led Residents to dance and sing-a-long too.

Gill Conway, activities coordinator said: “It was a lovely afternoon which was enjoyed by everyone and it was nice that Patricia could share her day with all the other residents and the staff made sure her birthday celebrations were spectacular!”

Jolly Sweets Trolley

The ‘Jolly Sweets Trolley’ goes around weekly, giving South Grange residents the opportunity to enjoy some of their favourite sweet treats. Residents are given a choice of old fashioned sweets, sugar-free sweets, chocolates and crisps.

The residents love seeing it get rolled out with some of their choice treats, and sometimes they will request for it to go around the home more than once a week. While going around the home with the trolley, activities catch up to ensure that everyone’s firm favourites are available, and also what kind of different activities they would like to see, as well as to let them know what has been planned for the week ahead.

The mobile trolley is very popular at South Grange and it's lovely to see the residents smiles as they see it rolling along.

Garden reunions

For some residents at South Grange care home the long awaited reunion with family and friends became a reality recently, as garden visits have now been allowed to commence at the home.

There has been much careful planning and preparation for this moment behind the scenes at Barchester Healthcare, who run South Grange care home. Social distancing was still in place, and homes that are able to take part must have a large accessible garden.

It was welcome news to so many residents, family, and friends, who were kept apart for so long following strict government guidance. Residents and their loved ones got together in the home garden for visits, and the garden was fully of joy and chatter.

Smiles all around for Friendship Day

South Grange had a blast celebrating Friendship Day on 30th July with a virtual concert and a traditional tea party. Throughout the week Residents made friendship stones and dedicated their stones to friends that they love.

Residents and staff gathered in the garden to display a collection of balloons to remember those friends that they have lost as they look forward to welcoming new friends to the home. There were smiles all round as staff also shared the importance of friends and how they can enrich your life.

Game set & match

Residents and staff at South Grange were at the ready for Wimbledon with delicious strawberries and cream, which was due to run from 29th June - 12th July. This year however, due to the current situation, there was a change to proceedings.

The All England Tennis Club have unveiled ‘The Greatest Championships’, a digital recreation of the famous tournaments bought to life online to take place over two weeks, starting Monday June 29.

Tennis fans at South Grange were delighted by this and were able to enjoy the event from the comfort of their own armchair. Residents and staff got together to watch the matches, and also celebrated by playing balloon tennis before proceeding onto having a themed party with food, music, decoration and afternoon tea with a choice of scones or strawberry and cream.

World Chocolate Day

Residents at South Grange revelled in all things sweet on World Chocolate Day with a range of chocolatey activities on Tuesday 7th July. Staff helped residents make mouth-watering fresh fruit and chocolate kebabs as they joined in with a chocolate themed quiz to continue the celebrations.

Residents voted on their favourite version of the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory – Gene Wilder or Johnny Depp? The original 1971 version won the vote, which residents enjoyed watching.