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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Gardening Club

A project for the summer was to recycle an old pallet into a planter and with the help of Sam, Head of Maintenance who kindly made and painted the planter for the residents to plant seasonal flowers.

Staff and residents alike thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon and the gardening club is one of many daily activities which are great for both the physical and mental well-being of the residents. The homes activities team arrange many activities which match the hobbies and pastimes of our residents as part of the homes life enrichment programme. The planned activities can reduce stress levels, improve strength and most importantly, improve well-being as a result of social engagement.

Bingo fun for Residents

Residents enjoyed an afternoon of fun as they took part in a friendly game of bingo. A little friendly competition took place as Residents raced to be the winner of the bingo game, a popular activity within the home. The ladies remarked at how much they wanted to win, prompting laughs and giggles from fellow Residents in the home.

Gill Conway said “Everyone has really enjoyed themselves today, a bit of friendly competition is always nice and the Residents look forward to playing again soon.”

Residents enjoy a game of dominoes

Residents enjoy traditional games afternoon down their corridor as they embraced their competitive sides to enjoy a traditional games afternoon together. The afternoon began with a dominoes tournament, which saw Residents battle it out to be named dominoes champion before they sat back to enjoy a cup of tea and a chat.

Fun in the sun

Residents of South Grange took advantage of the recent good weather to enjoy the homes beautiful gardens. Everyone commented on how much better they felt for grabbing a breath of fresh air, feeling the sun on their faces and checking on the progress of the plants, including the colourful flowers around them. The ladies even enjoyed a refreshing cooling ice-cream!

Gentleman’s club fun!

The gentlemen of South Grange recently gathered to enjoy an evening together for some games and socialising in one of the homes spacious lounges. The gentlemen and staff gather everyone together for some games and chat over a refreshing drink.

Many of the men choose to spend time in their room, so the staff see it as a great opportunity to get them together and encourage socialising, perhaps sparking up some friendships! On this occasion they enjoy refreshments and nibbles whilst playing a few games of pools and look forward to their next get together.

The most popular part of their get togethers is the games and activities. Dominos is a regular occurrence, with of course different card games enjoyed by all.

Bridge Club

South Grange has a new bridge club. Nan & Jean, two of our new residents, were joined from our local bridge club for a few games. Our quests and residents had a lovely afternoon!