Activities at Sutton Grange Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
Here at Sutton Grange we work really hard at providing a range of activities to suit our residents needs. We understand that everyone is different and we enjoy supporting our residents in whatever activities they would like to take part in. With a dedicated Activities co-ordinator and a friendly team of volunteers we are always busy with activities. We have several clubs including; gardening, film, craft, music, puzzles, and singing. We enjoy live music and entertainment, both in and outside of the home, and have regular outings on the minibus to local places of interest. Residents take part in animal assisted therapy, afternoon tea, arts and crafts classes, and visits from local community groups and school children. We believe it is important to provide stimulating, meaningful and relevant activities for our residents in order to make friends, and build a warm community to live.
Alison Wareing
Hi, I'm Alison. I am the Activities Assistant here at Sutton Grange, I joined the team in 2016.
I grew up in the local area and started my career working with animals. After I had my daughter, and before I joined Barchester, I trained as a teacher and taught lipreading and communication. The skills I learnt have been invaluable in my role today.
Now, I fill my days spending time with our wonderful Residents, helping them to live their lives to the fullest. I try to make a difference in someone’s life each day.
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 Sutton Grange Care Home
National Storytelling Week
Sutton Grange care home in Banks has been finding out joys of National Storytelling Week which takes place from 29 January to 6 February 2024.
Many of the residents at Sutton Grange Care Home have a knack of telling a great story or two, and National Storytelling Week is a perfect opportunity to experience the joy of storytelling.
Storytelling is one of the oldest art forms in the world so, to help keep the custom alive, residents took part in an intergenerational interactive story telling session with Banks of St Stephens School. The children and residents of Sutton Grange engaged in a Dungeons and Dragons style interactive story led by Activities Coordinator Rob Fortune, in which the residents, children and Deputy Headteacher Mrs Mussell were the stars of their own adventure!
Reminiscence Games
Here at Sutton Grange we have recently had a fabulous time reminiscing about holidays, work and games we used to play when we were young.
Our residents played a game in which they had to throw the dice then answer a question from the game read out by Rob our Activities Coordinator.
The room was full of fun and laughter all morning especially when our residents got the funny stories at work question, they had all of us giggling.
Afterwards we had a nice cup of tea and a chat about places we loved to eat and pubs and clubs we used to like to go to.
Festive Entertainment
Sutton Grange had a wonderful music experience when Kristina came to perform for us all.
All our residents were up singing and dancing whilst Kristina performed a whole plethora of songs from golden oldies to some festive favourites. Our residents had an amazing time and said how much fun they had listening and having a dance to Kristina singing.
Everyone was full of smiles throughout the afternoon and were talking about it throughout the evening.
Residents judge best dressed Christmas tree competition
Residents from Sutton Grange Care Home in Banks had the tough job of judging the amazing entries sent in to their Best Dressed Christmas Tree Competition. The home launched the competition in December to find the Best Dressed Christmas Tree and they were inundated with entries. Photos of all the trees were hung around the home for Residents to view, and after much talk and deliberation over hot chocolate and mince pies, the Residents chose their winner.
Anna Frear, a Senior Night Carer from Sutton Grange was announced the winner. Her tree donned vibrant red flowers and was topped with a crown, a very regal tribute and Residents loved it!
National Elf Day and making Christmas Spirit boards
Sutton Grange's resident Elf, Sparkles came to see us on his way to the North Pole and served our residents with some delicious home made Mince Pies, made by our kitchen team.
Sparkles also stayed and played some Elf Bingo with our residents which went down a treat, everyone said how much fun the Elf Bingo was and looked forward to playing again throughout the Christmas period.
Our residents also made some Christmas Spirit boards which we wrote on what gives us the Christmas Spirit and decorated them with some lovely Christmas stickers.
Sweet Treat Making Virtual Event
We recently had a virtual event, which all of our residents found fascinating. One of our other Barchester homes chefs kindly showed us all how to decorate some tasty Christmas treats. Everyone who got involved said they had such an amazing time all coming together and going through each process carefully to make them all the same as was being shown on our big screen. The finished results were amazing and very tasty too!
Upcoming events
Free Meeting Room
Do you need a meeting room? Look no further. Sutton Grange will happily facilitate your social, professional and networking needs.
Coffee Mornings - 3rd Wednesday of Each Month
We extend a warm invitation for you to join us for a cuppa and to make new friends - all welcome.
Baby & Toddler Group - 2nd Wednesday of Each Month
Everyone invited to pop along for a cup of tea, some snacks and some intergenerational activities with the little ones!
Dementia Choir - Every Wednesday
Come along as we're joined by wonderful local organisation Carousel as they host their weekly Memories R Made Dementia Choir at our home. Everyone is welcome!
