Activities at Alice 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.
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Penny Allen
Hi, my name is Penny and I am the Lead Activities Coordinator here at Alice Grange.
I have many years of experience working in care homes in Activities, leisure and lifestyle roles.
I love being part of the Alice Grange team and supporting our residents to live their best lives with fun, interesting, and varied activities available every week. I always feel that the residents' input into our weekly planner is important as it gives all residents equal opportunity to explore new interests as well as keeping up with previous passions and hobbies.
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 Alice Grange Care Home
Community Group Participate
Britten Pears Young Artist Programme holds weekly Participate sessions a group that explores music with their friendly workshop leaders and musicians.
These sessions bring people together in a relaxed and fun atmosphere with music and heritage workshops for adults in Suffolk and join others in our local community to provide an opportunity to take part in activities and connect over tea and cake.
Chinese New Year!
Lucky red cards were exchanged and revealed a fortune. Our residents had fun with these as well as traditional fortune cookies. The home was decorated with hanging red lanterns.
Residents learnt all about the traditions and superstitions of Chinese New Year. Head chef Titus cooked up an oriental feast for lunch and residents enjoyed the delicious food washed down with a tipple or two while taking on a chopstick challenge.
Tenpin Bowling
Our residents had a fun day out Tenpin bowling. The games became very competitive and fun was had by all.
It was a close match with Jackie being our winner.
Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage
What an absolute delight it was for residents June and Richard to be interviewed by Greatest Hits Radio and to tell the story of how they met and what tips they had for the younger generation on how to keep the love flowing and glowing. After 63 years of marriage, there were many tips.
National Activity Providers & Professionals Week
This week, care homes across the country have been celebrating National Activity Providers and Professional Week between January 20th to January 24th. This is the time to show gratitude to those who work to engage, entertain, and enhance the lives of residents in their care.
Residents and staff came together to recognise the hard work that Lead Activities Coordinator Penny puts into every day for her creativity, compassion and commitment to bringing joy, enrichment and connection to all our residents at Alice Grange.
The General Manager, Raciel, presented Penny with a certificate and some gifts and personally thanked Penny for all that she does for not only the residents but also their family and staff of Alice Grange.
Wishes come true
Wishes of wanting fish and chips by the sea, what a glorious day and many memories of times spent at Felixstowe and other holiday destinations.
Sheila, who is 105, used to swim in the sea at Felixstowe as a young girl and was so pleased that the bench that her Mother used to sit on while she swam was still there, as was the bush she used to get changed behind.
John, who used to sail a lot, was so pleased just to be by the sea and to be able to throw pebbles in the sea, saying "There is still the little boy in me."
Margaret, who used to cycle to Felixstowe, recalled how she met her husband.
