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.

Enriching life
Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Penny Allen

Lead Activities Coordinator

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.

Life-encriching activities booklet Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.

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

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Therapy Dog Visit

Therapy dogs nationwide is a national charity where visiting volunteers take their dogs into establishments to provide comfort,distraction and stimulation.We are lucky enough for our own volunteers Jools and Mike who are also volunteers of Therapy dogs nationwide and each week we are delighted when they visit with their therapy dog Bailey.Bailey brings so much joy to residents and staff alike
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Retail Therapy

Who doesn't like a bit of retail therapy?We headed to Asda in Ipswich this week, and really enjoyed shopping and getting into the Christmas Spirit. With only five weeks until Christmas day, what better way to spend the morning than shopping and 'stocking' up on some Christmas gifts for family and friends.Carol even found a Christmas gnome that had a striking resemblance to her.
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Halloween Party 2024

Happy HalloweenThere were no tricks but plenty of treats as we celebrated Halloween, inviting children from the community, friends and family of Alice Grange to come along and join in on the fun, and what a fun day we had.Thanks to Bruce Aldred Entertainment for entertaining us, Hope you enjoyed yourself as much as we did.
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Woodbridge Pumpkin Patch

We headed out to Woodbridge Pumpkin Patch and what fun we had choosing pumpkins and enjoying hot drinks in the fresh air.The residents that we took enjoyed watching the youngsters having fun running around with their wheelbarrows gathering their pumpkins before celebrating Halloween tomorrow.
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Its never too late for a Personal Trainer

This week we had an extra intense chair-based exercise class with personal trainer Darren Barnes. The movement of these gentle exercises increases blood flow, keeps joints active and lubricated, strengthens muscles, and helps reduce falls.

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When is early too early?

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! We headed out to Dobbie's Garden Centre. The Christmas decorations and displays were starting to fill the shelves and we did a spot of Christmas shopping before enjoying elevenses.