Activities at Alice Grange Care Home
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.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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
Harvest Festival
To celebrate Harvest Festival our residents have a created a wonderful display for our lounge. Made from salt dough and representing the traditional aspects of the festival, the residents showed off their creative skills with the baking and decorating.
Royal Appreciation
Residents at Alice Grange were delighted to receive a letter of thanks from her Majesty the Queen.
The letter was sent in appreciation of the splendid cake that the residents had designed and baked as part of a competition to celebrate the Queen's Official Birthday. Research into the Queen's favourite type of cake and royally inspired design had clearly been appreciated at the Palace when the Queen received a photo of the cake.
The letter hangs in pride of place on the wall in the reception area of Alice Grange.
Flower Arranging
The residents at Alice Grange have learnt a new skill - flower arranging. Our wonderful activities coordinator Penny was a fully trained florist prior to joining the team at Alice Grange and has kindly led a flower arranging class for residents. Focusing on colours, height and formation the class was enjoyed by all.
Fun In The Sun
Our residents have made the most of our wonderful garden whilst the sun is still shining. Using their exercise machines, Facetiming family and relaxing with coffee and cake - all the more enjoyable in the sunshine. We are very fortunate to have such fantastic garden facilities here at Alice Grange.
Interactive Table
Our residents at Alice Grange were really looking forward to trialing the interactive table. On the day, many residents enjoyed playing games and puzzles and there is so much more to this wonderful device.
After such a positive reaction the residents determined that they would like one purchased for the home. As such we should be taking delivery of one of these fantastic tables soon.
Garden Visits
Our garden visits are really popular reuniting residents with their families. There were lots of air hugs and blowing of kisses. Here we have one of our residents who recently celebrated her 90th birthday.
Upcoming events
Our Monthly Pudding Club
On the last Tuesday of each month we host our themed pudding club, providing a variety of delicious home made bakes and treat for everyone. Come along for free to see more.
Elf Day 2024
We celebrate Elf Day on Wednesday 4th December. Come in dressed up as an elf and join in the fun with staff and residents at Alice Grange
Santa's Coming to Town
On Saturday 7th December the big man himself will be at Alice Grange as we open up our Christmas Santa's Grotto.
Christmas Jumper Day
Get your Christmas jumpers out and ready for Thursday 12th December as we all dress up for the day at work.
Christmas Pudding Club
Join us on Tuesday 17th December from 3pm for a special festive themed Pudding Club to finish the year off in style.
Christmas Party
Join us on Monday 23rd December as we get fully into the spirt of Christmas with a big Christmas Party in the home. Everyone's invited!
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
Cheese and Wine Party
Join us for a New Years Eve Cheese and Wine and Jazz party on Tuesday 31st December from 2pm as we get ready to see in 2025
