Activities at Cheshire Grange Care Home
The activities team are constantly striving to meet the varied needs of everyone who lives in our home, offering a wide range of group and individual social events. There are regular visits from entertainers, along with craft activities, baking, games & puzzle days and pampering sessions, which fill the week. However, we can always find time for outings and just spending that little bit of special time with residents who enjoy the peace and quiet. We aim to bring the activities to the individual, whilst making it a whole home experience.
Jo Eland
After originally starting at Cheshire Grange in May 2015, I'm delighted to be back in the role of Activities Coordinator. It is a privilege to be in this role and spend time, getting to know our ladies and gentleman and their loved one, whilst doing all the fun things that can make such a difference to their days.
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 Cheshire Grange Care Home
Bekky B Music
We welcomed back Bekky B who delivered a wonderful person-centred afternoon of music, giving residents a choice of songs and speaking to each of them in turn.
There was a lot of dancing from the activity team, including many new moves involving gymnastic ribbons!!
Exercise Fun
It was time to get active again and make up for all the chocolates and mince pies over the festive period.
A team-based exercise session brought out the competitive side of the residents and one or two members of the staff also.
Not only were we stretching our muscles, several laughter lines were improved too!
Flower Power
To celebrate International Flower Day, we had a flower-themed week which included quizzes, flower identification, flower-based poems and a creative project which saw the ladies putting together a colourful floral collage.
Whilst being creative, the conversation flowed, we learnt about what flowers residents had in their wedding bouquets, their favourite flowers and different uses for flowers medicinally and in cookery.
In fact, it can be said we had a ‘bloomin’ marvellous time!
Festive Afternoon Tea
We received a very warm welcome from staff at the local hotel, Statham Lodge Hotel, where residents were joined by family members to enjoy the treats on offer.
Several of our residents have very fond memories of attending functions at the Statham Lodge, Olive was delighted to share stories of her younger days meeting the chaps at the dances there.
Dear Father Christmas...
In the midst of all the decorations, Christmas music, parties, outings and fun and games it seemed very appropriate to have some quiet reflective time whilst keeping the Christmas spirit.
We wrote letters to Father Christmas, it was a delightful time of gentle reminiscence and thoughtfulness as residents wishes and desires for the festive season were far less material than the letters they might have written as children.
Banding together with the Salvation Army
The Salvation Army Brass Band playing in the streets is synonymous to Christmas and a memory many of our residents hold dear.
The first ever Salvation Army band. which played its first concert on Christmas Day 1879 in Consett, County Durham, was founded by a young iron worker in the village and some fellow converts to support the work of The Salvation Army.
Brass bands were a very big part of mining communities in the 19th Century and soon the numbers grew beginning a heart-warming Christmas tradition.
145 years Salvation Army Bands are still recreating the joy of Christmas and our residents were delighted for that joy to be brought to them by The Warrington Salvation Army Band both in the home at Cheshire Grange & a visit to their church for their Christmas Concert.
