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.
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 Cheshire Grange Care Home
Barbara enjoys birthday celebrations
Cheshire Grange resident, Barbara celebrated reaching her 90th birthday at the start of February.
Barbara was born in 1931in local town Altrincham, and lived in and around the local area for all her live.
The day was filled with pampering and a beautiful cake for Barbara in honour of this landmark birthday, and just to make the day extra special Barbara had a visit from her daughter in the new visiting suite, where there was lots of smiles and laughter, which is one of Barbara’s secrets for a long healthy life.
A random act of kindness
The smallest acts of kindness can make such a difference to a day and its extra special when a complete stranger thinks of us at Cheshire Grange, we were so delighted with this special delivery, thank you so very much Poppy how kind and thoughtful of you.
Cup cake treats for staff
Staff at Cheshire Grange were delighted when Tracy from Sugar Rush Celebration Cakes knocked on their door. Tracy had brought a birthday for one of the residents, but hadn't forgotten the staff and had trays of cupcakes and shortbread biscuits, as a special treat and a thank you for all their hard work. Thank you Tracy for your kindness it very much appreciated by all.
Home receive 1st vaccine
All staff and residents at Barchester’s Cheshire Grange care home, in Warrington, are all delighted to have received the first dose of their Covid-19 vaccinations at the home by Dr Nichols & Dr Mills from Lakeside Surgery after what has been a very challenging year for everyone.
General Manager, Dawn Smith said: “We’ve all been through such a difficult time and this feels like such a big step on the way to getting back to some normality. I am so proud of the team and how they have worked together and continue to do so and we are all so grateful to be prioritised to receive the vaccine first. Now that everyone in the home has had their first dose, we feel like we’ve started on the long road to recovery.”
Looking out on to a Winter Wonderland
We are proud to say that we work in our residents home and this is something we always remember when planning activities. All of the group activities we plan are not always to everyone’s taste and if you were in your own home the thing you might want to do is just sit quietly by the window and watch the world go by, and what better day to do it on after an unexpected snowfall had but a wintery touch to our gardens.
Blooms of Love
January is a dark miserable month at the best of times so we thought it would be a great idea to fill our home with flowers, which also tied into International Flower Day. We sent out a message to our families asking if they could send us messages of love for the residents and also for the staff too.
We got some marvellous heart-warming responses which we made into flowers, residents were given their own to hang in their rooms and we made a second one to decorate the home along with flower painted pebbles from our friends at Lymm Rocks, this really has given everyone something to smile about.
