Activities at Cheshire Grange Care Home

Cheshire Grange were delighted to be part of Dunelms Community initiative this year.

Each year Dunelm ‘Deliver Joy’ to local Care Homes, Schools and other Community Groups with gifts that have been generously donated from local businesses and individuals.

We are very excited for the residents to receive their gifts and would like to take this opportunity to extend a very warm heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who made this happen.

When we discovered that Andre Rieu had a cinema show we knew we had to make it happen for some of our residents. It was a cold wet damp afternoon but the mini bus soon warmed up with the ladies smiles of anticipation.Once in the cinema and settled into our seats the ladies were taken on a magical journey by Andre and lost themselves in the music and visual spectacle.

On the way home snowflakes started to flutter adding to the magic, the evening was finished off with a fish and chip supper from the local takeaway.

Being part of the local community is very important for our residents, giving them a sense of belonging and connectivity to the village in which they live, we are very proud of our continuing links with St Mary’s C of E Church.

We have regular visits from the church for our communion service, Jill the Curate at St Marys helps us to make connections with the local schools .Christmas is a special time and we welcomed back the coral singers from the church for a beautiful evening carol service and we always take part in the churches Christmas Tree Festival.

This year’s theme was ‘New Beginnings’ we filled our tree with photographs of residents weddings, which was a very big new beginning for most!

It can take a lot of persuading to come along to a Get Active Session, come along, sit and watch, join in when you like …. Throw some props in and suddenly everyone’s competitive side came out, balloon tennis, hockey & paddle ball had residents laughing and showing some very good sporting skill, we are thinking of inviting the GB Olympics selection committee to the next session!

We had started the session with the silk parachute and to end the morning we used the ‘stretchy Octopus’ which require a lot of concentration to keep the ball balanced on the central panel.

When we asked one resident if they’d enjoyed the workout they said ‘I’m sweating and it’s your fault, next time I will wear something better’

We made our first festive trip of the season to nearby favourite, High Legh Garden Centre. The ladies from our Memory Lane Community were entranced by the stunning displays and decorations. After serenading other garden centre visitors with every Christmas song we could remember we visited what was the highlight of the outing, High Legh’s Singing Reindeer!!!

Residents at Cheshire Grange love getting together for a good old sing song and look forward to when an entertainer visits. We are always looking to invite new entertainers to our home who will bring ‘something different to the party’ and this month we welcomed Joe Ashton who had residents in fits of laughter at his wonderful props as well as singing well known tunes, LeeAnn James also visited us for the first time this month and residents had a ‘proper knees up’ afternoon with her party style act.

It is wonderful to see residents and the wider Cheshire Grange coming together for these musical events.