Activities at Cumberland Grange Care Home
We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.
Gosia Andrews
Hello, my name is Gosia and I am the Activities Co-Ordinator here at Cumberland Grange.
I have been in the care sector since 2008, and I also have a degree in teaching. I am here to arrange and run a varied Life Enrichment Programme which is full of fun activities for our residents to take part in. We do lots of different activities here which change on a regular basis, including weekly trips out in our mini bus, flower arranging, live musical performances, arts and crafts, cheese and wine nights and so much more. We also have groups which happen every week, mostly lead by our residents, including Poetry Club, Gardening Club, Politics and Pastries, Cumberland Grange Choir and Knit and Natter.
We have monthly resident meetings where we discuss life at Cumberland Grange. We talk about the activities that we currently run, including activities that our residents would like us to incorporate into the planner.
Making wishes come true is also something that we love to do. So, if our resident has a wish, together we try our best to make that happen, because life at Cumberland is about having fun and making even more special memories.
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 Cumberland Grange Care Home
Easter Celebrations
What a wonderful afternoon we had on Easter Monday celebrating with an Easter party!
Thank you so much to our amazing chefs and kitchen team for putting on a delicious spread, thank you to Dave for always getting us up dancing and singing, and thank you to C&L Aquatics, Reptiles and Pet Centre for joining us with some beautiful animals and reptiles.
So lovely to be joined by lots of families, too.
Such a brilliant afternoon as always!
SUPPORTING OUR RNLI
Thank you so much to the amazing RNLI Exmouth Fundraising and Shop for coming along with your brilliant pop up shop last week. We also want to give a huge thank you to George for the fantastic presentation on the history of the RNLI.
We had a great morning raising a fabulous £331.99 through donations, sales in the shop, the raffle for the Easter egg and the cake sale (thanks Chefs for the delicious cakes!).
The RNLI is a much loved charity here at Cumberland and we always love to welcome the team in to join us for these great coffee mornings.
& well done to our lovely resident Christine who was the lucky winner of the beautiful Italian Easter Egg.
CREAM TEA & PIMMS
With a beautiful garden like ours, we love to spend lots of time out in it making the most of this glorious sunshine.
Over the weekend our Head Chef made lots of fresh scones for a wonderful cream tea spread, with jugs of Pimms!
We soaked up the much welcomed vitamin D whilst in the company of good friends, and had a lovely afternoon together.
YOGA WITH RACHEL
Our residents enjoy Yoga with Rachel every other week - a truly wonderful class to get our mind, bodies and souls working.
Rachel has been delivering this amazing class since the very beginning of time here at Cumberland, so she is a very friendly, familiar face to our residents!
Rachel’s classes are always more than yoga alone - each week, there is also a movement and mind quiz, connecting the dots to keep our memories working. This quiz always has us laughing, too! Which is excellent for the soul.
Thank you Rachel, we love having you here!
For more information on our wonderful home, please visit our website https://www.barchester.com/home/cumberland-grange-care-home or give us a call on 01392 357270.
ART WITH EDWARD
We recently had our fortnightly Art with Edward class, which is a new and much loved activity.
Edward has been apart of the Cumberland Grange family for over 3 years as his wonderful wife Felicity lived here with us at Cumberland. Now, Edward has become an official volunteer with us and visits most days. Edward has built lovely friendships with many of our residents, staff and other family members over the years, so it is with great pleasure to have Edward on board supporting with our Choir and Art classes.
Edward has an amazing musical back ground which he shared with Felicity. He is also an incredible artist, so we feel very lucky to have him sharing his knowledge and skills with us.
This class drawing focus was of an array of beautiful vases and bottles, collected by Edward over the years - some said to be over 200 years old. But, the beauty of this class is that our residents are encouraged to just draw. There are no rules.
It was wonderful to see everyone’s interpretations and visions. We sure do have very talented residents.
Thank you Edward.
For more information on our wonderful home, please visit our website https://www.barchester.com/home/cumberland-grange-care-home or give us a call on 01392 357270.
CUMBERLAND GRANGE OSCARS
We recently celebrated our very own Cumberland Grange awards ceremony, where 10 Residents and 10 Staff members won different awards.
Thank you so much Dave for creating great vibes! We danced and sang away this afternoon and had so much fun.
For more information on our wonderful home, please visit our website https://www.barchester.com/home/cumberland-grange-care-home or give us a call on 01392 357270.
