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 Maliga
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 range of activities for our residents to take part in, keep them entertained and enrich their lives. From flower arranging, quizzes, arts and crafts to movies in the cinema, I try to make sure there is something for everyone here to take part in, and tailor events to suit each resident.
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 Cumberland Grange Care Home
SILVER SUNDAY
You may have seen our post last week about our Silver Sunday Hampers…well yesterday our Home Services Advisor Mica and Resident Maureen went along to Age UK Exeter to deliver them.
They met with the wonderful Chief Executive Nicky and Enabling & Home Support Service Manager Karen, to hand over the goodies for distribution.
This team work so incredibly hard to support our community day in and day out, so to be able to put these hampers together for them meant everything and more.
Thank you so much Age UK Exeter for all you do. It is an absolute pleasure to support one another.
& of course with huge thanks once again to Luscombe Drinks for also being apart of this and contributing some of your amazing drinks for the hampers. So incredibly kind.
Baking people happy!
Starting the week off the right way and that’s with cake and lots of it.
Our bistro area is always stocked up with lots of goodies for our residents and visitors to snack on throughout the day! Perfectly modelled by our Senior Carer Jordon (who also happens to be our Employee of the month - well done Jordon)
Todays cake flavour is Carrot Cake, YUM.
Devon Link Up receive £500 from Barchester Charitable Foundation
Last week we had the absolute pleasure of welcoming Jo and Anne from Devon Link Up to Cumberland Grange so that we could present them with their £500 cheque which they were granted by Barchester’s Charitable Foundation. A M A Z I N G.
Devon Link Up is a truly wonderful charity that supports people who live in Devon with learning disabilities and autism.
This money will enable them to do so much, and continue doing such an incredible job for those who use their services.
Anne kindly gifted us a freshly picked pumpkin and some dried flowers, all harvested from their community garden (which we cannot wait to go and visit soon). Our Head Chef Chris is going to make a delicious pumpkin soup for us all to enjoy so thank you Devon Link Up!
We can’t wait to support this fantastic charity even further. Please check out their Facebook page and join us in supporting all of the wonderful work they do.
Silver Sunday Hamper Preparation
Thank you SO much to Luscombe Drinks for contributing towards our Silver Sunday Hampers which we have put together and will be dropping off to Age UK Exeter.
As you can see, some of our residents were overjoyed with your generosity.
Silver Sunday is ‘The national day for older people’ with the aim to combat loneliness. So we have put together some goodies which our local Age UK will find wonderful homes for.
For more information on this fantastic day and how you can get involved, visit https://silversunday.org.uk
Supporting your local community now more than ever is so incredibly important, so it is with our greatest pleasure to be able to do something for this national day - so thank you once again Luscombe Drinks.
Team work!
Grandparents Day
Did you know that this Sunday, October the 2nd is Grandparents Day?
Well today, our fabulous resident Maureen and Home Services Advisor Mica popped over to Monkerton Community Primary School to deliver some lovely ‘Happy Grandparents Day’ colouring in cards so that some of the children could write a lovely card out for their very own Grandparents to give them.
We also took along some wonderful books which give a beautiful story about a young girl and a young boy, visiting their Gran and Grandad in their care home for the first time.
We hope you enjoy your cards and books Monkerton Community Primary School.
A final tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
As a final tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, our staff and residents wanted to do something really special in her honour. We planted two rose plants, one beautiful Queen Elizabeth II specific pink rose and one red rose for her dearly loved Prince Philip. We toasted a glass and spent time reminiscing on all of the amazing things our beloved Queen has done and achieved.
We will keep the lovely memories of Queen Elizabeth II in our hearts forever.
