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
Arts & Crafts
With the rain and the wind, some of our residents fancied doing something nice and relaxing indoors, so we made a cup of tea, put some music on and got the paint brushes out.
We decided to do something a little different this time and paint these wooden boxes which make great plant boxes (or a place to stash chocolates!).
Our star baker of the day
With the weather looking a little gloomy outside today, we decided to whip up some flapjacks to enjoy with a cup of tea this afternoon.
A lovely thank you
Feeling incredibly grateful to have received some beautiful chocolates today from a family member to say thank you 💗 our hearts have been well and truly warmed.
It goes without saying that we do what we do, because we love what we do!
It is such a huge privilege to care for our residents.
NATIONAL DOG DAY
What a wonderful afternoon! We invited our local community and their pooches to come along and join us to celebrate National Dog Day.
We are all dog lovers here at Cumberland Grange and so to have a visit from lots of different doggies and get lots of cuddles was just fabulous.
All dogs were a total dream and we are so thankful to all those who took the time out of their day to join us and make our residents smile.
We are so lucky to have such an amazing community!
NATIONAL RELAXATION DAY
Well, in honour of such a fabulous day, Rachel’s yoga session last week was all about being relaxed. Our residents enjoyed a slow and gentle yoga class with a refreshing foot and facial spritz and some cooling peppermint balm. Perfect and very welcomed in this heat.
As today is the official day for National Relaxation Day, we also had to make today all about finding our zen. So Gosia our Activities Coordinator turned our cinema room into a meditation lounge where our residents were able to follow a guided meditation session, followed by hand massages and a little snooze.
This was enjoyed so much by our residents that they have requested that we do this on a more regular basis 🥰
NATIONAL PROSECCO DAY
Oh we love to celebrate a National Day here at Cumberland Grange…if you couldn’t tell already!
We couldn’t just have Prosecco on it’s own though. So with HUGE thanks to Quickes Cheese Shop in Newton St Cyres for providing us with a selection of different cheeses from Mature Cheddar to Elderflower and Oak Smoked. Which we thoroughly enjoyed with some local chutneys, crackers and grapes - all washed down with a glass (or two) of Prosecco.
Some of our residents family members joined us for the occasion and we had a lovely afternoon in the garden together which was just lovely.
