Activities at Drummond 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.
Katie Nicolson
Katie Nicolson is our Head of activities here at Drummond since August 2023 beforehand she worked as an activity assistant in the home for two years. Before coming to Drummond Katie has worked in many care roles over the years and studied Psychology and Sociology at Queen Margaret’s University and was awarded a Degree of Bachelor of science in Psychology and Sociology at the start of 2022. Katie loves being part of the Activity department here at Drummond Grange and bringing new and exciting opportunities and experiences to the residents. When she’s not at work Katie is a local Girl Guide leader and youth leader for her churches youth group.
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 Drummond Grange Care Home
Who let the dogs out!
Staff, residents, relatives and the local community came together at Drummond Grange to enjoy a community Dog Festival that was held in the home’s grounds on 16th March.
The activity team spent the month leading to the event contacting local doggy businesses and charities to get involved. The event was sponsored by the lovely team at Heritage vets practice, who were there to offer support and advice throughout the afternoon and provide any doggy first aid.
London Ladies
As part of our International Women’s Day celebrations, Residents from across our services were thrilled to join tour guide, Mandy Morrow, for an exciting talk about some Legendary London Ladies.
Mandy shared the fascinating stories of eight ladies with us, from the one of the richest heiresses in the world to the original 'Roaring Girl'.
Everyone who participated truly enjoyed the experience and were delighted to take a walk down memory lane.
Bingo Bonanza
Across the country our homes and hospitals came together to find out which care home or hospital had the best Bingo players as we teamed up for Barchester’s Bingo Bonanza.
Residents were treated to some exciting virtual games of Bingo as part of Barchester’ very own game show series.
Everyone who participate had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.
Master Florist tutorial
Across our homes we had a fantastic time joining, Kathryn Delve, Master Florist, for a Valentine’s-inspired live virtual flower arranging demonstration. Kathryn shared brilliant and creative ways to decorate our tables with beautiful flowers that are sure to make your heart swoon!
Those participating in this virtual event put their skills to the test and followed along with some amazing creations of their own. Residents truly enjoyed the experience.
Burns Night 25th January 2024
We celebrated life of our Scottish bard with designing and weaving our own tartan, coming up with our own Scottish poetry, testing our Scottish knowledge with a quiz before settling in with a good old Scottish singalong with wee dram in hand. We had our friend and piper Struan come along to give us o few songs on the pipes before tucking into some yummy dinner prepared by head chef Chris Lewis starting with Haggis Bonbons with whiskey mayo then a choice of Haggis Neeps and Tatties or stovies and finishing with the Scottish classic Cranachan.
Squirrel day 19th January 2024
Always one to love a themed day when Head of Activities Katie found out it was international squirrel day we just had to celebrate. Turns out there is not to many squirrel based activities so we started the morning with painting watercolour squirrels in the forest then in the afternoon we challenged ourselves to a squirrel based quiz which we were shocked to find out the squirrels sweat from their paws and that there are 285 species of squirrels.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Counting down to Christmas with a fun filled month ahead and we extend a warm invitation for you to join us - all welcome!
