Activities at Lancaster Grange Care Home
Activities are the cornerstone of a wholesome home experience and our Activities Coordinators are always putting their creative minds to the test by organising new and exciting social events for residents to partake in. Of course, we take into account the likes and dislikes of those we support, so if someone doesn’t feel like trying something new, there will always be something on offer to reflect their personal interests. For the people who may just prefer some peace and quiet instead, we also offer one-to-one time that can be enjoyed with a nice cup of coffee or just a simple chat – whatever they desire.
Charlotte Thompson
We would like to introduce to you our Senior Activities Coordinator, Charlotte Thompson. Charlotte has worked at Barchester since 2015 and prides herself on delivering a person centred approach, valuing equality, diversity & offering tailored activities. Charlotte joined the team at Tennyson Wharf in October 2022 before moving back to us here at Lancaster Grange in January 2023.
Charlotte is pleased to be welcoming families and volunteers back into the home. Charlotte is a senior activities coordinator and enjoys supporting other homes in our region as part of her job role.
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 Lancaster Grange Care Home
World Card Making Day
Today, our residents here of Lancaster Grange recognised #worldcardmakingday
Our residents came together this morning, in the café with Victoria to make personalised cards for their family members.
Our resident Linda made one for her god daughter, Ann made one for her grandson to say thank you and Lionel and Nicole made birthday cards for their son.
This creative crafting life enrichment morning got us all thinking about the meaning of cards ..
We get them on special occasions, holidays and birthdays, they sit upon our mantle and some of them even get tucked into our store of special memories.
#worldcardmakingday reminds us that the best gifts come from the heart, and the hands and
vision of the people we love.
What a wonderful way to express our creative needs and also with lots of fun involved.
Highfield School visit
We welcomed into our home, children from Highfields School Newark for a intergenerational afternoon of Autumnal Creative Crafting here at Lancaster Grange.
Residents of both Sherwood and Memory Lane Community came together and were delighted at the interaction between the children and themselves.
Harvest themed crafts bridged the generations, our residents are always pleased to see our friends from Highfields that have been visiting us for the past 8 years.
We look forward to them visiting us again at Christmas.
Teacher Liz cox is a friend of us here at Lancaster Grange and supports all the visits here with the children.
One of our residents Linda proudly talks of her time at Highfields school and holds fond memories.
Water Colours
A wonderful afternoon here at Lancaster Grange with Chris from Creative Paths CIC
Chris has joined us for a four week course of creative artwork and our residents are thrilled to have him here.
Chris has been joining us for many years and our residents look forward to the ideas and projects he provides us.
Ann painted a beautiful picture, a vase of flowers who she proudly gave to Nicole for her birthday.
A wonderful time here at Lancaster Grange this afternoon. We look forward to next week’s project.
Chris joins us three or four times a year boosting our mind, body , souls and creative and artist needs.
Our residents feel empowered and extremely proud of their achievements after each visit.
Holding our Dog Show here at Lancaster Grange in our sunny welcoming grounds
What a fantastic day we had here at Lancaster Grange, holding our very own Dog Show.
we welcomed so many families with their dogs and our residents happily joined their loved ones and friends in our sunny grounds.
The Dogs behaved extremely well and the resident watched closely as they performed tricks and jumps, we all took turns in naming dogs for the category’s and we all agreed that we wanted to keep them all here at Lancaster Grange.
Each dog was presented with biscuits the residents had baked and a medal and certificate. We cant wait to see you all again.
Next year we will welcome Angus a visitor, that nominated himself to help with next years show.
A fantastic 4th Dog show here at Lancaster Grange care home.
Visiting our local community and garden centre at Downtown Grantham
Going out on trips is always an experience here our resident fully look forward to, Downtown in Grantham is a place all these residents used to visit when living at home. Dennis especially as an avid gardener he would pick up flowers and stop for a coffee, our resident Ann had many a trips browsing at Boundary mills, their sister store, what a great experience and we even go to see te Christmas decorating.
Yesterday a group of residents enjoyed a drive in our homes minibus here at Lancaster Grange.
Encouraging our residents to stay independent, we travelled to our local Garden Centre Superstore at Grantham, for essential shopping.
Residents were thrilled to be able to buy silk flower arrangements, bird feeder, chocolate, birthday gifts, wine all under one roof at Downtown Garden Centre, Coffee Shop.
We would like to say a big thank you to the shop assistants that helped our residents fulfil their shopping experience.
Dementia friendly coffee morning here at out care home Lancaster Grange
This morning at Lancaster Grange, we based our Dementia friendly Coffee Morning around bringing the outside - inside.
Combing Mind, Body & Soul we concentrated on our sense of smell this morning.
We researched and found.. The memory of natural smells was derived from the participants' experiences with their family, relatives, friends and themselves.
Most participants recollected flower fragrance and exhibited positive emotions directly for this memory.
This certainly was the case this morning on our community of Memory Lane, as we explored many different smells ranging from cut grass, lavender, rosemary, thyme and honey suckle.
We also visually named many flowers from our gardens this morning evoking happy memories.
Our residents socially engaged while reminiscing about Sunday dinner, what flowers they grew and also making lavender bags.
We also enjoyed delicious coffee cake baked here at Lancaster Grange, which some of our residents also recognised the flavour.
We finished our morning with hand tied flowers which we happily placed in our dining room, for us all to admire.
Our Memory Lane Moments of Joy.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
