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
Shell crafting with our residents here at Lancaster Grange
We’ve enjoyed a busy week here at Lancaster Grange, celebrating residents birthdays each day this week, from all communities.
We pride ourselves with person centred celebrations, ranging from meaningful room visits, private family birthday get-togethers or resident community sing-a-longs.
Our residents of Sherwood Community got creative at a crafting workshop with Cherilyn, decorating scallop shells that had been donated by Orkney Fish shop.
Our ladies made beautiful little trinket dishes for their Christmas Craft Stall, along with other resident made craft will be on sale, this will be held in December.
Our creative shell crafting was a great experience for our residents and they felt extremely proud of their end results boosting their esteem.
An afternoon all about Quilting with guest speaker Lindy
We started our week here at Lancaster Grange with a interesting talk by Lindy on her ‘Hobby of Quilting’ on our Sherwood Community.
Our residents were in ore of Lindy’s gifted talents and listened to the presentation of design, process, making and hours of sewing, that goes into making these spectacular quilts.
Ann said it had been a “wonderful afternoon”, we would like to thank Lindy and her assistants on the day, Janet and Kira.
Lindy proudly donated a quilt tour residents which the activity’s team will use on individual visits to residents who have the same hobby and interests.
Our residents of Lancaster Grange coming together to recognise World Children’s Day
We had a fabulous day here at Lancaster Grange recognising ‘World Children’s Day’ around out home and on both our Memory Lane and Sherwood Community.
Residents of our Memory Lane Community enjoyed our ‘Dementia Book Club’ reading from the Oomph Wellness ‘A Bit of a Sweet Tooth’. This raised lots of stories and child hood memories.
Residents reminisced about happy childhood memories, visiting the local corner shop with their pocket money to buy sweet treats, making our mouths water.
Jean was able to share with us her years of working at Rowntree’s and Terrys of York, while Michael shared is love of Aniseed balls and Turkish Delight.
We all spoke about our childhood and growing up, some of our residents bought along pictures of themselves as children and we had a great afternoon of family reminisce, boosting our mind, body and souls.
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.
