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
Intergenerational links with Claypole Primary School
Our residents of Lancaster Grange would like to thank the children from Claypole Church of England Primary School
for inviting them to a wonderful gardening experience yesterday.
The children from Claypole School held a non-uniform day last week to raise money to help buy plants for their school and our residents.
The children and residents worked together while planting the flowers and we were so happy when they gave us two potted flower pots to bring back to our care home to showcase in our grounds.
Our residents of Lancaster Grange have developed an exceptional community engagement friendship with the children.
We greatly appreciate all the help from the teachers to allow these intergenerational visits to take place.
Recognising Alzheimer’s Cupcake Day
We recognised Alzheimer’s Society’s Cupcake Day with our own ‘Lancaster Grange Great British Cupcake Bake Off’.
Residents on our Memory Lane Community were joined by our Senior Activity Coordinator Charlotte, baking in the lifestyle kitchen ‘Chocolate and Caramel’ cupcakes.
While our Activity Lead Cherilyn baked downstairs with our residents of Sherwood Community ‘Raspberry Infused’ cupcakes.
Our General Manager Charles Sadler had the hard task of judging the final bakes, and our Memory Lane residents won the friendly competition.
Congratulations to all that took part and supporting the Alzheimer's Society.
The Kings Birthday celebrations
Celebrating the Kings Birthday here today at Lancaster Grange Care Home has been a patriotic experience for all our residents.
Our Residents came together in the coffee shop this morning to watch the Trooping of the Colour on the big screen. This was a moving experience and thoroughly enjoyed. While other residents join Cherilyn at ‘Cookery Club’ for baking Victoria Sponge cake for this afternoons Kings party. The cake turned out fantastic and it was rose surprisingly high to our residents delight !
We welcomed family and friends to join us for the Kings Birthday celebrations this afternoon with Melody Flyte singing uplifting songs.
Our residents happily waved flags and sang to the music, a great family occasion for all and thanking all our visitors for a great celebration.
Memory lane residents enjoying cocktails through community engagement
This morning at our care home, Lancaster Grange, Bradley from The Brews Brothers- Micropub & Coffee House in Fernwood was welcomed by our resident’s for cocktail tasting.
Yesterday was National Cocktail Day and today we celebrated it in style.
Bradley kindly gave us his time to make and talk through ingredients while making cocktails for our residents and alcohol-free cocktails.
Bradley's presentation of the ingredients and how they work together to produce delicious cocktails brought delight to our residents here at Lancaster Grange.
Today's cocktails included a stunning green Grasshopper that was a delight, a delightful Pina Colada, a tantalising Mojito, a non-alcoholic Mojito, and a refreshing Aperol Spritz.
The finale of the morning was Bradley making an alcohol-free Tom Collins that was delicious.
We would like to extend our warmest thanks to Bradley and Brews Brothers for making this amazing tasting experience possible for our residents to enjoy.
Walks to Fernwood village park
At Lancaster Grange this week, we will be participating in Dementia Action Week.
Dementia Action Week is a national event that sees the UK public taking action to improve the lives of people affected by dementia.
In 2024, the Week will take place on the 13th – 19th May.
This afternoon, we thoroughly enjoyed a fantastic group walk over to Fernwood Village Park in the glorious sunshine.
Thanks to the incredible support of our care team, maintenance and activity team, families, and volunteers, we were able to walk/ assist 12 of our residents to the park in our community to enjoy ice cream.
What a wonderful and joyous walk we all had.
Our residents took in the glorious park views, the woodland and we were graced with warm sunshine.
We would like to share a heartfelt thank you to everyone that helped today and enabling our residents to enjoy this happy experience.
A fantastic start to our Dementia Action Week.
Finding forget me nots in our grounds
Earlier this week, when the sun was shining, our residents at Lancaster Grange enjoyed walks and talks around our grounds.
On a previous walk, different residents had spotted forget-me-nots in the garden. This came up in our morning activity, and Dennis was looking forward to finding them.
Skyelett, our Duke of Edinburgh student, helped with garden walks in the afternoon, and to our delight, we found them again.
The flower 'Forget-me-not', a small blue flower, represents remembrance and is long associated with dementia.
Our residents were thrilled and delighted.
Dennis said ‘he felt joyed to see the flower again’ Dennis also mentioned we could move them to a suitable space in the hope they would spread, after inspecting the beautiful flowers.
We continued our afternoon with a fun singalong in the gardens.
