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.
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
New Years Eve celebrations with a magic show from David Fox
We were thrilled to welcome Davi Fox Magic back for our New Year’s Party here at Lancaster Grange. Each year David visits us here at Lancaster Grange and provides a great show!!
David’s Magic Show kept our residents of all communities enchanted with his magic tricks, involving the ladies and gentlemen in the audience.
Residents were thrilled to receive personally themed balloon art, made in front of their eyes by David himself.
Dennis gave a chuckle when presented with a balloon motorcycle, Ann was thrilled with her balloon horse and Alice, our Care Practitioner, challenged David to make a balloon Guinea pig, which we all thought he did really well.
Celebrating Elvis Presley’s Birthday with our residents here at Lancaster Grange
We celebrated what would have been ‘The King of Rock’n’roll’s’ 90th Birthday in style here at Lancaster Grange with our very own ‘American Diner'.
Residents joined the activities team, Charlotte and Cherilyn, along with volunteer, Owen, for an afternoon of music, American diner food tasting, quizzes and puzzles.
On our menu we had homemade dishes that we had made in Cookery Club yesterday:
Pecan Pie with ice-cream
Blueberry Pancakes with Maple syrup
Ring iced doughnuts
Rocky Road
and Knickerbocker Glory, which was very popular.
A lovely multisensory experience that was brought to our residents as part of their life enrichment weekly program.
Elsie proudly delivery her hats to charities
Here at Lancaster Grange, we encourage our residents to keep up with their hobbies and interests, stimulating their mind, body and soul.
Elsie’s in her 90th decade and joined us here at Lancaster Grange nearly 4 years ago.
Elsie worked for many years supporting children with additional needs and had a natural tendency to care and give. This led Elsie to the idea of using one of her favourite hobbies, knitting, into something she could give back to the community.
For many weeks in our knit and natter club and when relaxing in the evenings, Elsie has been working hard to knit hats and scarves for several charities.
Elsie chose to support homeless men and women in our local community, and proudly delivered her hats and scarf to Newark and Sherwood District Council today, to be distributed at the council-run drop-in shelters.
Castle House receptionist was thrilled to receive it on behalf of the Homelessness Prevention and Rough Sleeper Strategy department, and thanked Elsie for all her hard work and dedication.
Elsie and fellow residents enjoyed a coffee, cake and a little essential shopping at Waitrose & Partners after her charity donation. Elsie now plans to carry on with her knitting. Her next delivery will be to an orphanage in Zambia (by post)!!
Christmas Nativity in Claypole Church
Yesterday afternoon, our residents here at Lancaster Grange had the pleasure of visiting St Peter’s Church in Claypole, to watch the youngest children perform their final rehearsal for their Christmas Nativity performance.
Their performance will be held at St Peter’s Church, where the parents and grandparent will watch the children.
We had a lovely time watching the children perform from Claypole Church of England Primary School, we have had such a lovely year building up our friendships together and we cant wait for 2025.
We love our intergenerational friendship and enjoyed seeing you all, whilst visiting the beautiful church in our local community village of Claypole.
Vanessa stone local artist visiting us and Michelle’s pet therapy
This week at our care home Lancaster Grange, we have joined together in different communities to recognise our shared hobbies and interests.
A wonderful morning spent in our residential community yesterday welcoming Vanessa Stone Artist for a creative morning of paper cutting.
This was an opportunity also for our residents to try something new and learn a new talent.
On our community of Thoresby we welcomed into our home a morning of sensory animal therapy with Michelle's Animal Therapy & Petting Party
A calm and meaningful morning of lap animal therapy, evoking many happy memories for our animal loving residents.
Happy times here at our care home Lancaster Grange, our residents enjoying variety and a choice of life enrichment experiences.
Visiting for the Suthers school for an Intergenerational Christmas concert
Our residents of Lancaster Grange were warmly invited over to the school next door to us for a Christmas concert and coffee morning.
The students and staff of The Suthers School put together a wonderful morning of Intergenerational music and social interaction.
Our residents were wowed with the detailed morning of music and talent that was presented to them.
The welcome and hospitality we all received was wonderful and we felt honoured and proud to be part of the morning.
Over the last year our community intergenerational friendship has greatly benefited many of our residents emotional wellbeing and we wanted to say a huge thank you from us all here at Lancaster Grange.
We look forward to meeting the new students in January.
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
