Activities at Leeming Bar Grange Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life. Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Kimberley Calvert
Hi my name is Kimberley, Senior Activities Coordinator, and here at Leeming Bar our life enrichment programme is varied, providing choice for our residents and incorporating their interests and hobbies. We all know that keeping active is important. We have created a wonderful culture within Leeming Bar, and we work together to give residents the best possible experience.
We are here to ensure that residents enjoy an environment that is both stimulating and socially active. We ensure the team knows each residents' preferences, so that we can deliver a person-centred program of events and activities. Essential to our homely feel is the strong relationships of trust we build with residents, and their families and friends.
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 Leeming Bar Grange Care Home
Residents enjoy visit from Santa & his elves
Our home got in the Christmas spirit by welcoming friends from Eastbourne Park Community Hub in Darlington, who sent Santa and his elves to the home to deliver Christmas gifts for residents.
General Manager, Katheryn Billett said: “Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year and it was so kind of Eastbourne Park Community Hub to come and see our residents. It is so lovely to see them all getting into the Christmas spirit, it’s definitely my favourite time of year.”
Liz, one of our residents said: “It has been a lovely day. It was wonderful to see everyone go to so much effort to get into the Christmas spirit. I really enjoyed seeing Santa.”
Sing and Smile
We welcomed Susan & David back into the home, also known as Sing and Smile..the most fitting of names for this wonderful duo!
Residents, loved ones, and the team couldn't help but don their dancing shoes and sing their hearts out to all the Christmas hits of the decades!
Christmas Jumper Day
Residents and staff at Leeming Bar are helping to make the world a better place by wearing a festival jumper on Thursday 15th December in aid of Save the Children’s annual fundraising event, Christmas Jumper Day.
All residents and staff have been encouraged to buy, borrow or decorate their own special Christmas jumpers and donate to Save the Children. Some of the residents have been very creative and decorated their own glitzy knitwear with tinsel, stars, baubles and snowflakes
Home celebrate National Elf Day
Staff at Leeming Bar Grange Care Home in Leeming Bar swapped their uniforms for costumes on National Elf Day in an effort to raise funds to help people living with dementia.
Launched by the Alzheimer’s Society and delivered direct from the North Pole, Elf Day was created to sprinkle some festive cheer on fundraising towards finding a cure for dementia. From stripy socks to head-to-toe elf outfits, anything goes – there’s snow better way to raise money to help beat dementia.
Visit to Ripon Cathedral's Advent Carol Service
One of our wonderful residents, Barbara, spoke about how lovely it would be to attend a carol concert in the lead up to Christmas.
So of course our life enrichment team ensured this wish would be possible with an outing to the Cathedral's Advent Carol Service & Procession.
A Christmas Carol
Across our homes we’ve had the most wonderful time celebrating the festive season with a special screening of 2020’s OLD VIC: IN CAMERA – A Christmas Carol.
This beautifully staged production brought the magic of Dickens’ classic tale right into our homes.
A huge thank you to The Old Vic theatre for sharing this incredible performance with us. It was a truly wonderful experience.
Upcoming events
Scam Prevention Talk - 22nd January
How to keep you and your loved ones safe with local PCOS, Heather Lees from 11.00 am.
Later Life Planner Seminar - 27th Jan from 2.00 pm
Organising and planning for Later Life is important & we extend an invitation for you to join Quilter Cheviot Financial Planners for an information evening.
January
Hello January! As we step into the new year we have lots of exciting things planned during January and we hope you can join us - all welcome.
Community Cafe
Join us for our monthly community cafe where we will also have some musical entertainment
Emergency Services - Take a break with us!
Calling all emergency services personnel - drop in and take a break on us. We will have hot drinks and sweet treats on offer.
Looking for a place to host a meeting?
For more information why not pop in and see what Leeming Bar Grange can offer you.
Volunteers - Could you make a difference?
We recognise the impact a Volunteer can make on the lives of our residents, do you have any spare time? For more information we'd love to hear from you.
