Activities at Leeming Bar Grange Care Home

Leeming Bar Grange in Leeming Bar marked the Queen’s 96th birthday on April 21st in style by brewing up a storm for National Tea Day by holding a ‘Queen for a Day’ competition followed by an afternoon tea party.

The wonderfully creative residents at Leeming Bar Grange came together to create beautifully decorated crowns to compete to become the homes ‘Queen for a Day’. Residents and the team voted for the most creative crown with ‘Queen Anne with an E’ taking the crown!

Anne received the royal treatment with a glamourous make over, curtseys from all whom she passed, and was presented with her favourite treats. The fanfare played as Queen Anne with an E cordially invited her people to the royal garden party.

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Leeming Bar Grange care home have been having fantastic fun hiding Easter Eggs all over the place in Leeming Bar for local children to find.  The staff and residents decided to challenge local children to find 10 wooden Easter eggs that have been hiding in all kinds of different locations all over the village.  The children made a note of each eggs location to take part. Once all 10 eggs had been discovered the children received handmade certificates and chocolate eggs!

General Manager, Michelle Keep, said: “We’ve all had such fun first of all decorating the eggs, and then going out into the village to hide all the eggs. Our residents have had a wonderful time seeing all the lovely photos of the children finding the eggs, and hearing how the children loved looking at all the different designs”.

Leeming Bar Grange care home, in Leeming Bar has spent the week marking Holy Week  from 10th – 16th April as part of their countdown to Easter celebrations.  Staff and residents commemorated the week with a Palm Sunday virtual church service, Maundy Thursday poetry, and an abundance of creative expression throughout the week. In keeping with the spirt of Easter the home also arranged a community Easter Egg hunt for the local children.

General Manager, Michelle Keep of Leeming Bar Grange said: “Holy week is a significant period of the year for many of our residents and staff so it’s important that our life enrichment programme honours these occasions. We have had a great time marking the week with everyone getting involved in a way that is most meaningful to them.

Our residents came together to enjoy an exciting virtual talk courtesy of the team at National Trust Talks Service.  The illustrated talk took us closer to one of Cliveden’s most famous families, the Astors. Our residents were able to discover what motivated William Waldorf Astor, America’s richest man, to purchase Cliveden in 1893 and how the estate became the centre of high society in the 1920 s and 30 s thanks to his son Waldorf and daughter in law Nancy Astor.

We had a lovely time joining Holly and Marie-Therese from the Wallace Collection, for a virtual introduction to the Collection, followed by a sensory exploratory walk through one of the museum’s most famous landscape paintings.   The Collection ranges from Old Master paintings to 18th century French furniture, arms and armour.  We all had a wonderful time and cannot wait to put our creative skills to a test and paint some landscapes in the upcoming days.

Staff and residents at Leeming Bar Grange Care Home in Leeming Bar have taken part in a sponsored 10 hour danceathon to raise money for Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day on March 18th.

Staff and residents at the home donned their red noses and got stuck in to help raise funds for this very important cause. Residents and staff twirled, hopped, skipped, bounced, swayed, clapped, waltzed, boogied, shimmied, and bopped the whole day through to complete a very impressive 10 hour danceathon! Residents and staff love to express themselves through music so what better way to help others than by creating joy in the home!

Comic Relief spends the money raised by Red Nose Day to help people living tough lives across the UK and internationally. Since its launch in 1988, Red Nose Day has become a British institution when people across the country get together to raise money at their home, school and work, accompanied by an exciting night of TV on the BBC, full of comedy and entertainment to inspire the nation to give generously