Activities at Leeming Bar Grange Care Home
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.
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 Leeming Bar Grange Care Home
Inside the Factory
We had a brilliant time across our services with Harrogate Skills 4 Living as they took us on a wonderful virtual visit to their Harrogate Chocolate Factory.
Residents were thrilled to discover details about the chocolate-making process and the fascinating journey from bean to bar, all while enjoying some delicious sweet treats.
The Factory aims to employ people with learning disabilities and autism, involving them in all parts of the process, from sorting and roasting the beans to packaging and sales. The experience was truly enjoyed by all who joined this event.
Beat the Clock
We continue to celebrate a varied life enrichment programme and across our services we linked up with other Barchester care homes and hospitals up and down the country for some interactive Beat the Clock games.
Our residents truly enjoyed solving word puzzles, conundrums and mathematical problems as part of Barchester’s very own game show series.
Everyone who joined had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.
Happy St Patrick's Day
Today has been a day filled with shamrock shenanigans as we celebrated St Patrick's Day!
Residents had great craic as they began the celebrations with a themed quiz to test their St Paddy's knowledge. Did you know St Patrick's patronages include protection against snakes?
After feeding our brains we built up quite the thirst so we of course had to have a few cheeky pints of the black nectar, and Irish Creams; which may or may not have fulled some enthusiastic jigging!
Birthday celebrations
Today we are privileged enough to celebrate lovely Ann's birthday with her!
Ann enjoyed a day of celebrations including singing, dancing, crafting, lots of treats including a delicious birthday cake made with love by Chef Karen, and a twerking llama believe it or not...
Here's to celebrating you amazing Ann! We can't wait to enjoy many more laughs, smiles, and meaningful moments with you!
Tuesday Togetherness
Today residents enjoyed another fabulous outing to Bedale Benefice of Churches Tuesday Togetherness coffee morning
As always the morning was filled with smiles galore as residents enjoyed the relaxed environment, along with a visit to St Gregory's next door to appreciate the stunning architecture, stained glass windows, and rich history this wonderful church holds
Joys of Spring!
To celebrate the first day of Spring & International Day of Happiness our 'Joys of Spring' Community Kindness Group created goodie bags to gift to some of the most hardworking members of our community
On behalf of the home our resident ambassadors and activities team took a jaunt out on the homes mini bus to The Friarage Hospital to deliver these gifts to Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust to show our utmost gratitude to the team and create smiles!
Throughout the season, our Joys of Spring group will be popping up throughout the community. Should you wish to nominate a person, business, or organisation who brings joy to our community to receive a special thank you please just comment below or email leemingbar.activities@barchester.com
Upcoming events
Will Writing Seminar
We are delighted to be welcoming 'House of Wills' to Leeming Bar Grange to answer any questions and talk about the importance of having a Will in place.
Open Day at Leeming Bar Grange
We are delighted to be hosting an Open Day at Leeming Bar. Come along and meet the team and enjoy a tour of our wonderful home.
November Whats on!
Come and join in for our November Events and Activities. Everyone welcome.
Newsletter - Autumn edition
We hope you enjoy reading our latest newsletter, settle back with a cup of tea and enjoy reading!
Christmas Respite
Come and join in the festivities at Leeming Bar Grange. Lots of festive fun and food. Everyone welcome
Reminiscence Cafe
Come and join us for a cuppa and a chat. A great way to meet members of the local community. Everyone welcome.
Countdown to Christmas
Counting down the days to Christmas with a fun filled month ahead and we extend a warm invitation for you to join us - all welcome.
Merry Christmas!
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.
