Activities at Newton House Care Home
Our home is always full of life, and we can thank our wonderful Activities Coordinators for this. Dedication to creating a unique and interesting activities programme is what sets us apart from other homes. We always take into consideration that some people would prefer to pursue their own interests, which is why our team strive to incorporative activities that cater to a wide range of tastes and hobbies. Our trips out are always fun and exciting as well, and residents are guaranteed to return with stories to tell their loved ones!
Newton House Activities Team
Amanda, Sabrina, Karen and Jill make up our fantastic Activities Team here at Newton House. They develop and oversee an active living programme for each resident, which encourages mobility, social contact, independence and fun. Each and every person can thrive and live to their full potential with no day ever being the same. They bring great enthusiasm and spark to Newton House and have one passion, which is to deliver an amazing and vibrant activities programme to cater to all tastes and abilities.
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 Newton House Care Home
Newton's Happy Hampers
Our brilliant team at Newton House recently orchestrated a heart warming community initiative to spread holiday cheer. around Grantham.
The care home's resident ambassador took the lead in organising the delivery of Christmas hampers to the local emergency services. including the Fire Service, Police force and Ambulance Responders.
Our Residents, staff, and our ambassador collaborated to curate thoughtful hampers filled with festive treats and essentials, expressing gratitude for the tireless efforts of the emergency service personnel.
Our emergency services were deeply touched by the homes outpouring of kindness and the embrace of the Christmas spirit.
Best Dressed Christmas Tree competition
Staff and residents at Barchester’s Maple Leaf and Newton House care home, in Grantham held a competition within the local community to award the “Best Dressed Christmas Tree”, after receiving a huge selection of incredibly dressed tree’s there could be only one winner!
Maple Leaf and Newton House care home’s residents enjoyed going through the selection of beautifully photographed trees and after much talk and deliberation over Hot Chocolate and Mince Pies, our residents chose the highly original and unique effort sent in by the children at the Springwell Academy Alternative School in Grantham.
The children and staff members from Springwell were presented with a bumper bag of Christmas treats.
General Manager’s, Kerry Angeloni and Sonia Fairhurst both agreed: “Christmas is such a magical time and our residents loved looking at all of the wonderful photos sent in from the community. It was lovely and it brought back lots of fond memories for them decorating the Christmas tree with their own family”
Dunelm Bring Christmas Joy To Newton House
Newton House would like to say a huge thank you to Dunelm and Hayley Tullo for choosing our beautiful residents to be part of their amazing delivering joy campaign again this year.
We are again absolutely blown away by the kindness, thoughtfulness & love that has been shared amongst the incredible community who have been so kind to take part in the campaign.
A heartfelt thank you to each and every one of the Grantham Dunelm team and the amazing people who have contributed to this wonderful campaign.
We were all overwhelmed with joy when the gifts were delivered this morning, and the presents are just absolutely beautiful.
A personal present for every resident living at Newton House with so much thought and love put into each and every one of them.
Mulled Wine and Mince Pies
Newton House Care Home’s, got in the Christmas spirit by hosting a festive themed community coffee morning featuring Mulled Wine and Mince Pies for our residents and guests.
Newton House’s Community events were in full swing as we welcomed residents and guests to enjoy a social fun filled morning, with mulled wine, mince pies and other festive treats.
General Manager’s, Sonya Fairhurst said: “Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year and our fantastic residents love to get festive so we’ve pulled out all the stops. It is so lovely to see them all getting into the Christmas spirit, it’s definitely our favourite time of the year.”
Christmas Market
Barchester’s Newton House Care Home, in Grantham, got in the Christmas spirit by hosting the homes annual Christmas Market. We were delighted to welcome the Mayor of Grantham, Councillor Mark Whittington who took great pride in opening the Christmas Market before taking the time to speak with the homes residents, relatives and guests.
The Newton House Christmas Market featured stalls from the Grantham community as we welcome local businesses into our home.
Residents and guests were delighted by the variety of festive treats and goodies on offer as they browsed the various stalls and wares on display.
A Trip To Lovely Loaves
A splendid trip out today, to Lovely Loaves with the brilliant Lel & Janet.
Such a fun time was had baking some delicious mince pies & Scottish shortbread, (renamed Yorkshire shortbread in honour of Janet) the ladies rolled up their sleeves and got to work creating the most delicious treats.
The session opened up so many wonderful conversations about different ways on how baking had played a happy part in our residents lives.
Vonnie spoke about baking for her loved ones, June reminisced about her Grandfather running his own bakery in London, and Janet was thrilled to bake everything from scratch and spoke about her time baking as her career.
Upcoming events
Newsletter - October
We are delighted to share our latest newsletter - October edition. We hope you enjoy reading!
Christmas Respite at Newton
Come and join us for our Christmas festivities and great food.
Young Carers Cafe
Join us with for our Young Carers Cafe, presented by 'Farrow and Friends' every third Wednesday of the month from 5pm to 6pm.
Countdown to Christmas
Counting down to Christmas with a fun filled month ahead and we extend a warm invitiation for you to join us - all welcome.
Coffee Morning
Join us on the last Friday morning of the month for our coffee morning.
Knit and Natter
Join us for our monthly Knit and Natter group on the Third Tuesday of every Month.
Respite - Are you looking for a little care break?
If you are looking for a little break pop in and see what we have to offer.
Volunteers - Could you make a difference?
We recognise the special impact volunteers have on our residents lives. If you feel you could make a difference we would love to hear from you.
Emergency services - take a break on us!!!!
We offer a warn drink any time you need one!!!