Activities at South Grange Care Home
Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
Gillian Conway
Gill has worked for South Grange since 1996. Gill's role in the home is ensuring our residents enjoy a fulfilling quality of life. The programme that Gill and her colleagues provide is stimulating, creative and varied.
Gill enjoys the time she spends with residents and families. The team welcomes any suggestions made by residents and family members in relation to activities.
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 South Grange Care Home
Couple celebrate 70th wedding anniversary
South Grange resident Beth and her husband David celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. Beth met her husband David when he moved to her home town of Inverness for 6 months for his work. They had a lovely white wedding in the Methodist Church followed by their reception at one of the local hotels on the 3rd of April 1954. David’s family and friends travelled to the wedding by bus from Aberdeen, where David lived.
In 1967 David was promoted while working for the GPO and the happy couple moved to Dundee. They have 1 daughter, Linda who all lived happily in the family home that David still lives in. Linda went on to have 2 sons, Mark and Scott whom the couple are very proud of. Beth says the reason their marriage has lasted 70 years is because David is such a gentlemen.
Visiting our friends at Fordmill
What a lovely afternoon we had being welcomed by staff and residents at one of our sister homes, Fordmill in Montrose. The home has been recently decorated and this trip allowed our residents to have a good glimpse of the interior.
We joined in with their arts and crafts club where we helped make cards in preparation for their virtual trip to Amsterdam. These cards included us colouring in spring tulips and having a sing song to ‘Tulips of Amsterdam’.
It was really nice to meet their residents whilst we chatted and got to know each other over a cuppa and of course delicious cake. We can’t wait to see them all again soon
Come sing!
Residents across our homes and hospitals had a fantastic time with vocal coach Dan Cooper from Biiah as he led an amazing sing-a-long session for residents to enjoy.
Residents who joined the event were able to learn different techniques as they sang the famous ‘I Can See Clearly Now’ by Jimmy Cliff and ‘Here Comes the Sun’ by The Beatles.
Across our homes there were smiles and laugher all around. The session was such a success and was great for the mind, body and soul.
Residents enjoy trip to local coffee shop
Staff and residents took a trip out to visit their local coffee shop, Bowman’s. Residents and staff had a lovely afternoon out to visit Bowman’s Coffee House which is located on Monifieth High Street. The ladies were surprised to see that their families had even joined them there too. Everyone enjoyed a refreshing hot drink and a delicious home-made cake which everyone all agreed was delicious!
General Manager, Catherine Lappin said: “We absolutely love being able to take our residents out and about to visit local shops like Bowman’s, it makes us so happy to be able to access venues like this. The ladies had a fantastic afternoon and thoroughly themselves.”
We have our own horses in the Grand National
The secret is out, our unexpected delivery was 4 horses to compete in our Grange National.
We have named our horses number 2 Bob the Builder, 10 Pink lady, 21 The Steamies 28 Nightingale.
We are holding our very own Grand National on Friday 12th April. Our ladies and gentlemen will be dressed in their Sunday best and treated to drinks and nibbles whilst being able to have a flutter on their favourite horse.
Harrogate Chocolate 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.
Upcoming events
May
The month of May is the gateway to Summer and we have lots of fun things planned!
Volunteers - Could you make a difference?
There are endless ways to get involved and we'd love to hear from you!
Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
Calling all heros! Come and take a break with us and enjoy a warm drink and a slice of homemade cake.
