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.

Enriching life
Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Gillian Conway

Senior Activities Coordinator

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.

Life-encriching activities booklet

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

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Gardening Club

Residents have loved watching the garden take shape over the last few weeks with their plants and flowers blooming. One resident said “the flowers have brought a smile to my face every time I walk around the garden”.  Another resident has said he was fascinated “that there were three different styles of daffodils bunched together”. Our residents are looking forward to planting more beautiful flowers and watching them grow throughout this year.

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Cycling without Age

This week we had a visit from Cycling Without Age Scotland Monifieth who brought along two of their Trishaw's and volunteers from the charity chaperoning a resident and a member of staff on a ride around the local streets, this helped residents to bring back memories of their younger years.

This was a big hit with both staff and residents. We are looking forward to welcoming the volunteers and trishaws back to South Grange.

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Rose’s Retirement

Staff and residents at South Grange wished Rose a happy retirement after of 20 years’ service with Barchester.

We wish Rose all the best. She will be missed by staff and residents!

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South Grange’s street party for King Charles

Excitement was in the air as we all celebrated the highly anticipated Coronation of King Charles in style.

Our home was beautifully decorated with themed flags, banners and red, white and blue balloons, setting the stage for a grand royal street party, coronation quiz and King Charles’ favourite music.

The whole home came together, along with families and friends to celebrate our new King and talk about the new era the country is entering.

Our talented chef prepared an assortment of delicious sweet and savoury treats for all to enjoy, along with refreshments.

We all had such a brilliant time celebrating the Coronation, such a momentous occasion.

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Therapet visits have resumed at South Grange

Our residents were delighted to have one to one visits with Penny our therapet. Penny and her owner Tom are volunteers for the Therapet Service ran by Canine Concern Scotland Trust. We had a lovely morning full of kisses and cuddles from Penny!

A walk to our local garden centre

We had a wonderful time at South Grange today! We put on our warm clothes and went for a walk to our local garden centre. Our ladies love gardening and we wanted to see the beautiful flowers they had. We got some great ideas for our own garden. It was a lovely afternoon!

Upcoming events

November

The leaves are falling, November is calling and we have a fun filled month ahead.

Countdown to Christmas

Counting down the days to Christmas with a fun filled month ahead and we extend a warm welcome for you to join us - all welcome.

Merry Christmas!

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.

Community Cafe - Last Tuesday of the month

We extend a very warm welcome for our community friends to join us at our monthly Community Cafe - all welcome.