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
Off to the Footy!
David one of our Seven Arches residents here at South Grange had the opportunity to go to Murrayfield in Edinburgh to see his two favourite football teams Rangers and Manchester United play each other. David supported both wearing his rangers football top and his Manchester United scarf and hat. What a wonderful day David had and said it was like a dream come true.
Head of Maintenance scoops coveted award
Sam Mclean has been crowned Health and Safety champion for the North East - North Division in the Barchester Care Awards 2024 and is through to the national round of judging.
The Barchester Care Awards celebrate the staff who go the extra mile for the benefit of the 13,000 residents living in Barchester’s 261 care homes and private hospitals across the country. Categories range from ‘Registered Nurse of the Year’ and ‘Carer of the Year’ to ‘Dementia Care Champion’ and ‘Activities Coordinator of the Year’.
Over 5,000 nominations were received from homes and hospitals across the UK. All entries were a very high standard. Sam is over the moon to have been named the winner for the North East Division beating hundreds of other nominees.
Celebrating ice-cream month
Residents celebrated ‘ice-cream month’ by hosting an afternoon of creating their own delicious ice cream sundaes. They used a variety of ingredients to make them look and taste amazing from strawberries, blueberries, millac gold whipped cream, sprinkles, chocolate/strawberry/toffee sauce and to top it off some chocolate flakes.
Everyone agreed they were delicious!
Wimbledon special
We had a fun time following the annual Wimbledon tennis tournaments. We decorated our home with themed flags and banners, and our residents took part in our mini tennis championship.
Our tennis fans were delighted to watch the famous matches virtually from the comfort of their armchairs, whist we all celebrated the event with an afternoon tea party, along with delicious strawberries, cream treats and Pimm’s.
A lovely time was had by all.
Road Trip
Heading out and about on our mini-bus is a integral part of our varied life enrichment programme and our ladies - Betty, Stella and Margaret enjoyed an afternoon out in the bus having a tour of Dundee.
They had a lovely afternoon reminiscing about the 'good old days' as this took in the sights of Scotland’s fourth largest city.
Residents attend local art club
Residents, Joyce and Thelma were delighted to be invited back to our local art club in Broughty Ferry. On this occasion, Joyce did her own freestyle painting whilst Thelma used water colours to create her own landscape painting. They were pleased with the results.
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.
