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
Book corner with Henry Slator
We had a lovely time joining Henry Slator for an exciting virtual event to discuss his book ‘Conversations at the Pond’.
Henry had an unusual writing journey, which many of our residents found inspiring, he underwent chemotherapy in early 2020, which allowed him to rediscover his light-hearted outlook on life by imagining conversations with creatures in and around his large garden pond and adding buckets of fun.
The entertaining Conversations at the Pond, with its mass of colourful illustrations, took our residents along his journey, they felt inspired, cheered and loved hearing all about Henry’s experiences.
Pamper Afternoon
Here at South Grange our nail bar has been busy with our ladies getting their nails looked after. Leah, one of our young residents from Seven Arches enjoyed her pamper afternoon.
Gardening Club
Residents spent time in the garden potting their choice of seeds. Residents shared their knowledge and gardening experience with each other to decide where to place them in the garden, when and who was going to water them and how many times per week.
Oomph live fun
Residents enjoyed joining the virtual live golden classics with Alan this week. Our lounge was full of singing and dancing all afternoon accompanied by well-deserved refreshments and homemade fresh cakes from our chef. It was agreed that residents had much better dance moves than our activities team, thankfully they were willing to teach us a few moves.
A breath of fresh air
Residents took advantage of the warmer weather and with the sun shine enjoyed a breath of fresh air and a walk in the garden before settling back for a cup of tea and a slice of homemade cake. Maureen said “it’s wonderful to be out in the garden”.
Easter hunt
Residents at South Grange enjoyed teaming up with a staff members to ‘hunt the rabbits’ which had been hidden around the home. Residents enjoyed scrambling around to find the words which the rabbits were hiding. Four lucky residents were each awarded prizes at the homes Easter awards ceremony. Everyone enjoyed hot cross buns and a delicious selection of chocolates for their efforts. Residents enjoyed everyone helping each other to complete the hunt.
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.
