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
Gingerbread House Day
We love any excuse to get creative so when we found out it was Gingerbread House Day on December 12, we didn’t need any persuading to get cracking.
Our talented chef prepared a big batch of gingerbread for our residents, who then got busy decorating with icing, buttercream, marshmallows, dolly mixture, candy canes and edible glitter to make some of the glitziest gingerbread houses in town.
The gingerbread houses look really lovely and they are indeed delicious - what a fun way to spend the afternoon.
National Jumper Day
South Grange had a lovely afternoon as residents and staff put on a fine display with their festive jumpers and t-shirts as part of Save the Children, National Jumper Day. There was a colourful display!
Resident, Pat was chosen by General Manager, Fiona Torrie to receive 1st prize for being the most festive resident and in return Pat chose Christine, Hospitality to win for the homes staff team.
Creative workshop
We all had a wonderful time joining Jennifer Owen - founder of Goldfinch Floral Studio for a creative floral bauble workshop.
Jennifer transported our residents to the out of the ordinary world of flowers and crafts and demonstrated how to create stunning hand-made baubles filled with dried flowers and grasses.
Our residents enjoyed filling and decorating their own glass baubles and their unique creations will be displayed at the home for everyone to enjoy.
Blenheim Christmas lights
We experienced the Christmas extravaganza of Blenheim Palace with Social Historian - Antonia Keaney, who took us on a recorded tour around the Christmas sights at the palace this year.
Elf Day
Residents spent the morning looking for our little elves around their home followed by finding our human elves to collect their prize. Residents enjoyed decorating ginger bread cookies followed by Elf the movie in the afternoon.
St Andrews Day
Today we celebrated the national day of Scotland and their patron Saint Andrew.
We marked the day with a celebrations of the Scottish culture – with traditional Scottish dances, music, food and drinks.
Our residents also learnt interesting facts about St Andrew, who surprisingly was not Scottish.
We hosted a quiz afternoon with 35 questions about Scotland and watched some highland dancing virtually.
It was a lovely day, enjoyed by all.
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.
