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On the 12th of May, we celebrated International Nurses Day at Harrier Grange. It was a chance for us all to say a big thank you and dedicate […]

We have been celebrating many birthdays over the past few weeks at Harrier Grange. Rosie (above) had her birthday on the 15th March, and this was to be […]

We recently had a four-legged visitor come to greet residents at Harrier Grange Care Home. Koda is a recently trained therapy dog who had his first ever working […]

Love was in the air this Valentine’s Day at Harrier Grange. Our home was beautifully decorated with red hearts and other Valentine’s Day themed decorations, which certainly brightened […]

At Harrier Grange Care Home in Andover, we are proud to announce that we have been awarded a 5-star food hygiene rating, the highest possible, after a routine […]

Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year, is the celebration of a new year according to the Chinese lunar calendar. It also symbolises the start […]

At Harrier Grange Care Home, we had a fantastic start to the year with plenty of activities, birthdays, and entertainment. Our Activities Team have done an incredible job […]

At Harrier Grange Care Home, it is our mission to enable our residents to make more of every day, and this December has been no different. Our dedicated […]

Dining and socialising with other residents is a vital part of living here at Harrier Grange Care Home. It is a time for our residents to be offered […]

In October, the residents of Harrier Grange Care Home participated in an enjoyable session of armchair exercises accompanied by feel-good music to get their bodies stimulated. It wasn’t […]

Our residents and staff members at Harrier Grange Care Home enjoyed spending the last day of August by having their very own BBQ party, prepared by our in […]

At Harrier Grange Care Home our experienced in house chef is dedicated to ensuring that all of our residents receive the very best nutritious, home-cooked meals that cater […]

Residents and staff enjoyed celebrating Guy Fawkes Night at Harrier Grange! 2020 has been a difficult year for everyone in one way or another owing to the COVID-19 […]

We were thrilled to receive a heart-warming review from a resident who recently stayed with us for 3 weeks’ respite care. They wrote on carehome.co.uk: “I never thought […]

Residents and all of the staff at Harrier Grange Care Home dug out their favourite Christmas pullovers in support of a children’s charity. Everyone at Harrier Grange Care […]

We teamed up with Co-operative Food to support MacMillan’s Worlds Biggest Coffee morning on the 26th of September! We are delighted to have been featured in the Andover […]

We held our first Christmas Fayre on Mon 26th Nov – please see below for some pics from the day. Our Care Home Manager Kay Jerrams said: “We […]

We’ve been having such a great time this past month and we wanted to show you some of our photographs from the things we’ve been doing. We’ve been […]

We teamed up with the Co-Operative last month and raised £148.20 for Macmillan Cancer Support. We hosted the staff from the Co-Op Andover distribution centre in Andover Business […]

We are delighted to introduce our new Activities Co-Ordinator at Harrier Grange, Stacie Judge, to oversee and manage our lively and varied activities programme bringing fun, action and […]

We’ve teamed up with the Co-operative Food Primary Logistics Services to raise money for Macmillian cancer charity, and we’re inviting YOU to join us for tea and (homemade) […]

One of our lovely residents, Freda Riste turned 100 recently and she says the secret to a long life is to not get stressed and ‘be appreciative of […]

The pupils from Farleigh School, a Catholic preparatory day and boarding school in Red Rice, visited our residents to enjoy all the excitement of a Summer Fun Day. […]

We’ve been feeling rather summery and flowery at our home recently! Our residents were involved in a flower arranging afternoon last week. Using a mixture of red roses, […]

We visited Mottisfont Abbey in Romsey today where we had a look around the rose flower gardens, had a spot of lunch in the stables cafe and enjoyed […]

Last week we took a trip out to Sir Harold Hillier Gardens in Romsey to have lunch and then enjoy the garden grounds. Activities Co-Ordinator, Chris Martin said: […]

Our residents got into the spirit of the Royal Wedding last weekend by having a party of our own! Our home was decorated with patriotic bunting and tableware, […]

We ventured to Finkley Down Farm this week to see the animals. Activities Co-Ordinator, Chris Martin said: “We took great pleasure in feeding the goats and sheep before […]

The Mayor of Test Valley joined in our celebrations last Saturday to mark the national open day, focused on creating community relationships. The idea behind Care Home Open […]

Our resident Charles White, an ex-professional footballer met a former Southampton FC team-mate for the first time recently – 70 years after the pair represented the same club […]

On Saturday 21st April we are celebrating National Care Home open day, which is about bringing the whole community together. We have lots of fun activities going on […]

Last Tuesday our home had some live eggs brought to us by the Living Eggs company in Reading. Activities Co-Ordinator, Chris Martin said: “We had an incubator with […]

This Thursday we were visited by the Rhythm of Life band who played some timeless classics for our residents. Our Activities Co-Ordinator, Chris Martin said: “The band consists […]

Harrier Grange Care Home are seeking to recruit Registered Nurses to join their friendly team. The purpose built care home in Andover has been finished to an exceptionally […]

Our residents enjoyed having Zoo Lab visit our residents recently, bringing along some incredible creatures. Activities Co-Ordinator Chris Martin, said: “The African land snail was very popular amongst […]

The Mayor of Test Valley was on hand to cut our cake at our first birthday celebrations recently. We are proud to have welcomed more than 50 residents […]

Our home had the delight of having the Wallop Military Wives Choir in to sing to our residents recently. Our Activities Co-Ordinator, Chris Martin said: “The residents were […]

We are delighted to have achieved a fantastic rating on the distinguished, leading UK Care Home review website – www.carehome.co.uk We achieved a fantastic 9.9 rating due to […]

Our residents, Kath and Charles, enjoyed visiting the Museum of Army Flying in Middle Wallop this week. We were able to see the impressive aviation engineering from the […]

We do love a wedding anniversary here at Harrier Grange, our Joan and Richard are celebrating their 70th this year, with Richard’s philosophy to a long and happy […]

Alan Poulton the Pianist visited our home and played some festive songs for our residents. Activities Co-Ordinator, Chris Martin said: “Alan played the old classic Christmas songs we […]

Our residents have been getting into the festive spirit! Activities Co-Ordinator, Chris Martin said: “We’ve had lots of fun decorating the home with two trees – 6ft and […]

The wonderful Tickled Pink visited our home to perform to us a Christmas Spectacular which involved lots of singing and tap dancing! Activities Co-Ordinator, Chris Martin said: “Our […]

Our own Tony Greening, 87, had the absolute pleasure of being reunited with his sister, Joan, for the first time in over a year recently. Our Activities Co-Ordinator, […]

Our home hosted a wonderful guest last week, Balloon Artist Chris Kimbers. Chris created many weird and wonderful models such as: dogs; aliens; unicorns; flowers; babies; octopuses… you […]

Ladies lunches are a great way for us to explore new places and get to know each other a bit better…. any excuse for some tasty lunches! On […]

We recently enjoyed a trip to the Rosebourne Garden Centre, read all about it here! Winter is coming so we wrapped up cosy and headed off to the […]

We recently invited children from a local nursery to spend time with residents to help improve their overall health and happiness after being inspired by a hit TV […]

Our residents got into the Halloween Spirit carving pumpkins and painting clay ones! Other residents decorated Halloween biscuits in the shape of ghosts, bats and pumpkins which they […]

We are recruiting for a Home Admissions Advisor Day Care Practitioners, Day Carers, Night Carers, Host/Hostess and a Laundry Person at Harrier Grange. Please click on our ‘Careers’ […]

Our residents were treated to wonderful accordion playing this week. Robin Geard, who has over 30 years of experience playing the accordion in care homes, visited our home […]

Our residents and Activities Co-Ordinator, Chris, played a variety of games in the lounge last week: velcro darts; slipper football; and armchair skittles. Residents Pam, Kath, Freda, Joan […]

Last Thursday our residents – Kathleen, Pam, John Gibbons and John Keeling – visited Hougton Lodge Tea Rooms, where they enjoyed tea and sandwiches in the conservatory. The […]

Our residents had a great visit from Valley Leisure to run a seated stength and balance class. The purpose of the class is to promote physical wellbeing by […]

Our residents were able to test out the lastest Zumba Gold craze last week… Lynn Redman from Valley Leisure, a charity based in West Street, Andover, led the […]

Our residents had a great Tai-Chi session with the Mayor of Test Valley – Cllr Carl Borg-Neal, last week. Leigh Eastman from Eden Therapy, based in Upper Clatford, […]

Our Activities Co-Ordinator, Chris Martin, decided to get the residents hands messy moulding Play-Doh on Monday morning! They made shapes with cookie cutters, Pam and Chris kept it […]

We had perfect weather at our Andover home yesterday – a shining sun and bright, cloudless blue skies! We decided to make the most of the delightful weather […]

We had Valley Leisure in to visit our home on Monday and they instructed a Zumba Gold class, which involves dancing to music in an armchair, with our […]

Reminiscence based activities have been popular in our home recently, in particular a board game named Call to Mind. The rules are simple, spin the arrow on the […]

What’s the secret to a long-lasting marriage you ask? Our Tony, 86, and Carol, 84, have revealed the secret to a long marriage is always supporting each other, […]

Our residents travelled to Romsey last week to visit the Historical Mottisfont Grounds. The residents were treated to some toasties and ice cream before they had a look […]

Residents Pam, Gloria and Chris, our Activities Co-Ordinator, had a lovely outing to the Rosebourne Garden Centre to enjoy some afternoon tea. Walking around the centre certainly worked […]

Our residents were in massage heaven on Tuesday! Yvonne from Hands on Massage came to our home to pamper our residents, massaging their arms, hands, legs and feet […]

We are all about keeping active here at Harrier Grange – our most popular activity at the moment being Catch & Throw! The retro 50’s music comes on and […]

We had a wonderful visit from some of the children from Farleigh School! The school children brought in iPads to show our residents their e-portfolios which had all […]

We took a trip to Sir Harold Hillier Gardens last Thursday where we explored the grounds and had a bite to eat in the cafe. There was a […]

Our residents were practising their armchair skittles skills yesterday in our home! Our Tony even managed to get a strike! Are there any other care homes out there […]

Last Friday, our residents had a wonderful trip to the local pub! Chris, our Activities Co-Ordinator, brought along a portable speaker and played some 50’s music for our […]

Our residents enjoyed competing against each other last Friday to be the champion of the bean bag toss! Some drinks, 50’s music and friendly competition were had by […]

Our residents enjoyed a wonderfully creative trip to the Pottery Café – Splash of Colour – in Salisbury last week! We came home with a plethora of wonderfully […]

We hosted our 1950s style afternoon event of entertainment and refreshments as part of the suggested theme in 2017 for National Care Home Open Day, which was ‘friendship’. […]

Photographs from our wonderful open day – more details to follow.

We are hosting open days at Harrier Grange 10am – 4pm on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of June. You are cordially invited to our Open Day events […]

We took a trip to Longstock Garden Centre with some of our residents. During our trip we had a lovely walk and look around the gardens, the greenhouse […]

We are delighted to introduce you to our Activities Co-Ordinatior here at Harrier Grange, Chris Martin. Prior to being a team member at Harrier Grange, Chris worked in […]

Our residents and staff had a fantastic day out yesterday to the farm, which was only a short 10-minute drive away from our home! We started the day […]

Last week our home took part in Red Lippy Day. Whilst we all had fun (and looked good) posing with our red lips, we know it was for […]

We are extending an invitation to all healthcare professionals to come along to our home, meet our team of care experts and be taken on a tour of […]

Harrier Grange Residents recently enjoyed a day trip to the Hawk Conservancy Trust. As part of our varied activities and events programme, we arrange day trips on a […]