Activities & Amenities

Honoring your independent lifestyle and love of variety

Givens Aldersgate residents love all that Charlotte and the Carolinas offer, from shopping to dining to cultural events. Music, art, lectures, theater, sporting events—if there’s interest, there’s an excursion in the works! We honor your independent lifestyle of planning your day around the things you enjoy.

Discover Life at Givens Aldersgate

Your Kind of Social

Givens Aldersgate is a social, friendly community with interesting and active residents who continually shape the activities we offer. Simply put, this is your community. What do you want to do today?

  • Weekly movie nights
  • Summer Concert Series
  • Cooking with the Chef classes
  • Mahjong, dominoes, bridge, Scrabble and chess groups
  • Lawn bocce, croquet and golf
  • Shopping trips

Explore Your Creative Self

Whether continuing to perfect a hobby or exploring something new, we offer you a rich environment to become your most creative self.

  • Ceramics and pottery
  • Basket weaving
  • Knitting and needlework groups
  • Shamrock Singers
  • Painting and photography
  • Wood shop
  • Resident theatre group
  • Gardening
  • Author visits
  • Pop-up craft sessions
  • Resident-led photography

Lifelong Learning

Keep up with technology—and the community around us. Learn about our local heritage or adopt a new skill.

  • Computer and other tech classes
  • Book clubs
  • Gardening plots
  • Lectures from university professors
  • Charlotte Museum of History

Spiritual Support

Givens Aldersgate is a spiritual community that features its own worship spaces and study groups. We are welcoming of all faith traditions and denominations.

  • Weekly resident-led Centering Prayer
  • Givens Aldersgate Bible Study
  • Three ecumenical worship services each Sunday (Independent Living, Skilled Nursing and Memory Care) as well as inter-faith services
  • Bi-weekly Memory Care sing-alongs
  • Wellness groups for holistic support including grief care, faith-based healing support, trauma-informed spiritual care, and interdisciplinary spiritual/clinical care
  • Resident support during hospitalization, rehabilitation, decline, or end-of-life care
  • Memorial and celebration of life services

Wellzesta Community App

Upon entrance, every independent living resident receives access to Wellzesta, a private community app that keeps residents up-to-date on events and dining and allows them to stay connected. Residents can:

  • Chat and make new friends
  • Start social groups
  • Request help with repairs
  • See what dishes are on the menu today
  • See and RSVP to events, classes and activities

Life Enrichment Manager

Ashlan Lannon