Activities at Brampton View Care Home

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Brampton View Care Home in Northampton have hosted another of their fabulous monthly Pudding Clubs. The idea behind the club is for everyone to come along for a cup of tea and a catch up while trying out different types of puddings – what a truly excellent idea! 

Residents and staff came up with the idea to launch the Pudding Club, each month they get together to talk about their favourite puddings, past and present, and decide what they are going to serve that month.  The home’s hospitality team helps the residents to prepare the puddings, both old-fashioned and new recipes, so everyone gets to try a range of different puds.  Family members, friends and members of the community are all invited to attend and bring puddings to share too, if they wish.

In June the Pudding Club met for the fourth time and Brampton View were delighted to experience a new type of cake – a cake pop! A cake pop is a layer of sponge rolled into a ball and baked with a lollipop stick in the bottom. Residents were then given the chance to decorate their own pop with chocolate and sprinkles before taste testing their work.  

General Manager, Mo Masedi, comments: “The Pudding Club is proving to be a huge success, our residents absolutely love it.  We are so lucky to have our hospitality team on board with this wonderful activity and have them involved in the process.  The club is going from strength to strength, we’re very much looking forward to the next session in July – everyone is welcome to join us, please check out our Facebook page for details.”

Dancing and singalongs were the order of the day at Brampton View Care Home in Northampton where residents were keen to get involved in World Music Day on June 21st.

La Fete de la Musique was first celebrated in France in 1982 when amateur and professional musicians performed on the streets of Paris.  Other countries adopted the same date to celebrate all different types of live music and the European Festival of Music soon became World Music Day as countries around the globe got on board.

Staff and residents at Brampton View care home decided hold an afternoon of live singing and dancing with local entertainer Steve O. The afternoon was full of everyone’s favourite music and plenty of joyful singing and dancing.

Emma Robinson the Activities Lead at Brampton View Care Home commented: “Our residents love to dance, sing and listen to music, so World Music Day is a fantastic excuse for us to play our favourite songs, let our hair down and have a bit of a boogie. Live entertainment is always great throughout the home as it brings such joy to all.”

Mo Masedi, General Manager at the home, said: “Our residents have had a great day enjoying all different kinds of music.  We have all been testing our music knowledge with our quiz which was so much fun, and then listening to our favourite songs and pieces of music – we have had all genres today from opera to hiphop, something for everyone!” 

You better beer-lieve that residents at Brampton View Care Home in Northampton, were more than hoppy to raise a glass, and sample some top craft ales, bitters and lagers, in celebration of National Beer Day on June 15th.

The hospitality team at Brampton View Care Home set up a bar for a real pub experience and brought in a range of brew-tiful British ales for residents to sample.  Residents and their visitors enjoyed a beer tasting and learning about the history of beer whilst they sampled the different craft ales, bitters and lagers.
 

Mo Masedi, General Manager at the home, said: “We love socialising and celebrating all kinds of events, it is wonderful to be able to invite family and friends into our garden to join in fun activities like this. National Beer Day is a day that the residents really enjoy, who doesn’t love a cold beer on a warm summer’s day!”

This week saw the beginning of our series of Financial Advice Clinics! 

Michael Osborne from Borneo Martell Turner Coulston visited us to provide information and answer questions on Lasting Power of Attorney.

The session was very beneficial to all who attended and everyone who Michael spoke to during his time with us.

Next Thursday Michael will be returning to provide information on wills. This event is open to all so please pop along if you have questions.

A big thank you to The Deep for our virtual tour of their fantastic aquarium in Hull.

We had a tour of the Endless Ocean exhibit narrated by Kirsty one of the aquariums tour guides.

Our residents found the experience extremely informative and very relaxing watching all the fish swim past! We even had a smile from a sting ray!

This week our visit from Kingsthorpe Grove Primary took a bit of a musical turn!

The children brought their new disco glow sticks with them and we each took it in turns to share music with each other. From nursery rhymes with the children to reminiscing songs for D Day 80th anniversary.