Activities at Brampton View Care Home

Today we hosted a cake sale and pyjama day for Comic Relief! Both residents and staff tucked into delicious cupcakes made and decorated within the home and had a good giggle at staff in their pyjamas. We have had a wonderful day filled with laughter and raising some vital money for Comic Relief.

We recently had the pleasure of presenting Lucy Knight from BareFooted Arts with a cheque for £2500.00 towards the innovative ‘Movement, Music and Reminiscence’ project ‘Nature Nostalgia’ at Delapré Abbey

Nature Nostalgia, is a cross arts & nature project, designed to engage underserved older individuals in outdoor creative activities that encourage and capture reminiscence of childhood experiences of nature play, in partnership with Delapré Abbey, Royal & Derngate Northampton and Age UK Northamptonshire.

The project will bring together a group of 25 participants 60yrs+ who have been identified by Age UK and their social prescribing strand, as being lonely or socially isolated, to participate in a weekly nature-based cross arts activity for 13-weeks in a beautiful outside space at Delapré Abbey. Participants will also be drawn in from 2 local History societies, as well as promoted via Royal & Derngate and Delapré Abbey’s networks.

Aiming to create an immersive and therapeutic experience for older individuals by combining movement, music and nature to uncover memories and reminisce about childhood experiences. It will promote physical activity, mental well-being and foster a sense of nostalgia and connection with nature and each other, enhancing quality of life and stimulating meaningful conversations among peers.

The grant had been awarded by Barchester’s Charitable Foundation, a charity that helps older people and adults with a disability or mental health problems across England, Scotland and Wales by offering grants to help people connect or re-connect with others in their local community.

Motshodiemang Masedi, General Manager at Brampton View care home and Activities Coordinator; Emma Robinson met with BareFooted Director, Lucy to find more about this this innovative older peoples’ social project and see how the residents and staff at Brampton View care home can offer further local support.

Lucy said “The Barchester Foundation’s donation has been a wonderful boost to the launch of this project. Getting out in nature is vital for older people, we’re very excited to see how ‘Nature Nostalgia’ benefits the overall quality of life and well-being of its participants.” Bookings are now open for the FREE 13 week activity starting in April. Places are limited to find out more please contact lucy@barefooted.co.uk

‘Thirsty Thursday’ Mocktail making. Today as part of nutrition and hydration week our residents got the chance to make their very own mock tails. They chose from a variety of fruit juices and flavoured drinks to make a drink for themselves and others to sample.

They discussed names for drinks and thought carefully about how they would market their creations. Cocktail umbrellas, fancy straws and glasses were all considered. Some of the creations were extremely popular and we are looking forward to enjoying this activity again!

We have also been busy decorating cakes to sell at our cake sale tomorrow for comic relief, some are also Easter themed!! We look forward to seeing you in your best pyjamas for tea and cake to raise money for comic relief.

Our monthly residents meeting turned into our ‘talking tea party’ as part of nutrition and hydration week. Once a month residents gather in the lounge to discuss life at Brampton View and have their say about any compliments, concerns or suggestions they have. The heads of departments join them and we thoroughly enjoy chatting about our home.

However this month we surprised the residents at the meeting by turning it into a tea party as part of nutrition and hydration week, we had a special emphasis on food during the meeting and Head Chef Glenn spoke about menu changes coming up and what the residents wanted for their spring menu. Different snack suggestions for throughout the day were discussed and themed events.

The kitchen team put on another wonderful display of treats with special purée cakes and sandwiches to cater for all individuals in attendance.

A very busy Tuesday for us at Brampton View. We began the day with our ‘brilliant breakfast’ to mark nutrition and hydration week. The kitchen team prepared a breakfast buffet station containing all you could ever want for to start the day right. Residents tucked into fresh fruit, cooked bacon and sausages alongside cereals and eggs to order!

Head Chef Glenn spent time visiting residents to ask about their food preferences and what else they might like to see on the menu! To round off the day we have enjoyed ‘super supper snacks’ of cheese and biscuits, sausage rolls, cake and plenty more.

Tomorrow sees a new addition to our monthly residents meeting with a ‘talking tea party’ we are looking forward to seeing what delights our fabulous kitchen team will produce.

To mark the beginning of nutrition and hydration week we hosted a ‘simply smoothie’ event! Our fabulous kitchen team put together a variety of smoothies for us to sample and give our feedback. The smoothies included strawberries and ice cream and mango and peaches.

We sampled each one and chose our favourites which will now become a feature around the home more often. The smoothies made us think of warmer days sitting in the garden with a cold smoothie and fresh fruit, we are looking forward to this becoming a reality.

Smoothies are a great way to stay hydrated and also get some of those all important vitamins into us. Tomorrow we are hosting a ‘brilliant breakfast’ to continue our nutrition and hydration week.