Activities at Brampton View Care Home

Mandy has always had a love of Tigers so what more could we do for her 80th Birthday than surprise her with a VIP Tiger experience at Woburn Safari Park. Mandy was able to spend the day visiting all the different animals around the park and then was accompanied by Keeper Helen for a VIP up close tiger experience where she learnt what was required to keep the big cats. Mandy was joined on her day out by Team Leader Lianne & Maintenance Assistant Steve. The trio returned absolutely exhausted after a day of fun and what Mandy called “the most wonderful day” upon return back to the home Mandy was greeted with her Tiger themed Birthday cake which she refused to cut as she loved it so much!

Today we had a visit from Lucia’s Tiny Farm. We spent time with rabbits, guinea pigs, lizards, rats and a 5 month old puppy! Both residents & staff had a fantastic time with the animals and shared stories of pets and animal experiences they have had throughout their lives. The session was a success in putting a smile on many faces and something we will be repeating on a regular basis.

Today we were visited by a company from Towcester who race Greyhounds. They provided us with a presentation about the life and care of racing greyhounds and all that’s involved in looking after them for the competitions. We had the pleasure of meeting two greyhounds, one who is currently racing and wining and one who is retiring. We had a fabulous time reminiscing about when we have been to the races and different tracks across the country and how racing has changed over time. We also had our session recorded as the greyhound racing company are having a documentary made about them, we are excited to see how it turns out.

We have been making the most of our wonderful garden space here at Brampton View. Today we enjoyed ice cream and drinks outside accompanied by our wonderful carers and head chef. We are finding nice ways to stay cool and participating in lots of storytelling about summers gone by!

Today we were treated to a Tickled Pink production of Wild Wild West. From the start it had us up and dancing! We sang our way through all the classic cowboy and western films such as seven brides for seven brothers, calamity jane and much more! It brought back many memories for us and we certainly loved getting involved with the story.

This month we trialled a new activity ‘Sing & Shake with Sophie’ the activity involved singing and movement accompanied by a professional vocal coach to test our skills for a potential community choir. We had lots of fun singing scales and seeing how long we could hold notes for. We surprised ourselves with what we were capable of! We also guess the tune and played instruments along to backing music. We ended the session with some dancing to our favourite songs. There were smiles all around and we have been practising the scales since the session!