Activities at Brampton View Care Home

We absolutely adore our young visitors from Kingsthorpe Grove Primary School! The children and teaching staff visit us each week and we spend time together taking part in various activities and games.

Yesterday we sang some traditional nursery rhymes and created spring flowers. On their last visit the children also spoke to the kitchen team about what kind of treats we could offer them during their visits and we certainly delivered this week. After all the hard work put into the crafts the kitchen team delivered the children’s request of mini cupcakes with fresh whipped cream and sprinkles!!! There was lots of excitement followed by complete silence as we all tucked into our cakes.

Yesterday we surprised Sheila during lunch with a home made cake and all staff and residents singing happy birthday! She said it was wonderful and she was very thankful. We are happy to be able to make her day that little extra special!

Our pub themed day was a huge success today! Residents enjoyed a tipple of their choice and shared memories of their favourite drinks through the years. Particularly enjoying a gin in the 60s on a Saturday night and memories of trying their first drinks.

We spent time debating current events and sharing lots of laughter just as you would in the pub and finished the day off with some games of table football, air hockey and pool!

Both staff and residents commented that it was a great day and they can’t wait for the next one.

Brampton View care home in Chapel Brampton, Northampton recently presented Favell Day Services (FDS) with a cheque for £636.00 towards the members Christmas meal and activities.

FDS offer a day care service to physically disabled adults over 18 years of age and have been operating since 2013. The organisation is a self-help support group, run by the members and supported by dedicated professional caring staff. The service is provided several times per week at two locations in Northampton and consists of a range of activities and complimentary refreshments.

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 visited the FDS group at the St Luke’s Centre in Duston where the group meet every Monday and Wednesday to present the cheque.

Service Manager; Kate said “The Barchester Foundation’s donation helped towards making our Christmas Day even more special for each of the attending members. It helped us buy additional gifts and serve up a bountiful Christmas dinner!”

Group member and Trustee at FDS; Nick Flynn took time to chat with the Brampton View representatives, updating them both on the group and service provision.  Motshodiemang, said: “We are always keen to show as much support as we can to local charities. Being able to brighten the lives of these amazing people at Christmas time was such an honour, we very much hope this is just the start of an ongoing friendship.”

Motshodiemang welcomed the group to join the residents of Brampton View at any of the regular weekly activities and the larger community events held at the home throughout the year.

Yesterday we had a very competitive afternoon of bingo with all of our fellow Barchester homes up and down the country!

We played online against each other and completed for lines and full houses. Our Brampton team played well but unfortunately were beaten by other homes to the full house first but we had a great time and we look forward to the next event.

This week we had the pleasure of meeting Deborah from Restore Northampton who came to collect all of the items our wonderful relatives and community have donated for them. We had the chance to show Deborah around our home and learn more about what Restore Northampton do for the local area. We are happy to be able to help support local families in need and look forward to partnering with them for more projects this year.

The collection box by the front door is now empty so if you can please donate any toiletries, tinned goods and cupboard items. A small donation goes further than you think!