Activities at Hampton Grove Care Home
Our home is always full of life, and we can thank our wonderful Activities Coordinators for this. Dedication to creating a unique and interesting activities programme is what sets us apart from other homes. We always take into consideration that some people would prefer to pursue their own interests, which is why our team strive to incorporative activities that cater to a wide range of tastes and hobbies. Our trips out are always fun and exciting as well, and residents are guaranteed to return with stories to tell their loved ones!
Lisa May
I started working for Barchester in October 2020. The team here at Hampton Grove have made me feel welcome. No day is ever the same here.
My varied daily activities and events help to create a stimulating engagement programme to enhance the quality of life for each resident within the home.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Hampton Grove Care Home
Fun in the Sun!
Hampton Grove enjoyed a lovely picnic and ice creams at Rutland Water today, taking in the lovely views and enjoying the sunniest of days.
Keeping Cool with Choc-Ices
Todays weather has been so wonderful, many of our residents decided to sun themselves in the Hampton Grove gardens. With factor 50+ on, and plenty of cooling fluids they were treated to cooling choc-ices courtesy of the activities team to top a super sunny day.
Gardening Togetherness
What a beautiful day to be doing some gardening, de-weeding the garden watering the flowers making it look nice again.
Dining Out
Lunch at the Mulberry Tree Farm #FarmhouseInnsUK
Some of our residents from Hampton Grove enjoyed their lunch out today with Friday fish and chips and steak pies with a cheeky glass of wine to wash it down.
Celebrating Carers Week
This week at Hampton Grove we are celebrating carers week, with our amazing team.
The homes manager Krzysztof presented them with a Thank You card from Barchester, and a personalised handmade card from some of our residents, both of which carried messages of thanks for all their hard work and dedicated.
Krzysztof had them all laughing with team building balloon games as the homes hospitality team laid on a super spread of party food, with cakes and other sweet treats for the whole team to enjoy.
Moment In Time Captured Forever
At Barchester, we have been supporting families with pioneering dementia care in specially-designed, dementia-friendly Memory Lane communities since 1992. We strongly believe people living with dementia should enjoy a fulfilled and happy life, with specialist support to continue doing the things they love every day.
Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning – thinking, remembering, reasoning – which can affect a person’s day to day life and activities. Functions that can be impacted are memory, language skills, visual perception, problem solving, self-management and the ability to focus and pay attention. The number of people living with dementia in the UK is forecast to increase to over 1m.
We love new ideas, and unique ways of capturing memories. When the team at Hampton Grove care home in Peterborough heard that one of our residents’ loved ones; Debbie Cove, the daughter of Susan wanted to capture a precious ‘moment in time’ we wanted to do all we could to support her.
Debbie’s mum; Susan was diagnosed with Dementia and Alzheimer’s a couple of years back, at the time Susan was in an assisted living home, Debbie, at the end of last year 2021, purchased a plaster casting kit, but unfortunately before Debbie could make the mould, Susan had an accident which left her unable to do all the little things in life she loved, such as care for her beloved King Charles Cavalier; Crufts registered ‘Arthur’ and the daily crossword.
Now living the next chapter of her life at Hampton Grove care home in Peterborough, Debbie felt it would be a perfect time to create a special memory to hold on to forever.
As Debbie says; “Dementia and Alzheimer’s are such a cruel illness, I’ve already gone through it with my Granddad 20 years ago and, since Mum got diagnosed, I’ve just wanted to make as many memories as possible with her and will continue to do so! This plaster cast of our hands entwined is a moment in time we can both enjoy now, and forever. Something for her, me and her two great grandchildren; Mabel and Sage who she’s never met, as they live in Australia.”
General Manager, Krzysztof Krzysztofiak, said: “Dementia affects many of our residents and seeing the final cast of Susan and Debbie’s hands held together has touched some many of us, it’s a beautiful everlasting memory of their love and unity. I’ve no doubt other’s will do the same, I can see these casts being used by generations of all ages and couples. It’s a wonderful way to ‘stay together forever’.
We are proud to provide an environment that helps residents, and their loved ones continue to enjoy life enriching moments, we understand that, although they live apart, their time together is so precious. We love being part of their extended family and having the honour to provide the additional care and security when needed.
