Activities at Brampton View Care Home

We are beginning to feel festive here at Brampton View and have started with our first selection of Christmas cards. The residents choose their designs and spent time carefully crafting how they wanted their cards to look and who they wanted to send them too. A couple have remained here in the home on display. There will be many more to come in the next few weeks.

A fabulous afternoon with Ukes Aloud, a ukulele group from Northampton who raise money for charity. We spent time singing and dancing along with them and learning more about the instrument itself. The session was a good mood booster and everyone left with a big smile on their face and even some happy tears! We can’t wait for their next visit and we might even give it a try ourselves.

This week we enjoyed celebrating the kings birthday. Staff and residents had an afternoon of traditional scones baked by Head Chef Glenn and made crowns to become king and queens of Brampton View for the afternoon. Residents chose their favourite classical music to accompany the event. One resident remarked that whilst she enjoyed being queen for an afternoon she wouldn’t want the job full time as it seems like hard work!

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.”

This weekend we have commentated Remembrance Day here at Brampton View. We have created displays and sang along to songs with Fiona. We honoured the silence and shared our memories along with raising money for the Royal British Legion via their Poppy Appeal. We understand the importance of keeping the memories alive.”

Staff and residents at Brampton View Care Home in Northampton celebrated Bonfire Night with a bang this November 4th when they wrapped up warm to gather in the garden to watch a fantastic firework display and enjoy lots of seasonal treats. The residents enjoyed traditional bonfire night treats, including jacket potatoes, hot dogs, treacle toffee cakes beautifully prepared by the head chef Glenn Coombs.

Brampton View care home in Northampton recently presented Doddridge Community Centre with a cheque for £500 to be put towards the cost of transport to enable members to attend this centre to improve their lives.  Doddridge Community Centre provides a wide range of facilities and support to the local community and voluntary groups and enterprises.  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.