Activities at Brampton View Care Home

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!

We had a wonderful afternoon accompanied by Carole and Peter from Zing who sang all of our favourite songs and helped us wish Doreen a very Happy Birthday. There was singing, dancing, laughter and most importantly cake. Doreen said she had a wonderful day and we were so glad to be a part of it.

To mark the start of London Fashion Week our ladies gathered to discuss their favourite fashion trends over the years and tell us about their most loved outfits throughout their lives. We discussed wedding dresses, accessories and the length of hemlines!

We also had a chance to design our own outfits that we would like to see coming down the runway this season! Who knew we had so many budding designers amongst us. Let us know what you think of our designs and if you could see yourself wearing them?

We would like to wish our Deputy Manager Elina a very Happy Early Birthday! She will be away for the actual date but we couldn’t let her get away without a cake and card from everyone here!

We hope you have the best day and enjoy your cake.