Welcome to Brampton Dementia Friendly Community

The Brampton Dementia-Friendly Activities group was formed late in 2018, by Dr Alan Barratt who had a vision to make our village more dementia friendly. Secondly, after giving so much of his time, knowledge and energy to getting us well and truly underway Alan has handed over the reins to a new chair.

As we reflect on our first five years, we have endured some testing times, making it through the COVID pandemic and enjoying some wonderful opportunities such as our Singing Together group performing at the Village Summer and Christmas fetes, and adventuring with a number of our RECONNECT social café members on the Ladybird Boat along the River Ouse. We have learned to stretch and improve our fine motor movements, to sing new songs and to play new games. We have been entertained by many and varied entertainers along the way including a ventriloquist, a ukulele band, choir groups and museum curators. We have provided respite days for many carers and we have enjoyed copious cups of tea and coffee with amazing homemade cakes, crafted and served with so much kindness, and we continue to be in awe of the amazing people who have come forward and volunteered their time to make our activities so successful and well regarded.

Going forward our goals are to maintain the success of the activities and to recruit new members and new volunteers. We have an incredible wealth of experience now running the groups and we really want to be sure that the availability of these activities is known about locally, by those who are living with or alongside dementia. We look forward to meeting both new members and new volunteers and encourage you to get in touch.