Over the last couple of years, especially, our homes have received an incredible amount of support from businesses and individuals within each of the communities they are a part of. The pandemic was a challenging time for our homes, so receiving donations, letters and gifts helped to keep people in high spirits and team members feeling supported.
One local group, The Brooklands Centre, has been very supportive of Castlemead Court Care Home in Newport Pagnell.
The Brooklands Centre is known as ‘The Jewel’ in the town by locals due to the help and support they provide to people who live in the community. Their daycare services include picking up and dropping home members of the community, hosting engaging activities with them, serving delicious meals and providing entertainment.
Although members pay a small fee for the services the Brooklands Centre provides, they rely heavily on donations to ensure that they can continue to make days exciting for the people they welcome. These donations also help the Brooklands Centre welcome professional entertainers for engaging events like Christmas parties. All of this combined really helps to combat loneliness within the community and helps to ensure that people have a life well lived.
As well as the support they provide to individuals, the Brooklands Centre also support services in their local community. They have been particularly supportive of Castlemead Court and have allowed the home to use their minibus so the team can take residents out on exciting day trips. Their support has had a huge positive impact on everyone’s wellbeing and enabled residents to visit places they may not have been able to otherwise. The team also feel the same way because they know there are people in the local community looking out for them and providing help when they need it.
Some of the people who used to visit the Brooklands Centre have moved into Castlemead Court as they have connected with the team during activities and feel at ease knowing their friends from the Brooklands Centre are only a stone’s throw away.
Due to the unwavering support the Brooklands Centre has proved to Excelcare homes in Milton Keynes, we recently donated £200 towards their Christmas raffle alongside a special item they can sell tickets for.
“The Brooklands Centre really appreciate Excelcare’s very kind donation for our Christmas raffle, this will make such a difference to what we can provide for our members.
“We will use the money raised from the Christmas raffle to purchase a Karaoke machine as all of the members love to sing and a karaoke machine would be so much fun for them,” said Sandy Payne, Volunteer and Fundraising Trustee.
We’d like to take this opportunity to thank the Brooklands Centre for their ongoing unwavering support, and for being a true jewel of the community in Newport Pagnell.