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In support of the Dementia Care Partnership’s Bradbury Centre, The Alnwick Garden planted 21 trees to create an orchard at the centre. The trees, which have been donated by The Garden, are new varieties of apple tree and will bring a grassy landscape to life. This area will be called the Alnwick Orchard.
The planting was led by The Alnwick Garden’s head gardener Derek Horton with other members of The Garden’s gardening team. Mr Horton said: “We are delighted to be able to support the Dementia Care Partnership by creating a beautiful orchard area to be experienced by those that use the Bradbury Centre. We hope this will encourage people to enjoy and appreciate the outdoors and their local environment, and feel pleasure as they watch the trees through the seasons”.
Rani Svanberg, Chief Executive, DCP, said: “We are grateful to the Duchess of Northumberland for The Alnwick Garden’s generous gift of fruit trees to create a mini Alnwick orchard for the benefit of our clients and the local Brunswick community. It will help considerably towards our dream of creating a place to relax and setting up our own market garden. We are excited about involving our clients and the local community.”
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Her Grace the Duchess of Northumberland, Patron of Dementia Care Partnership (DCP), officially opened the Bradbury Centre on Thursday 3rd November.
DCP’s purpose-built Centre has been carefully thought through to offer social, leisure and learning opportunities for people with dementia and other mental health problems.
The Bradbury Centre is unique in that it is family orientated and many of the facilities are available to the local community.
The Duchess of Northumberland said, “I am delighted to open the Bradbury Centre which is at the cutting edge in dementia care in Newcastle. It is good to hear that the centre design and its facilities came about as a result of DCP taking a holistic approach by focusing on the whole family and taking on board their suggestions that will make a big difference to their lives. I am impressed with the services on offer which is attractive to people of all ages and wish DCP every success in this venture.”
The Bradbury Centre incorporates a Restaurant which has proved successful with the local community and offers a variety of delicious meals, including Sunday lunches, which are competitively priced.
A breast feeding clinic and mothers and toddlers group rent a room each week. Not only can they enjoy lunch in friendly surroundings but having babies and young children in the Centre gives so much pleasure to older clients.
The three activity rooms provide a wide range of activities such as music, dancing, joinery, indoor bowls, flower arranging, water colours in the ‘noisy activity room’ to yoga, reading, sewing, embroidery etc in the quiet activity room. In addition there are many outside activities such as golf, swimming, rambling and gardening to name a few.
The Training and conference facility provides in-house training and external training The rooms are also available for hire.
Opening soon is the:
5 bedroomed overnight short break (respite) facility particularly aimed at younger people with dementia and older people from the black and minority ethnic communities and their carers.
information technology room which will offer access to the Internet and enable clients to keep in touch with family and friends via e-mail. A tutor will hold regular computer sessions.
hairdressing and beauty therapy room with complementary therapies such as reflexology and Indian head massage.
health and fitness room to boost confidence and for general well-being
Spiritual needs will be catered for in partnership with relevant local churches and a facility for a prayer room forms part of the Ethnic Minority Culture Room.
There will also be a large sensory garden where centre users will be able to relax.
Rachael Shimmin, Head of Adult Services, said “Newcastle Social Services are delighted to welcome the expansion of services for people with dementia within the city and would like to congratulate Rani Svanberg and her team on further developing this service.”
DCP is grateful to the following major funders for helping to make the Centre a reality: Bradbury Foundation, Zurich Financial Services, Wolfson Foundation, Lloyds TSB Foundation, Tudor Trust, Northern Rock Foundation, Rank Foundation, Henry Smith Foundation, Dunhill Medical Trust, Sir James Knott Trust, Charles Hayward Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, Percy Bilton Charity, Rayne Foundation.
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