How we help you stay healthy and active

Our mission is to provide high quality, safe, person-centred, culturally specific care services, thereby empowering the Pepper Pot users to play a more effective role in their health and well being. We do this at the Centre by facilitating a range of stimulating, social, therapeutic, health promoting and fitness activities as well as by arranging various local and international outings and trips.

A big warm welcome

Pepper Pot is a meeting place for many older adults who would otherwise be isolated and lonely. The Centre receives referrals from Adult Social Services, NHS, GPs, friends and neighbours. It also provides daytime respite to the care givers of those service users whose round-the-clock requirements mean they are unable to manage on their own. The Centre is therefore a wonderful benefit and support to both the service users and their families.

Pepper Pot keeps a community cohesive, happy and supported. The level of hospitality and service are important for physical health and mental stimulation. – Shaun Bailey

Our users are offered a range of Services tailored to their needs. These include:

• Freshly cooked, hot, nutritious African and Caribbean meals and snacks from Mondays to Fridays.
• A Meals on Wheels service to those who are housebound in the community.
• Transport Services for the day care service users to enable them to attend the Centre.
• Qualified Care Staff to provide high-quality, safe and person-centred care.
• Ongoing liaison with Care Managers to ensure proper monitoring and implementing of individual care packages.
• Ongoing liaison with GP’s nurses and family members or carers to ensure health and well-being of service users and to report any deterioration in health.
• Personal care services, including a bathing service, if required.
• Befriending or Outreach Services for those that are housebound, isolated and/or depressed.
• General Advice and Information – the services of an Outreach Officer is available to give advice or to forward the user’s query to the appropriate agency.

The Centre also offers a range of Activities:

• Healthy Lifestyle activities – chair exercises, yoga, tai chi, expert patient programmes, heart health clinic, various health screening clinics, eg diabetes and stroke, a series of health promotion talks/sessions in conjunction with other local and national agencies.
• Emotional and mentally stimulating activities such as quizzes, debates on current affairs, Caribbean games and basic computer learning.
• Cook-and-taste sessions geared towards learning about healthy nutrition.
• A nail-cutting service in conjunction with Age Concern.
• A sewing service to make dress patterns.
• Various spiritual sessions
• Intergenerational services in conjunction with local schools and Historytalk.
• Art and Craftwork to enable users to try their hands at painting, sculpting, drawing or other art forms. The arts activities are particularly useful  for people suffering from differing levels of dementia.

As Pepper Pot moves to embrace the personalization agenda, it is planning to re-structure so as to accommodate new ways of delivering services and at the same time to explore new partnerships with other Black and Ethnic Minority Over 50s groups.