Activities at Chestnut Gardens Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Rikardas Cirunas
Hello, my name is Rikardus and I am the Activities Co-ordinator at Chestnut Gardens Care Home.
I have worked for Barchester for five years and was so excited to be part of such a excellent team at this beautiful home.
Every day I look forward to supporting our residents in living a full and enriched life and especially enjoy the outdoor activities that we arrange to the local attractions, even if the weather can be unpredictable at times.
We also hold loads of varied internal activities so everyone is catered for and the musicians and therapy animals are a very big hit.
Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Chestnut Gardens Care Home
Carehome.co.uk Awards
We are so happy to announce that we have received the 'Top 20 Came Home 2024' Award from Carehome.co.uk!
We have received this award in recognition that our home is in the top 20 rated care homes in our region, based on published reviews from residents and their family and friends.
Everyone at the home has been working incredibly hard to achieve high standards of care for their residents and are thrilled to celebrate this amazing achievement. Carehome.co.uk is the leading care home reviews website in the UK with nearly 18,000 care homes, 16 million+ visits per year and over 300,000 care home reviews.
A broad selection of friends and families have left glowing reviews of their experiences with the home on the website. To achieve this award is a huge team effort, and we would like to say a big thank you to anyone who left a review and helped us achieve this award.
Private Dining
We here at Chestnut Gardens provided an afternoon of private dining so one of our residents could have her family come and enjoy our fantastic catering and be surrounded by her loved ones. I think from the photos you can see it was huge success.
Connecting Croydon
Connecting Croydon held their monthly networking meeting here at our home . Another fabulous event bringing local businesses and charities together and viewing our outstanding home and engaging with the staff and residents .
Zoo Afternoon
It was an afternoon full of animal mischief again when the mobile zoo came to visit the home.
Residents at Chestnut Gardens were so relaxed and not at all worried about holding the snake and spider in their hands along with the other small creatures brought to the home .
Cheese and Wine Evening
Cheese and Wine days are very popular here in the home , what a nice time to relax and enjoy some locally sourced cheese's over a nice refreshing glass of wine.
Cake Day
Our residents enjoyed an afternoon of fun when they all got involved in cake making and decorating. The best bit was once the decorating was finished they enjoyed their own home made cakes. We certainly have quite a few talented cake makers in our home .
Upcoming events
Blue Light Breakfast 19th March 8:00am -10:00am
If you’re part of the Emergency Services /GP or a CommunityDistrict Nurse, drop in to our home on 19th March andgrab a free takeaway pastry and coffee or tea for breakfast
March Community Café
Come and meet friends at our Community Café afternoon, enjoy the entertainment over light refreshments. Starts at 2:30pm - and finishes at 4:30pm . All are welcome
OPEN DAY 5TH APRIL
Saturday 5th April 2025 Chestnut Gardens Open Day - 10:00am -4:00pm
All welcome just pop along on the day and enjoy the entertainment and refreshments.
