Activities at Chestnut Gardens Care Home
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.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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
Councillor's Visit
Cllr Samir Dwesar kindly paid us a visit and chatted about we can all work together for the best of our retired community. Our residents enjoyed being able to share their thoughts and queries about all things government!
Coronation!
Chestnut Gardens thoroughly enjoyed the Coronation weekend! With a fantastic "Full English" breakfast on Saturday followed by a viewing of Coronation proceedings in our "State of the art" Cinema the weekend carried on with sumptous teas, garden party and "The Big Lunch!" with entertainment.
A trip to our new local, M&S
Residents and team members of Chestnut Gardens enjoyed a trip out on the mini bus to the brand new Purley, M&S store. Manager, Camilla and her team gave us a warm welcome and are going to come to host events at our home very soon! Watch this space for dates of our Fashion Show with "Colour Matching!" this summer!
Employee of the Month April
Sadie is an amazing part of our team! As an experienced Head of Housekeeping we're delighted to have her with us. She keeps our wonderful new home as beautiful as it was on day one! Sadie ensures all our residents laundry needs are met instantly too! Thank you Sadie and well done!
May Day!
We had such fun with the Northwood Morris Dancers celebrating Spring and rebirth! They delighted and entertained inside our home, outside our home and even in the street to the amusement of all passing! Bobbie the pooch came too!
Board Games
A wonderful afternoon of board and card games was had by all at Chestnut Gardens as we were joined by Mike and the u3a Caterham & District, brand new gaming club!
Upcoming events
Last Community Café Before Xmas Break
Last Community Café before Christmas Break. We will have a Quaker Steel Band Performing
