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
Dementia Action Week
This week is Dementia Action Week, an Alzheimer's Society initiative. The theme for 2023 is "Diagnosis." Many folk are too worried about what their memory loss what mean, that they retreat in to themselves and won't ask for help and guidance. We're delighted to join our local Waitrose stores to help shoppers understand that they can come to us at Chestnut Gardens and enjoy a complimentary cuppa, slice of chef's award winning gateaux and friendly reassuring chat with our expert team!
A Spa Day!
We don't have to travel far to enjoy a relaxing Spa Day. We have our very own Spa at Chestnut Gardens. Our resident commented, "It's just like being on a Cruise ship without the sea!"
Keep Fit!
Life Enrichment is a whole home approach at Chestnut Gardens. Emily, Head of Administration takes a super Fitness Class weekly with a variety of different genres including seated yoga and even Zumba for those more energetic of us!
Community Cafe
Our regular "open to all" Community Cafe was very busy again this week with attendees being treated to a free manicure and or hand massage!
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.
Upcoming events
April Outside Community Cafe
April Community Café will be held outside in April , depending on weather. Please come and join the afternoons entertainment and refreshments. Everyone invited.
Cheese and Wine Event and Evening Financial Planning Talk.
We Invite you all to a Cheese and Wine Evening at our home with an eveningtalk from Goddard Perry Consulting Ltd on Financial Planning.
