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
Community Café
Community Café Success
It was great turnout for Chestnut Gardens Community Café , it was so nice to see the residents and visitors enjoying an afternoon of singing and dancing in our wonderful home .
Corner Gallery Visit
Day out at the Gallery
Our residents had a lovely outing at the Corner Gallery next to Carlshalton Ponds .
They had an amazing tour of the vibrant works of local and national artists
Cat Day
Cat Day .
Not sure who enjoyed it the most , the residents, the staff or the cats. It was so nice to see all the smiles or everyone's faces and we know the cats enjoyed the fuss immensely and loved exploring our wonderful home and lovely gardens.
Zoo Visit to the Home
Residents at Chestnut Gardens were pleasantly surprised to see animals such as a Giant Snail, Bearded Dragon, Scorpion and large beetle come and visit them. All the residents were amazing brave as they were able to get up very close to these and even some were really excited to hold them in their hands. They also learnt about how they are cared for and where they come from in the wild.
Garden Centre Visit.
We had a great visit to the Garden Centre whilst the weather was glorious. The residents enjoyed the abundance off flowers and plants that were on display and loved seeing the fishes and even bumped into Therapy Dog that was enjoying the garden centre .
Therapy Dog Day
A lovely visit was had when therapy dog Bailey came to visit us all. Residents and staff made a big fuss of him and he certaily enjoyed all the attention that was recevied. We look forward to welcoming back Bailey very soon.
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.
