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
Museum of Croydon come to Chestnut Gardens
Residents and guests enjoyed a Museum handling object session provided by the Museum of Croydon.
The session introduced a range of Museum collections and objects for our participants to inspire engagement. The objects facilitated fun discussions, laughter and engagement between our residents and the local community.
We look forward to welcoming back Museum of Croydon to Chestnut Gardens 19th October.
Cheese and Wine evening with live music
Residents and guests enjoyed a wonderful evening tasting a selection of different cheeses and wine with wonderful live music by vocalist and guitarist Santino Fabbricatore.
Lovely to see everyone singing and dancing.
Lynette Richards - Lorde reached top jobs in NHS nursing
Reaching out for local community is one of the most important ways we ensure our residents stay in touch with what’s going on and we like to welcome distinguished members of the local community. We were delighted to welcome incredible Lynnette Lorde, read more about her https://nhsrf.org.uk/lynette-richards-lorde-angels-at-my-shoulder/
Inner Wheel of Croydon Afternoon tea with Harpist
What an amazing afternoon we had at Chestnut Gardens! We were delighted to welcome the Inner Wheel of Croydon to Afternoon Tea with brilliant harpist Kazia who presented very interesting musical program. At the end of recital she brought in small harps to teach our residents! It was such a great event, enjoyed by all!
Butlers of Buckingham Palace
We are delighted to be associated with great people who came to spend time enhancing the lives of our residents. We couldn't believe who popped by to help serve at our charity event. Simon and Peter butlers to our dear King at Buckingham Palace.
Summer Fete
Staff, residents, relatives and the local community came together at Chestnut Gardens to enjoy a Summer Fete that was held at the home on Sunday 6th August.
Chestnut Gardens hosted a variety of activities throughout the day, including live entertainment from Bollywood dancers and the Phonix Concert Band. Stalls selling luxury goods and amazing food provided by our chefs which were enjoyed by everyone who came to the event.
Staff at Chestnut Gardens made everyone feel welcome and were delighted to see different generations having fun together. Visitors enjoyed plenty of refreshments, such as a selection of sandwiches, canapes, hot dogs, salads,cakes and a varity of drinks, prepared by the catering team, who were hard at work making sure that a great time was had by all – it really was a team effort!
Resident, Majorie, said, “I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was surrounded by lots of great people, and the refreshments kept flowing. The weather held out until we finished. Staff did a great job, not just on the day, but organising the event and getting everyone together.”
Upcoming events
Last Community Café Before Xmas Break
Last Community Café before Christmas Break. We will have a Quaker Steel Band Performing
