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
The Bar is Open
Residents enjoyed an afternoon of live music and their favourite tipple. Staff asked everyone what their favourite drink was when visiting the pub. Then it came to life. With drinks ranging from Beer, to wine and others in between. With Mary requesting a good old fashioned snowball.
Getting Festive
With Christmas fast approaching. Our mini bus was out and about again. This time our residents visited the local christmas market. With lots of stalls full of trinkets and gifts. It made for a lovely afternoon out.
Making Dreams come true
Maureen used to be a lingerie buyer for Marks and Spencers. When the home heard about her very successful career. They set to work contacting the store. They spoke with a director who remembered Maureen. She was delighted to make up a this is your life style book in honour of her fabulous career with them. From photos of Maureen in her hey day as well as the story of the department that Maureen was so fond of.
RAF Presentation
Residents and guests were joined by local Volunteer Linda from Kenley Revival. As she took everyone on a trip back to WWI. She talked about those that fought there and stories of survival and hope. Everyone really enjoyed the afternoon and we will be holding more talks and presentaions in the coming months.
We are going Digital
Training in full swing as we prepare for the launch of our new digital care system. It will plan, record and co-ordinate the care and life enrichment of our residents. Supporting us to continue to offer the highest quality of care to those we support.
Croydon Museum Reminiscence Session
Croydon Museum recently joined us for a fascinating session all about the War and what it mean to those that lived it. Paulette bought lots of wonderful memorabilia and sparked some great conversations and stories of times gone by. Paulette will be back again next month and we would love our community to come and join in. Pop over to our Facebook page to find out more.
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.
