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
KIND Cafe' Comes to Chestnut
We recently welcomed Caroline Bartle a local Dementia specialist to the home. She was so positive an impressed with not just our facilities but our care too. So we will be working together to set up a Cafe her at Chestnut Gardens. We will be opening our doors to the local community. A chance to reminiscence over home made cake and a freshly brewed coffee. Head over to our Facebook page to find out more.
Morning Meditation
Engaging Residents mind body and soul plays an important part of our weekly activities programme. Small stretches and movement helps set us up for the day.
Residents enjoy a ballroom dance class
The residents enjoyed there regular session of ballroom dancing with Simon, a local ballroom dancer.
Simon starts with a performance for the residents, before getting them up on their feet to learn the moves themselves.
It's a great way to entertain the residents, as well as benefit from some light exercise.
Residents enjoy flower arranging
Our residents embraced a seasonal activity in the form of flower arranging.
Using a variety of beautiful flowers, residents enjoyed a sunny morning creating their very own personalised flower displays in the home’s activity room.
Getting creative with their flowers and foliage, the residents fashioned a number of striking spectacles, whilst listening to music and chatting with each other over tea and biscuits.
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.
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.
