Activities at Tandridge Heights Care Home
Our qualified and dedicated activities staff plan and implement all activities within the home. We try our best to arrange activities that reflect our residents interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can. We try to keep our residents active and happy.
Our activities include trips to garden centres, pubs, the cinema or the local theatre. We have many fun games like carpet bowls, Play Your Cards Right or armchair exercises. There are many musical events, singalongs, garden parties and tea parties for everyone to enjoy as well!
Kelly Sherwin
I started at Tandridge Heights in 2020. Previous to this, I have been working as a carer sine 2010, which has helped me to understand the needs, wants and the individuality of all of our residents.
My main responsibility is provide a varied and engaging activities schedule every day for our residents; this helps to keep them involved in social and uplifting activities. We love to have parties to celebrate birthdays, national days and special occasions.
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 Tandridge Heights Care Home
Monthly menopause meet up at Tandridge Heights.
Tandridge Height hosted our 2nd Menopause Meet up in collaboration with Helen from Venus Nutrition and another well attended and interesting event. This months guest speaker was Aileen Ross Rehab & Pilates who spoke about the importance of movement in midlife and gave valuable information on Osteoporosis.
Our next guest speaker on Tuesday 21st May at 630pm will be Gemma Pilkington GP Physiotherapy presenting on Pelvic Health. Giving effective strategies and exercises to manage issues and emphasising the importance of pelvic floor health for overall well-being.
This is a community event and open to all. Please go to the link below to reserve a free place now https://www.venusnutrition.co.uk/events or call our friendly team at Tandridge Heights on 01883 715595 for more information
A visit to Bottle Hill Farm.
Wow what a view!! Today we enjoyed a fabulous meal the Bottle Hill Farm House. Mena couldn’t wait to enjoy her pub lunch. The company and food were outstanding and the view just couldn’t be topped.
If you would like to know more about life at Tandridge Heights please give our friendly team a call on 01883 715595
Pub lunch
During a recent get together the residents began talking about where they used to enjoy going for a meal locally. Sally, Hugh’s wife told us how they used to go to the Bletchingly Arms and that Hugh loves the burgers. With this in mind we all set off for the Bletchingly Arms on a sunny Wednesday. Meals were soon decided on along with a tipple of choice. Fish and chips was a firm favourite and we all could not believe the size of Hugh’s burger. The conversation flowed with current debates along with a lot of reminiscence . Alan regaled us with lovely stories from when he went to Football with his daughter. We all enjoyed our food and Hugh even managed a pudding.
Easter Celebrations
Staff and residents at Barchester’s Tandridge Heights care home, in Oxted, celebrated Easter with a family fun day at the home. We invited families, friends and members of the local community to join us. Over 30 children took part in our Easter exciting bunny hunt, searching the gardens and parts of the home to win a delicious Easter prize. We had a colouring competition, guess the bunnies name to win him and lots of other fun games for families and residents to do together. Residents at Tandridge Heights enjoyed an eggs-tensive range of Easter activities, from church services to making delicious cakes and Easter treats in our baking club. Residents also tucked in to a delicious Easter meal of roast lamb with all the trimmings followed by a homemade Easter cake prepared by the home’s head chef Mel. Ronald, resident at Tandridge Heights said: “It has been so lovely to spend time with my family this Easter, though like every Easter, I think I’ve eaten too much chocolate! It was so wonderful to see everyone go to so much effort. I really enjoyed the fun day and playing games with my grandchildren.”
St Patricks Day
The luck of the Irish was with us this weekend for St. Patricks Day celebrations. Residents were delighted to welcome the youngest members of Keady Academy of Irish Dance to perform a selection of Irish dances and to chat to our residents about their performances.
Our memory lane residents were busy making traditional Irish Soda Bread which they then enjoyed with a nice cup of tea. Our volunteer Doreen regaled residents with stories of traditional St. Patricks Day celebrations of when she lived in Ireland. Our resident, John said “The parties sounded like a right Craic” We finished the celebrations with a good old Irish sing along to Oh Danny Boy.
A trip out shopping.
When the sun is shining we love nothing more than getting out and about.
Today, residents from Tandridge Heights hopped on our minim bus and went out in the glorious sunshine for a visit to Haskins Garden Centre in Crawley. We enjoyed a delicious lunch in their cafe and a good old mooch around the shop.
Reene, a resident at Tandridge Heights purchased some lovely items for her family and for her room.
