Activities at Tandridge Heights 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.
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.
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
Owls at Tandridge Heights
Tandridge Heights recently had a visit from Owl Adventures. Residents loved seeing different types of owls and even a hawk and learning interesting facts about the different birds of prey.
Mena, a resident, held Gizmo, a tiny little owl, and she absolutely loved it. She said “Isn’t he so lovely and well-behaved?”
Mother's Day!
Tandridge Heights residents celebrated Mother’s Day in style with a fabulous pink party.
All were treated to a wonderful performance from the very talented Andy Mace whilst enjoying a glass of bubbles and delicious homemade cakes and scones.
Singing and dancing were in full force. Resident Ann said it was great to get up and have a dance.
Mocktail Party!
The first day of spring and glorious sunshine, what better way to spend the day than a Hawaiian-themed mocktail party in our beautiful garden?
Residents and staff enjoyed a selection of delicious mocktails, including strawberry and blood orange mojitos, passion fruit martinis, blueberry and blackberry martinis and white grape and peach daiquiris. Residents said they really enjoyed the refreshing flavours.
We also had fun music and lots of singing.
St Patrick's Day!
The luck of the Irish was with us for St Patrick's Day!
Residents were delighted to watch a performance of traditional Irish dancing from Keady Dance Academy whilst enjoying an ice-cold Guinness and traditional Irish snacks.
All residents agreed that the girls were fantastic, and their dresses were beautiful.
Making a wish come true
Jean is a resident of Tandridge Heights. Her family own a selection of garden centres called Knights, which were founded by her parents, Jack and Jessie, and when Jean was younger she used to work at the Chelsham centre, helping with the plants, baking and selling cakes and general help around the store.
Jean’s brothers still own the company and Jean really wanted to go back to the Chelsham centre to see how much it had changed since she was last there. We spoke to Jean’s brother, Jack, who told us stories about Jean working at the garden centre, and he thought it was a great idea, and it would be really lovely for Jean to go back.
We set off in the minibus. When Jean arrived she was so happy. Walking through the garden centre, she was pointing out things that had changed and was telling us what she used to do when she was there. She had a good look round and said hello to all the staff. She even enjoyed a nice slice of cake and a cup of tea in the café she used to work in.
Jean spotted a picture of her mum and dad on the wall and shouted “That’s my mum and dad”, making us all laugh. Jean was overjoyed to have seen the picture and took great delight in sharing the story of the visit and the pictures when her brother Jack visited the next day. Jack said that it was wonderful that Jean had got the opportunity to return to the centre and experience how much it had changed since her days there.
Love is in the air at Tandridge Heights!
Love is in the air at Tandridge Heights
Residents were treated to a fabulous performance from the talented Ryan Fernandez, everybody sang and danced along. We spent the day reminiscing about our own love experiences and talking about what makes a happy marriage. Resident Mena said the best way to have a happy marriage is ‘happy wife, happy life’.
Everybody then enjoyed a sweet treat or chocolate to continue spreading the love. Resident John said it was fantastic to enjoy a bar of chocolate and talk about his wife who loved the same chocolate.
