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
Biggin Hill Museum
Residents at Tandridge Heights in Oxted recently enjoyed s visit to Biggin Hill Airport. Residents enjoyed tea and cake in the beautiful 1940’s café before having a tour of the memorial museum and St. George’s RAF chapel of remembrance. Residents spent time learning about the history of Residents from Tandridge Heights care home in Oxted were filled with nostalgia during their Biggin Hill, exploring the Anderson Shelters and having a go at Morse Code on the Telegraphs
Connex Launch!
Tandridge Heights is pleased to announce the launch of Connex, Barchester's new system for keeping all of our homes connected, enhancing our enquiry management and improving customer experience!
Staff and residents celebrated with decorations and delicious homemade cupcakes baked by our very talented head chef, Mel.
Tandridge Heights welcome Marlings Morris
Residents at Tandridge Heights were delighted to welcome the Marlings Morris for an afternoon of music and dancing.
The group consists of local men and women performing the North West Morris style of dancing and some of the dances date back to the 1800’s and take their name from towns in Lancashire and Cheshire.
Resident Jean said it was wonderful to see something so different and colourful on a dreary day.
Talented Andy Mace
Tandridge Heights recently welcomed back the very talented Andy Mace to perform a selection of fun sing-a-long songs. Andy had us all laughing to his cheesy dad jokes and random facts.
Resident, Mena was up dancing and having the best time, she said ‘I just love the fun songs he sings like La Bamba and Pretty woman’
New resident Audrey said ‘Oh its great here, I’ve had the time of my life’
Everyone had such a good time we’ve asked him to come back and perform at our residents Christmas party.
Knit and Natter club
Here at Tandridge Heights we like to keep busy and we love to have a chat so Knit and Natter club is the perfect combination.
We are currently working on blankets and bonding squares for the Premature babies at East Surrey Hospital, the residents all agreed this was a great project and they love to help. We welcome all residents regardless of knitting abilities, many just like to come for the tea and chat and our Head Housekeeper Sharon is always on hand to help sort out and knitting catastrophes. Resident Ann-Marie says ‘It is fantastic! I always used to knit and did not think I could do it anymore due to my Arthritis, it makes me so happy’.
Garden Centre
Residents at Tandridge Heights made the most of the recent sunshine and visited our local Knights Garden Centre in Oxted. Residents spent time browsing the shop and admiring the harvest and Halloween decorations before heading to the café and enjoying a nice cup of tea and a slice of delicious cake. Robin said his Carrot Cake was amazing and the best he’d had in a long time. John absolutely loves flowers and all things garden, he chose some lovely new plants to plant on our balconies and has kept himself busy all weekend making the patios look lovely and colourful.
