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
Mad Hatters Halloween Tea Party
Tandridge Heights celebrated Halloween with a Mad Hatters Halloween Tea Party, we had delicious homemade cupcakes, jam tarts and scones baked by our head chef, Mel. Residents enjoyed Halloween music, games and chatting to family and friends.
A trip to our Local Pub
Residents at Tandridge Heights recently enjoyed a delicious pub lunch. We visited The Peacock Lodge in Crawley and had a really lovely afternoon.
Ron, a resident at Tandridge Heights said "I had such a great time enjoying my pint and chatting to friends, it was just like the old days"
Macmillan Coffee Morning
Tandridge Heights recently held their annual McMillan coffee morning. We made the day extra special by inviting Nina Brohman to sing for our residents as well as children from Hazelwood school who joined us for the event. We had lots of delicious homemade cakes, baked by our head chef Mel. We managed to raise £90 for McMillan Cancer Care which we are all very proud of.
Charity Craft Fayre
Tandridge Heights recently hosted a Charity Craft Fayre to raise money and awareness for local charity, Ruben’s Fund. We had different stalls selling various home-made gifts, jewellery and household items, we had a reptile station, a hot dog stall and a charity raffle. Even one of our residents Brenda had a stall and sold the items she had knitted for new born babies. We managed to raise over £200 for the very worthwhile charity. Staff, residents and the community really came together to create a lovely day for everyone.
Fiona's Farm Therapy
Residents recently enjoyed a visit from Fiona’s Farm therapy, they had the opportunity to hold and pet chickens, rabbits, ducks and guinea pigs.
Pet therapy has been proven to have many health benefits for residents living with Dementia, it can improve mood, nutrition and social interaction, it also has a very calming effect and can help with anxiety. Residents had a lovely afternoon finding out interesting facts about all the animals they interacted with.
Snooker club
Here at Tandridge Heights have started our very own snooker club. Residents have been having a great time playing games of snooker whilst enjoying an ice cold beer in the recent beautiful sunshine. John is currently our undefeated snooker champion.
