Chestnut GardensBarchester Healthcare

Activities at Chestnut Gardens Care Home

Name: Chestnut Gardens Care Home
Address: 95 Foxley Lane, Purley, CR8 3HP, GB
Telephone: 020 8053 0236

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.

Read our brochure ‘Life-enriching activities’ for more information about life in our care homes.

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Louise Pittman

Louise brings warmth, creativity, and a deeply person‑centred approach to her role as Activities Coordinator at Chestnut Gardens. With a natural gift for making people feel seen, valued, and included, she designs meaningful experiences that celebrate each resident’s individuality and life story. Her work blends imagination with compassion, ensuring that every activity supports wellbeing, dignity, and joy.

Before joining Chestnut Gardens, Louise built a rich and varied career rooted in care, community, and emotional connection. In 2018, she founded a dog rescue that continues to thrive today, a testament to her dedication, resilience, and belief in second chances. Her years in rescue and rehabilitation taught her the power of patience, trust‑building, and creating safe, nurturing environments. These values now shape her approach to supporting residents, especially those living with dementia or adjusting to new surroundings.

Family is at the heart of everything Louise does. She is a proud mum of four, three boys and a girl and grandmother to five wonderful grandchildren.

Louise is passionate about crafting uplifting moments, from quiet reminiscence sessions to lively celebrations that fill the home with music, laughter, and creativity. She works closely with residents, families, and the wider team to ensure that everyone has opportunities to flourish in ways that feel authentic and empowering.

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Celebrating life at Chestnut Gardens Care Home

Taster Day

The residents at Chestnut Gardens enjoyed a special tasting menu created by our award-winning Chef Roshan. This event was inspired by discussions at our resident meetings, where residents expressed an interest in sampling a variety of dishes to help influence future menu choices.

The tasting menu was a great success, with residents thoroughly enjoying the opportunity to try different options and share their preferences.
Their feedback will help us continue to create menus that reflect the tastes and wishes of those who call Chestnut Gardens home.

A big thank you to Chef Roshan and our catering team for delivering such a delightful culinary experience!

Curry Week

Our staff and residents had a fantastic time celebrating National Curry Week, which took place recently.

Our award winning Chef Roshan led a superb masterclass session on all the secrets to creating mouth watering curries.

Afternoon of Flower Arranging

We are so lucky to have so many creative residents here at our beautiful home and out of the many activities we do we decided to have an afternoon of flower arranging.

These creative activities always prove to be popular and help with social and cognitive engagement too

Dementia Friendly Beauty Spa

We are lucky to have the lovely Sandra a qualified beautician offer dementia friendly beauty treatments.

Sandra is offering her wonderful beauty services as part of our monthly dementia friendly hair and beauty spa day!

Her mother and family are regular visitors to Chestnut Garden and she understand that for those with dementia need a caring and specialist approach

If you would like to find out more on how to book a space in our next spa day here please contact the home direct....

Ladies that brunch

Some of our lady residents decided to make use of our private dining rooms for a little brunch and chat time

Prosecco was being poured and fun was had as they enjoyed having quality time to be together and chat

Pizza Day

Pizza Day has been a real treat at the home, staff and residents do not need any excuse in getting out their aprons and kneading the dough to make home-made pizzas any occasion.

Many residents at Chestnut Gardens personalized their own pizzas with a selection of healthy, tasty treats, including the usual toppings like pepperoni and even pineapple.

Pet Therapy

We are always so delighted to have Bailey come to visit our home.

He brings a calm and beautiful relaxed presence to our residents and we absolutely adore him....

Pet therapy brings a soothing, relaxing and positive effect on our residents, thank you Bailey.

Roshan wins award

We are so proud of our super talented chef Roshan who has won Barchester Healthcare South East region's Chef of the Year award!!

His amazing talent and dedication has been recognised and deservedly so... Roshan has created beautifully presented and delicious foods here at Chestnut and there is nothing he cannot do!

How lucky are we to have such a creative and superb chef in our home.

From his delicious curries to his very popular fish and chips he and his team give the home culinary experiences at every meal time

CONGRATULATIONS ROSHAN

DJAG visit

What an extra special day we all had when the fab DJAG came to perform alongside the stars of the show our wonderful residents...

We sang, danced, swayed along to the chosen songs with specific memories for those who wanted to take part in DJAG's visit.

One of the best days we have had and really was magical to see everyone join in

The full video link will follow soon

Heatwave refreshments

Our amazing chef Roshan and the hard working hospitality team are making sure that our residents are continually topped up with hydrating drinks and snacks during this heatwave.

As everyone knows it's important to keep hydrated so we are making sure the hydration top up's are offered throughout the day.

Arts and Craft Day

What a wonderful afternoon we had here at Chestnut Gardens. Our residents enjoyed a colourful arts and crafts session
Arts and crafts offer our residents a chance to express themselves, keep their minds active, and enjoy the calming, therapeutic benefits of
creativity. It’s amazing how something as simple as painting or making decorations can lift spirits, spark conversation, and bring everyone together.
The room was full of cheering, encouragement, and pure joy.A perfect blend of creativity, movement, and connection. These are the moments that make our home feel so special

Barchester Foundation - Chestnut Gardens donates to local charity

We presented a cheque for £1000 to local charity 'A Place At My Table' towards their amazing work in supporting the elderly in Croydon, Purley and Sutton.

Joseph Jeffers, Chair from the charity was delighted to accept this donation and will put this to work with providing more activities and entertainment.

Crafts and Beats

We love having Tracy from Crafts and Beats visit us.

A wonderful way to come together, enjoy music and to dance along!

Tracy is a firm favourite with the home she brings an uplifting and warm energy to Chestnut Garden that we all can't resist getting up to join in.

Making musical memories

We really enjoy the musical sessions that Tracey brings when she visits our home

If gives us the opportunity to express our inner musical talents and have some fun!

All whilst making memories..

Respite stays

We understand that for some finding a place to support and care a loved one can be incredibly difficult. In an emergency you need a fast responsive care home that can provide an assessment and admission in as little as 24 hours.

We have had the lovely Judith stay with us as a respite resident due to her having a fall in her own home and sadly breaking her arm. Judith is local to Purley and has been a regular respite resident here.

She found Chestnut Garden due to our amazing Care Home UK rating and her family contacted us to help provide some care as she recovered. Since then she has returned to visit and to stay several times.

We are very happy to be able to provide the care necessary to get someone fit to return to their home, although always welcome back at anytime