Chestnut Rise

Our Home

At the front of the home, you are greeted with a small drive and potted flowers. Upon entry to the home, you will find one of three bathrooms, a cosy lounge, a large kitchen-diner and a games area we like to call the ‘Den’.  The ‘Den’ takes you to our large south facing garden, with a patio area encouraging you to enjoy the warm sun setting late into the evenings and overlooking a large lawned area. 

The Chestnut Team

The current young people at our home receive 1:1 care from our dedicated staff team.

Staff at Chestnut Rise undertake a program of training which meets the needs of all our young people, including first aid, medication training and attachment training to help them be confident and understand how to provide the best quality of care to each young person we care for.

The staff at Chestnut Rise are great at listening and gaining the children and young peoples views, wishes and feelings.  They can have 1:1 key work sessions to help gather their thoughts and feelings, which we find very beneficial to the young people, as sometimes they find it difficult to talk in groups such as our weekly young people’s meetings.

We welcome all ideas from our young people on how they want their home to look like and feel, which is recorded in several different ways- including “you said, we did” forms. 

We feel very fortunate as Chestnut Rise is only twenty minutes by train to the City of London, which has lots of opportunities for the young people to enjoy their activities, such as The London Eye, The London Aquarium and London Zoo.  Our young people have been enjoying lots of activities with recent trips to London Zoo, Thorpe Park and the beach-weather permitting! 

"The home has consistency which has gone above and beyond expectations for A’s benefit. Staff have always been helpful and there has never been an occasion where I’ve have been told 'no,' to one of my many requests for contact or school arrangements.” (Social Worker)

Chestnut Activities

In house activities involve lots of garden games, such as Jenga, dominoes, football and swing ball.  When the weather is not great, our young people like to play trivia board games and participate in arts and crafts. The home has regular movie nights- accompanied with a take-away of the young people’s choice- and most recently, the Great British Bake Off!

Our staff team build good links with families and where appropriate, support and facilitate contact with parents, grandparents, siblings – sometimes this involves trips to other parts of the country!