A warm welcome awaits
Live well in our care
Where staff are friends
beautifully designed rooms
Relax in elegant surroundings
Lavender Oaks
Carshalton
4 Metcalfe Avenue,
Carshalton SM5 4AQ
(Sat Navs SM5 4AN – Please note the home is only accessible from the Woodmansterne Road end of Metcalfe Avenue)
New resident enquiries 020 3957 5187
All other enquiries 020 3957 5200
Ideally located in a spacious and leafy site with panoramic views of surrounding hills and woodland, Porthaven’s care home, Lavender Oaks, sits proudly on Metcalfe Avenue, off Woodmansterne Road. As well as providing excellent care for the residents of Carshalton, our home is a very popular home for many residents of surrounding villages and towns such as Woodcote, Chipstead and Banstead.
Lavender Oaks provides 24 hour residential, nursing, dementia and respite care for the elderly in an elegant and spacious home incorporating numerous thoughtful and practical features which ensure our home is able to meet the changing needs of its residents.
Porthaven’s expertly trained and professional staff are dedicated to the care, comfort and dignity of all our residents, with special emphasis given to promoting independence, privacy, respect and wellbeing.
Residents benefit from living in a caring environment with generously appointed private bedrooms with en suite wetrooms, and plentiful communal living areas including sitting rooms, restaurants, a café, cinema, hairdressing salon and nail bar, leisure and wellness room and private dining room for special family occasions.
In keeping with our unique and award winning leisure and wellness philosophy, our residents also benefit from our private and secure landscaped garden for peaceful relaxation, gardening and if the weather permits, gentle exercising.
We would be delighted to meet you, show you around and discuss how we can assist you or your loved one.
To arrange a visit, please either call our home manager, Heather Hadizad, or our client services manager, Sue Burgess, or if you prefer, simply send us a message.
Activities - Join us!
Below are a selection of upcoming activities at Lavender Oaks. For the full listing, please click here.
Brew Monday
Monday 20th January 2020 - 3:00pm
Lavender Oaks will introduce a monthly tea tasting activity supporting NAPA special events. We will provide loose leaf tea for a tasting session in our own bistro. Our leisure & wellness co-ordinator will provide a sample of various teas to include speciality teas as well as old favourites. Older people are especially vulnerable to loneliness and isolation and in line with advice from Age UK we will bring our residents together to enjoy a traditional cuppa and a chat and make new friends in the process!
Burns Night
Saturday 25th January 2020 - 3:00pm
Commemorating the life of the poet Robert Burns we will be introducing Poetry Hour and having an informal get together in the afternoon to recite poetry and enjoy a wee dram as well as some Scottish homemade shortbread. We will be playing and singing along to a traditional Scottish playlist and having some fun.
Vintage Tea Dance
Tuesday 28th January 2020 - 3:00pm
Lavender Oaks will be hosting the monthly tea dance with our popular singer, Barry Stevens. Our residents enjoy Barry’s visit to sing his cover versions of popular songs through the decades. There will be tea and cake served in vintage tea cups and saucers provided by our catering team creating a cream tea experience reminiscent of tea at the Ritz!
Wellbeing Wednesday
Wednesday 29th January 2020 - 2:30pm
We will introduce a monthly wellbeing session in our Oaks Lounge. Lorraine our in-house mindfulness coach will be introducing mindfulness, breath work and relaxation alongside quiet contemplation in our Oaks Lounge on Wednesday afternoons for our residents and staff to have a taster of the benefits of this calming practice.
All this is happening as well as our regular groups. Contact us today on 020 3957 5200 to find out more about these upcoming events and activities or why not suggest an activity yourself!
View the full Lavender Oaks activities listing
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News & Events at Lavender Oaks
Welcome to our Winter 2019-20 edition of the Lavender Oaks Lowdown
Art Project with Carshalton Sports Academy
In October, two of our residents, Colin Bocarro and Helen Mesure, visited Carshalton Sports Academy for a sitting to have their portraits painted. The pair modelled as art students from the school created line drawings, in preparation for creating a portrait. Lauren Avery, Head of Art, hosted the sitting and invited a music student to […]
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Gatwick Aviation Museum Visit
Three of our gentlemen residents, Jim, Michael and David, enjoyed a day out at Gatwick Aviation Museum, which neighbours the North Terminal of the airport. Our group were shown around by an ex-serving Squadron Leader who expertly explained the technical specifications of the aircraft on display. Our residents were enthralled with the aircraft on display […]
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Invictus Champion Enthrals with Tales of Inspirational Feats
On Friday 27th September, we were joined by none other than Invictus Games gold and bronze medallist, Steve Sebburn. Steve is known for his victories at last year’s Invictus Games in Sydney and enthralled our residents and guests with tales of his military career and his sporting triumphs. Steve was seriously injured whilst on a […]
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