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.
Bus Trip to Battersea Park
Friday 2nd August 2019 - 10.30am
Join us for a trip to Battersea Park and take in the beautiful historic gardens which lie on the banks of the Thames. We’ll take a wander round the park, soaking up the August sunshine before making our way back to the home.
Country Music Tea Party
Friday 2nd August 2019 - 3.00pm
An afternoon of singing along to popular country music songs from the 1950’s to the modern day. Residents and staff will sing and dance along to the hits of Glen Campbell, John Denver, Dolly Parton and others, while enjoying tea and cake in the bistro.
Worthing Seaside Bus Trip
Friday 23rd August 2019 - 10.30am
The bus crew and staff from leisure and wellness will take residents out for the day to Worthing. Residents will be taken for a walk along the pier and promenade and enjoy a fish and chip dinner.
Summer Rewind Party – The 40’s & 50’s
Friday 16th August 2019 - 3.00pm
The leisure and wellness team is hosting a party in the bistro by playing popular songs from the 1940s and 50s. Our residents will enjoy tea and cakes, while singing and dancing to the music of big band swing, rock n’ roll and the well-known crooners, including Dean Martin and Matt Munroe. There will also be the music from films and musicals of that era, including Calamity Jane, South Pacific and Gigi.
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 Summer 2019 edition of the Lavender Oaks Lowdown
Keen Gardener Maureen Cultivates Our Kitchen Garden
In July, our resident Maureen, who is a keen gardener, joined our volunteers Anne and Linda in planting tomatoes, squash and herbs in our kitchen garden. As part of our entry into Porthaven’s annual Garden Challenge, we have been tasked with planting five different vegetables as part of the ‘Vegetable Patch Superstar’ category. As a […]
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Lavender Oaks Welcomes the Carolan Players
On Saturday 1st June, we welcomed The Carolan Players, a five piece ensemble who performed a woodwind concert in our bistro. They performed a selection of music from Tudor times as well as modern day pieces and one of our residents Margaret Fox attended the concert bringing her violin with her. Margaret used to be […]
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Nancy’s Day in the Office!
Nancy, one of our lovely residents, recently joined our home administrator Katie in the office to give her a helping hand. Nancy used to work as a secretary as Bethlem Royal Hospital in Beckenham which she loved and she took the opportunity to tell our admin team all about her working life and family. Nancy […]
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