Third sector update – December 2011

Alternative Futures recorded returns of £74.2m for the year ended 31 March 2011, an increase of 37% on the previous year’s turnover of £54.2m. The...

Mears focuses on telecare

Social housing maintenance and domiciliary care provider, Mears Group, struck a major deal last month with telecare provider Tunstall to develop its services nationwide.Executive...

Signature to expand with £75m investment

Care home operator, Signature, is set to expand into London and the Home Counties after joining forces with US-based investment management firm Heitman in...

ISIS invests in ICCM

In a further sign of the investment market’s interest in high-level domiciliary care providers (CCMn November 2011) ISIS Equity Partners has invested in live-out...

Barchester offers a life of luxury

Barchester Care has opened the second of its ‘boutique’ care homes.Like its predecessor at the Rhalt Care Home in Welshpool, the eight-room facility will...

Success with LNT turnkey sites

Care home developer LNT Group has handed a turnkey development to the not-for-profit provider Sanctuary Care in a deal facilitated by Christie & Co.The...

Smaller is better: the new Anchor strategy

Anchor Trust has revealed it is working with US geriatrician Dr Bill Thomas to bring his ‘Green House approach’, which promotes having facilities with...

A good year for Somerset Care

High occupancy rates led to increases in revenues and profits for major operator Somerset Care Limited its result for the year ended 31 March...

Homecare’s future is bright

About to embark on a massive project which will see his company join the Saga Group (CCMn August/September 2011), Allied healthcare head Sandy Young...

Four Seasons ‘reasonably healthly’

Four Seasons Healthcare Ltd, now the UK’s largest care home operator, reveals revenue of £478.8m in calendar year 2010 (2009: £460.7m) and underlying profitability...