Looking to the future

Our company strategy and new developments

The company

Care South leases 18 homes from local councils in Dorset and has done so since its inception in 1991, as The Dorset Trust. During that time it has rebuilt and acquired 6 homes and plans to do more of the same in the future.

Care South remains consistent, with the ultimate aim of making older people feel safe and well provided for whilst perhaps enduring dementia and other related problems associated with ageing.

Within Care South care is, without exception, the main focus of the charity and the trustees formulate their strategy for the future to ensure that it meets the need for the service users and provides for those either in their own homes, or residential care, mindful always of the client group and not driven by the political environment of the day.

New developments

In 2008 Care South received planning permission for a development of the Strome Park site adjacent to Sussexdown nursing and residential home in Storrington, West Sussex. This was most encouraging and welcomed by the company as it gave Care South the opportunity to build on the environment already offered by Sussexdown for the care of older people and to extend the provision of residential, nursing and dementia care to embrace independent living. This would provide for an earlier stage of dependency and desire to provide for the future, by offering the sale of apartments alongside a care environment supplementing, as required, servicing of the residents needs whilst enabling them to remain largely independent.

Care South believes this is the way of the future, to allow choice without vulnerability. It is the stated intention of the board of Care South to pursue this aim, where financially appropriate and opportune, for the future development of the company and its staff and, therefore, the older population of Southern England.

This is further endorsed by a similar development, following the acquisition of Beauchamp House and Beauchamp Gardens in Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset. This unique and wholly delightful site accommodates residential and independent older people and offers unparalleled care and opportunity for their benefit.

Care South is committed to the delivery of quality care for older persons, in both the home and residential environment, whilst understanding and offering qualified dementia and nursing care and support.