30
Registered care homes
Care home operator
Leonard Cheshire Disability
30 registered care homes, about 667 beds across 18 counties in England. Portfolio, ratings and the finance an acquisition or refinance would use.
Written and reviewed by Matt Lenzie Founder & Principal Broker · 25 years arranging care home finance · Reviewed June 2026
667
Registered beds
18
Counties covered
62%
Rated Good or Outstanding
Leonard Cheshire Disability operates 30 CQC-registered care homes with about 667 beds across 18 counties in England, a substantial regional group. Around 62% of its rated homes are rated Good or Outstanding. For an acquirer, lender or investor the group's covenant rests on that trading base and bed stock, and its CQC rating profile is the clearest read on operational quality across the portfolio.
Financing a group like Leonard Cheshire Disability
We arrange finance relevant to a group of this scale: portfolio acquisition and whole-company funding, refinancing of an existing facility, development capital for new beds, and sale-and-leaseback to release freehold value while the operator keeps trading. Whether you are acquiring Leonard Cheshire Disability, competing with it locally, or benchmarking covenant and rating profile before lending, the portfolio below is the operating footprint a credit decision reads.
Finance we arrange for operators
CQC rating profile
| Outstanding | 3 |
| Good | 15 |
| Requires improvement | 10 |
| Inadequate | 1 |
Geographic spread
Where Leonard Cheshire Disability operates
The group's footprint by county, the operating geography a lender or acquirer underwrites.
| County | Homes | Beds | Towns |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater London | 4 | 67 | 2 |
| Kent | 3 | 75 | 3 |
| Leicestershire | 3 | 62 | 2 |
| Sussex | 3 | 92 | 3 |
| Bedfordshire | 2 | 30 | 1 |
| Somerset | 2 | 19 | 1 |
| Surrey | 2 | 53 | 1 |
| Bristol | 1 | 22 | 1 |
| Cambridgeshire | 1 | 22 | 1 |
| Cornwall | 1 | 27 | 1 |
| County Durham | 1 | 25 | 1 |
| Essex | 1 | 29 | 1 |
| Gloucestershire | 1 | 30 | 1 |
| Greater Manchester | 1 | 13 | 1 |
| Hampshire | 1 | 24 | 1 |
| Oxfordshire | 1 | 24 | 1 |
| Tyne and Wear | 1 | 20 | 1 |
| West Midlands | 1 | 33 | 1 |
Portfolio
Leonard Cheshire Disability care homes
Every registered home in the group, largest by bed count first.
Source: Care Quality Commission care directory, 03 June 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Registration and bed data only; not affiliated with or endorsed by Leonard Cheshire Disability.
Acquiring, refinancing or competing with Leonard Cheshire Disability?
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