18
Registered care homes
Care home operator
Lifeways Community Care Limited
18 registered care homes, about 219 beds across 11 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
219
Registered beds
11
Counties covered
72%
Rated Good or Outstanding
Lifeways Community Care Limited operates 18 CQC-registered care homes with about 219 beds across 11 counties in England, a substantial regional group. Around 72% 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 Lifeways Community Care Limited
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 Lifeways Community Care Limited, 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
| Good | 13 |
| Requires improvement | 5 |
Geographic spread
Where Lifeways Community Care Limited operates
The group's footprint by county, the operating geography a lender or acquirer underwrites.
| County | Homes | Beds | Towns |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Midlands | 5 | 74 | 2 |
| Staffordshire | 3 | 19 | 1 |
| Tyne and Wear | 2 | 40 | 2 |
| County Durham | 1 | 21 | 1 |
| Greater London | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| Greater Manchester | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| Nottinghamshire | 1 | 22 | 1 |
| South Yorkshire | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| Suffolk | 1 | 11 | 1 |
| Sussex | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| Worcestershire | 1 | 5 | 1 |
Portfolio
Lifeways Community Care Limited care homes
Every registered home in the group, largest by bed count first.
| Care home | Location | Beds | Type | CQC rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbeymoor Neurodisability Centre | Gateshead | 36 | Nursing | Good |
| Beeton Grange | Birmingham | 24 | Residential | Good |
| Bulwell | Nottingham | 22 | Residential | Good |
| Unity House | Peterlee | 21 | Residential | Good |
| Millwater | Birmingham | 19 | Residential | Requires improvement |
| The Royd | Birmingham | 16 | Residential | Requires improvement |
| Barleycombe | Sudbury | 11 | Residential | Good |
| Greenlands View | Birmingham | 9 | Residential | Requires improvement |
| Trent View | Burton upon Trent | 9 | Residential | Good |
| Cambridge Park | Richmond | 8 | Residential | Good |
| Kingdom House | Rotherham | 8 | Residential | Good |
| River Lodge | Burton upon Trent | 8 | Residential | Good |
| Ash House | Coventry | 6 | Residential | Requires improvement |
| Elm Tree House | Rochdale | 6 | Residential | Good |
| The Haven | Lewes | 5 | Residential | Requires improvement |
| Woodbury View | Malvern | 5 | Residential | Good |
| Lifeways Community Care (South Shields) | South Shields | 4 | Residential | Good |
| The Coach House | Burton upon Trent | 2 | Residential | Good |
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 Lifeways Community Care Limited.
Acquiring, refinancing or competing with Lifeways Community Care Limited?
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