76
Registered care homes
Care home operator
Sanctuary Care Limited
76 registered care homes, about 3,839 beds across 24 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
3,839
Registered beds
24
Counties covered
95%
Rated Good or Outstanding
Sanctuary Care Limited operates 76 CQC-registered care homes with about 3,839 beds across 24 counties in England, a large national operator. Around 95% 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 Sanctuary 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 Sanctuary 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
| Outstanding | 2 |
| Good | 69 |
| Requires improvement | 3 |
| Inadequate | 1 |
| Not yet rated | 1 |
Geographic spread
Where Sanctuary Care Limited operates
The group's footprint by county, the operating geography a lender or acquirer underwrites.
| County | Homes | Beds | Towns |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater London | 16 | 751 | 11 |
| Cornwall | 12 | 515 | 10 |
| West Midlands | 9 | 478 | 3 |
| County Durham | 4 | 217 | 3 |
| Devon | 4 | 236 | 4 |
| Cheshire | 3 | 161 | 3 |
| Derbyshire | 3 | 160 | 1 |
| Essex | 3 | 114 | 3 |
| Oxfordshire | 3 | 186 | 3 |
| Somerset | 3 | 224 | 3 |
| Merseyside | 2 | 96 | 2 |
| Tyne and Wear | 2 | 129 | 2 |
| Buckinghamshire | 1 | 62 | 1 |
| Cambridgeshire | 1 | 37 | 1 |
| Greater Manchester | 1 | 33 | 1 |
| Hampshire | 1 | 52 | 1 |
| Kent | 1 | 60 | 1 |
| Lancashire | 1 | 37 | 1 |
| Leicestershire | 1 | 42 | 1 |
| South Yorkshire | 1 | 60 | 1 |
| Staffordshire | 1 | 36 | 1 |
| Suffolk | 1 | 27 | 1 |
| Wiltshire | 1 | 66 | 1 |
| Worcestershire | 1 | 60 | 1 |
Portfolio
Sanctuary Care Limited 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 Sanctuary Care Limited.
Acquiring, refinancing or competing with Sanctuary Care Limited?
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