SANCTUARY CARE LIMITED
Company number 04231521 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Sanctuary Care Limited is a substantial, RSL-backed player in the UK residential care sector, leveraging its parent company's financial resilience to navigate a market plagued by local authority underfunding and severe workforce pressures. Operating over 60 homes, it benefits from economies of scale and access to low-cost capital, giving it a distinct competitive advantage over both fragmented independent operators and heavily leveraged commercial chains. While demographic demand provides long-term revenue security, the company's ongoing challenge will be managing margin compression driven by wage inflation and static local authority fee rates.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2001-06-08
- Registered office
- Sanctuary House Chamber Court, Castle Street, Worcester, England, WR1 3ZQ
- Postcode
- WR1 3ZQ
- Capital
- 2 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-03-31
- Next due by
- 2027-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-06-08
- Next due by
- 2027-06-22
Nature of business (SIC)
- 87300 Residential care activities for the elderly and disabled
Officers 8 current · 21 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by Sanctuary Housing Association (19059R) — since 2016-06-08
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 7
£1,023,568,000 total awarded value where published.
Showing the 5 most recent of 7.
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Care Quality Commission 84 locations
Regulated by CQC — 3 rated Outstanding, 76 rated Good, 3 rated Requires improvement, 1 rated Inadequate, 1 not yet rated.
All locations and inspection reports are on this provider's CQC page.
Using CQC information, © Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence.
Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2026 (period to 2026-04-01) — 6 years on the registry.
Read the statement summary on the government modern slavery statement registry. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z8561665 (Tier 3), registered since 2004.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Care Inspectorate (Scotland) 15 services
Registered care provider in Scotland — most recent grades between 3 (adequate) and 5 (very good) on the Inspectorate's 6-point scale, 2 not yet graded.
Source: Care Inspectorate Care Services Open Datastore, Open Government Licence — inspection reports on careinspectorate.scot.
Gender pay gap
2.3%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · in the top quarter for parity
Contact details
- Website
- sanctuary-care.co.uk
- Phone
- 08000464822, 08000224200, 08009170478
Sanctuary Care provides a range of care services in over 60 homes across England. We are dedicated to ensuring that our residents live happy and contented lives, full of wonderful experiences and memories. Find out more.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| SANCTUARY CARE SERVICES LIMITED | 2002-04-17 |
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| CHAMBER COURT CASTLE STREET, WORCESTER, WORCESTERSHIRE, WR1 3ZQ, ENGLAND | 2017-02-06 |
| CHAMBER COURT, CASTLE STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 3ZQ | 2016-02-03 |
| CHAMBER COURT, CASTLE STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 3ZQ | 2016-02-03 |
| THE ROTUNDA, 1 OLD LONDON ROAD, HERTFORD, SG13 7XP | 2002-10-08 |
Among its peers
3rd oldest
of 26 similar companies in WR, trading since 2001
The class of 2001
40%
of the 80,159 companies incorporated in 2001 are still active today; 57% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 3 titles
- Leasehold
- 3
- Most recent registration
- 2012-10-25
- Where
- Greater London (3)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TGL370028 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2012-10-25 | — |
| TGL370029 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2012-10-25 | — |
| TGL368473 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2012-09-20 | — |
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