The Forest Healthcare group, a network of 13 private care centres, is marking its standout success in the annual CareHome.co.uk awards, widely considered the most prestigious and acclaimed awards event in the care home sector.
Award recipients are selected based on real-world feedback and rating scores submitted by residents and their loved ones. The network scooped its sixth consecutive award as a Top 20 Mid-Size Care Home Group, and two individual care centres were named Top 20 Care Homes.
The Background of the CareHome.co.uk Awards
CareHome.co.uk is the largest and most established directory and review forum specifically created for care homes in the UK. It invites care recipients, families, and those with real-world experience working with each care centre to provide scores, feedback, and commentary.
Designed to help prospective care recipients analyse the quality of care home services and make comparisons, reviews include overall scores out of five and ratings based on particular elements of the care home, such as safety and cleanliness, staff and management, and the value and standards of care received.
The directory’s awards ceremony is a notable event in the care home industry and celebrates innovation and excellence, with awards presented at a prestigious ceremony at the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington, London. It aims to recognise and acknowledge the best care homes based on regions and the size of care home groups.
Celebrating Forest Healthcare’s Award-Winning Care Home Services
While Forest Healthcare is no stranger to the awards and has long been a sector-leading network that has been named a Top 20 group for multiple consecutive years, the 2025 ceremony was a real reason for celebration, with three awards granted, including:
Forest Healthcare: Top 20 Mid-Size Care Home Group
Belmont Lodge: Top 20 Care Home in the East of England
The Grange Care Centre: Top 20 Care Home in South-East England
The fact that the awards are based on authenticated, independent reviews, without nominations on any other basis, is a matter of pride for every award winner, with the acknowledgement that their services, support, and assistance are highly rated by both residents and the family members who come into contact with care teams.
Forest Healthcare is a family of care homes that operates based on a series of values, including choice, empathy, support, and respect—which are borne out in the high volumes of top-mark reviews shared by care recipients.
Belmont Lodge, in Chigwell and recently accredited as part of the Veteran Friendly Framework, and The Grange Care Centre in Faringdon both sustain an impressive 10/10 rating through the directory. Reviews comment on the 'happy, friendly staff', the 'dignity and good food', and that residents receive 'outstanding care' and are 'entertained daily'.
Forest Healthcare’s Sixth Consecutive Top 20 Care Group Title
Winning the accolade of a Top 20 Mid-Size Care Group is, in itself, an achievement, but what makes this honour all the more remarkable is that Forest Healthcare has maintained this title over an astonishing six years, being named an award-winner every year since 2020.
This meaningful achievement reflects Forest Healthcare's dedication to high-quality care, compassionate support, and enriching, varied, and personalised routines that ensure residents and loved ones receiving support through any of the group's 13 care centres not only feel satisfied with their care but are compelled to share their experiences.
Speaking on behalf of the group, Chief Executive Officer of Forest Healthcare, Amanda Scott, said, ‘Achieving such a valued award once is, of course, something to celebrate, but we are committed to being recognised as a top care provider over the long term and are delighted to have maintained this enviable position.
We would like to express our enormous thanks to our wonderful residents and their families who went out of their way to publish reviews, rate our services so highly, and add context about the impact respectful care makes to them and their loved ones.
It is fantastic to see seven individual care centres with a perfect 10/10 score, and we are delighted to celebrate the achievements of both Belmont Lodge and The Grange Care Centre, whose in-house management teams and care professionals achieved the status of being a Top 20 Care Home in their respective regions.’
Further information about the CareHome.co.uk awards, Forest Healthcare group, and the two award-winning care centres can be found on the company's website or via the directory.
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About Forest Healthcare
Forest Healthcare is an established care provider dedicated to consistently delivering an outstanding quality of life to the residents they serve. With a network of care centres across South-East England, Forest Healthcare specialises in catering to a wide range of care requirements, including; residential, nursing, dementia and specialist care. The organisation’s mission is to provide a family feel to the exceptional care they deliver by valuing, respecting and caring for each and every person who lives and works at Forest Healthcare.
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