Walsingham Care: Our History
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The trustees of the Home of Compassion which is a local charitable Church Foundation ran a local nursing home by
the river in Thames Ditton from 1981 until the building was sold to a private nursing home operator in September 2008.

The Home had served as a Nursing Home for more than
100 years after Anglican Nuns of the Order of the Sisters
of Compassion of Jesus brought their work with the poor
and elderly from the East End of London to Thames Ditton
in Surrey. They took in elderly people who were ill and had nowhere else to go.

The Church took over the administration in 1980 following
the demise of the Nuns and appointed local trustees under the patronage of the Bishop of Guildford to run the Charity.
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The main house by the river is a Georgian style building which hides a much older house built in 1792 by Charlotte Boyle Walsingham hence the name of the Charity. The old house was used and adapted for over 100 years in Cottage Hospital
style with up to 50 beds for the frail elderly but the trustees, despite a long struggle, were unable to raise the capital to modernise the Home to the latest Care standards required by Government. With the agreement of The Charity Commission, the trustees sold the Home to a private care company and used the proceeds to set up a new local charitable fund to give grants under the name Walsingham Care with the objectives.

1. To assist elderly people in particular by providing care residential and health services.

2. To make grants or provide other assistance to poor elderly people or to organisations providing assistance to such people.

Details of the support available can be found by downloading the form from this Website.
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