Improving the quality of life of older people across Elmbridge through care, support and lasting impact.
Compassionate Support
in Later Life
Compassion and respect
Dignity and independence
Fairness and integrity
Community and local connection
Walsingham Care is a local charity, based in Walton on Thames, and was created from the proceeds of the sale of The Home of Compassion in Thames Ditton. We provide financial assistance to older people of limited means who live within our defined geographical area of support, currently the Borough of Elmbridge.
Our Charity aims to enhance the lives of older people by providing grants that promote dignity, independence, and well-being. We support initiatives that tackle loneliness, improve health, and create opportunities for older individuals to live fulfilling and connected lives. We pride ourselves on being able to offer such help quickly and efficiently.
We are a grant giving organisation and we can, on occasion, assist by providing grants for:
To improve the quality of life of older people in Elmbridge by providing timely, compassionate financial support where it is most needed.
Older individuals living in Elmbridge who are facing financial hardship for care or support costs, vulnerability, or unexpected challenges.
We award grants to help meet essential needs that support dignity, independence, wellbeing, care and safety in later life.
To alleviate hardship, prevent crisis, and enable older people to live with greater security, comfort, and peace of mind within their own community.
Please visit the relevant section of the website to find information on our application process.
The Trustees of the Home of Compassion, which was 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.
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 a 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 following objective: to make grants or provide other assistance to poor elderly people or to organisations providing assistance to such people.
For further information about the Charity, please see our entry on the Charity Commission website.
Charities House, 1 & 2 The Quintet, Churchfield Road, Walton on Thames, Surrey KT12 2TZ
