England's largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for older people
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24-hour personal and practical support provided by well-trained, caring staff Find out moreOur passion at Anchor is giving older people a choice of great places and ways to live.
Our impressive range of services are designed to help you live life your way, and by staying true to our values we’re proud to say that we’ve become the largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for older people in England.
Our merger
We’ve merged with Hanover to form Anchor Hanover, the largest provider of specialist housing and care for people in later life in England.
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Retirement villages
Anchor retirement villages offer a range of luxury retirement properties and state-of-the-art leisure facilities set in the beautiful surroundings of a rural village development.
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Care homes
With 50 years of experience, Anchor is an established and trusted not-for-profit care home provider with more than 100 residential homes across the country.
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Properties for sale
Anchor’s leasehold retirement properties offer you the opportunity to own your perfect home with peace of mind that maintenance of the building and grounds will be taken care of.
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Properties for rent
Anchor’s retirement properties for rent offer affordable housing options at more than 660 locations across the country, providing you with a wealth of choice.
The right home for you, now and into the future
We offer a wealth of purpose-built options for your next home, from affordable rented housing to spacious leasehold apartments and luxury retirement villages. Our retirement housing is all designed to offer you a sense of community, security, independence and peace of mind.
What could my new home be like?
Anchor’s retirement properties for sale offer you the opportunity to own your perfect home. Ranging from quiet cul-de-sacs to award-winning luxury estates, each Anchor retirement development is unique; however all share the same high standard of construction, responsive management and total commitment to quality customer service.
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Affordable housing options
Our retirement properties for rent offer affordable housing options at more than 660 locations across the country and provide you with a wealth of choice. Our rental properties include purpose-built and well maintained studio flats, one, two or three-bedroom properties as well as bungalows.
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A trusted care home provider
We are also a well established and trusted care home provider with more than 100 care homes across the country offering older people personally tailored residential and dementia care every day.
Our insight and reputation are built on 50 years' experience, we are committed to providing all of the older people living with us, whatever their needs, with exactly the right level of support to get the best out of life.
Personally tailored residential care
At Anchor we offer personally tailored residential care within the warm, safe and friendly surroundings of our care homes. Our 24-hour personal and practical support is provided by well-trained, caring staff and is designed to ensure you continue to enjoy maximum independence as well as peace of mind, knowing that help is always at hand.
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Specialist dementia care
We recognise a person living with dementia is, first and foremost, a person – unique and with a rich history of experiences, abilities, skills, knowledge, preferences, desires and personality. We respond to the individual and support what they can do with a personalised care plan, always looking for opportunities to build on their strengths and abilities.
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Building on relationships
At Anchor we work hard to get to know the people living with us, build relationships and ensure the service we provide is the one that people want.
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New retirement property developments
Our ambitious and innovative new development plans demonstrate our commitment to meeting the changing needs and aspirations of older people.
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Not-for-profit
First and foremost Anchor Hanover is a not-for-profit charitable organisation. Find out more.
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Meeting your changing needs
Anchor understands the challenges we all face as we get older. As a valued customer you can be assured that should your needs change in future we will be on hand to offer you help and advice.
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Diversity
Anchor ensures that dignity, equality and justice are central to the way we work, and that the distinctive, diverse and unique contributions of our employees and customers are valued.
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Anchor Hanover’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans group
Our Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Trans (LGBT) Group aims to tackle concerns that moving into sheltered housing or a care home as an older LGBT+ person may be a lonely or isolating experience.
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Language support service
Anchor utilizes the skills of our diverse workforce to provide a language support service to help improve communication with our customers who don’t speak English as a first language.
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Pet friendly
At Anchor we recognise that pets provide companionship, comfort and love, and therefore have a ‘pet friendly’ policy that covers all of our rented retirement housing and care homes.