About Allegra Care

Allegra Care are redefining care in the UK. Operating high quality nursing, dementia and care homes, our mission is to set new benchmarks in home-from-home comfort, inclusive community and person-centred care. With individuality, privacy and dignity at the heart of our ethos, we seek to operate welcoming care homes where a profound sense of belonging and personal wellbeing are shared by residents and staff alike.

Allegra Care is part of Seniors Living Group, and sister business to extra care operator Amicala.

Our company

As a progressive care operator, we’re establishing a family of quality homes across central and southern England. Not only following, but leading the latest thinking in healthcare practice, we’re committed to elevating standards, experiences and expectations. In so doing, we aim to change the way that we, as a nation, think about caring for our elderly and our disabled

What care do we provide?

All Allegra Care homes provide dedicated residential nursing care, with respite, long term and end-of-life provisions. From elegant period properties to modern, purpose-built homes, each has its own unique character, but all offer Allegra’s progressive and compassionate care model. Selected homes also deliver additional specialist care, such as dementia, aggressive behaviours, wandering with purpose and young physically disabled care.

Dementia care

Safe, secure and stimulating environments are the foundation of exceptional dementia care. Dedicated dementia households provide comfort, companionship and security, supported by compassionate care for residents and their families.

Nursing care

All of our residents and their families can feel secure in the person-centred care offered 24/7 by our experienced team - care that prioritises the individual’s dignity, privacy and independence.

End-of-life care

Supported by highly trained nursing staff, our End of Life care sensitively delivers specialist pain and symptom management, assisting residents and their families through the process with profound compassion and humanity.

Short stay

From giving loved ones respite from the routine of daily homecare to providing the perfect environment for recuperation after a hospital stay, all Allegra homes offer flexible short term options.

Young physically disabled

Practical and professional care for 18-65 year olds with a wide range of physical and learning disabilities and conditions, and enhanced with a varied programme of life-enriching activities and excursions.

Wandering with purpose

Our Wandering with Purpose households enable residents to continue with meaningful tasks in a safe, supportive environment, so they can enjoy pottering around and getting involved with everyday activities.

Behaviours that Challenge

Sensitive, empathetic care for those who have Behaviours that Challenge, through dementia. Characterised by calm, patience and understanding, highly specialised care that provides essential time, space and compassion around the clock.

Residential care

Providing residential care that positively enhances the quality of life, all our homes offer safe, secure and comfortable environments that promote the physical, psychological and emotional wellbeing of every resident.

Executive team

Our executive team brings together a wealth of operational, financial and commercial expertise. A group of highly experienced individuals collaborating to pool talent and knowledge from the healthcare, property and finance sectors. A team that shares a vision for a care sector that’s fit for purpose and ready for the changes - and the challenges - that lie ahead.

Helen Jones

Chief Executive Officer

Helen had a 20 year career in the Australian care and senior living sector before transferring to the UK in 2017. In the senior living sector Helen has held the senior roles of General Manager for Tricare Nursing Homes (1,200 Residents), Chief Operations Officer for Domain Principal Group (5,000 Residents) and Executive for Strategy, Standards and Service Development with Australian Unity Independent and Extra Care (3,000 residents, 55,000 home care clients). Helen has undertaken global research to shape her award winning residential care service model. Helen was the first aged care recipient of the Endeavour Executive Australia Award, and is a Board member of the Common Age Association, a charitable organisation focused on improving aged care standards in all Commonwealth countries.
Helen is a Director of Seniors Living Group and Chief Operations Officer of Allegra’s sister business Amicala.

Henry Lumby

Executive Director

Henry was formerly Head of Retirement Living at Savills. In that role he advised many of the leading UK extra care, assisted living and retirement developers and operators, as well as advising investors and new entrants. Henry in addition advised think tanks, policy bodies and industry groups. Prior to this role Henry was a partner for a retirement and care home developer / operator in Southern England. Over the course of his 20 year career in property, Henry has worked across the senior living sector.
Henry is a Director of Seniors Living Group and Chief Development Officer of Allegra’s sister business Amicala.

Michael Davies

Chief Financial Officer

Michael has spent the last 7 years in the senior living sector and has 30 years’ experience in the finance sector. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant at KPMG. He was formerly Head of Group Mergers and Acquisitions at UBS, having started his career at Morgan Grenfell in London. Michael has been involved in a wide range of corporate advisory assignments, including IPOs and restructurings.
Michael is a Director of Seniors Living Group and Chief Financial Officer of Allegra’s sister business, Amicala.

Paul Spence

Chairman

Paul has spent the last 7 years in the senior living sector and has 30 years of management experience. He was a partner at Q Street Capital and co-owner of Matrix Alternative Asset Management. He began his career at Barclays Capital, where he was Deputy Head of Equities Trading globally and Head of Equity and Derivatives Trading at BZW Japan.
Paul is Chairman of Seniors Living Group and Chief Executive Officer of Allegra’s sister business Amicala.

Mark Horton

Non-Executive Director

Mark Horton joined Slaughter and May in 1979, having read law at Cambridge University. He practiced as a corporate Partner for over 30 years, based mainly in London. In Hong Kong he was head of the firm’s China practice and also served as a Council Member of the Hong Kong Law Society. For many years, he led both the firm’s Government practice as well as its infrastructure, energy and natural resources (IEN) group. He was seconded to the Brexit unit within HM Treasury in 2016, before retiring from the firm in 2018.

Mark is an investor in, and director of, private companies operating in a number of different business sectors. He became a Board member of Allegra Care in 2020.

STRONG INVESTMENT BACKING

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Allegra Care work in partnership with a leading UK real estate fund manager with specialist expertise in the senior living sector since 2008. Building on a £125m initial investment, we have a strong and committed investment partner with an environmental, social and governance focus that aligns closely with our own. Together, we aim to create a portfolio of modern, fit-for-purpose nursing and dementia homes across central and southern England.

Leadership team

Our leadership team comprises a group of highly experienced healthcare professionals with extensive track records in the care sector - both in the UK and internationally. Well-versed in all operational aspects of care home management, human resources and collaborative continuous improvement, the team play a central role in realising Allegra Care’s corporate objectives.

Alison Bruce

Regional Manager

Alison undertook her nursing training at St Bartholomews Hospital in London before working for two years in Saudi Arabia. Returning to the UK, she held a number of nursing posts before assuming the role of Manager at New Forest Nursing Home. Her role and responsibilities expanded in 1996, becoming Director of Care for Sentinel Health Care’s homes in Hampshire. Subsequently, with Allegra Care’s acquisition of the Sentinel group in 2021, she became Regional Manager, continuing to oversee the day to day operations of all five homes across the New Forest and environs. Passionate about caring for the elderly, Alison is dedicated to upholding the very highest standards of care and service delivered by Allegra Care.

Jane Gidman

Operations Manager

Qualifying as a nurse in 1988, Jane’s subsequent career has encompassed a wide breadth of care, operational and customer service skills, which she now brings to her role as Operations Manager for Allegra Care. She has extensive experience in critical care, where she worked as a nurse until 2001, returning recently to a local hospital Intensive Therapy Unit to work on an ad hoc basis. Between these spells in critical care, Jane specialised in international case management and repatriation, heading up a 24/7 international assistance team, where she acquired extensive operational and management experience. Combined, this unique skillset and blend of expertise enables Jane to offer a strategic perspective across every facet of Allegra Care’s operations and development.

James Sales

Regional Manager

Recently celebrating his 40th year working in the care sector, James brings a wealth of experience to his role as Allegra Care’s Regional Manager in East Anglia. His career spans care in a range of settings and sectors, with his initial training as a nurse leading on to a variety of roles throughout 20 years’ service in the NHS. James is passionate about elderly care and shares Allegra Care’s dedication to person-centred care delivery, ensuring that every aspect is tailored to each individual’s specific needs. In his free time, he will most likely be found walking in his beloved countryside, faithful four legged companion in tow.

Tim Hazael

Financial Controller

With a 14-year track record in the healthcare sector, working as financial controller for four multi-site care home groups, Tim is a highly experienced finance professional. From acquisitions and disposals to diversification and a de-merger, he brings a wealth of corporate change experience to his role with Allegra Care, working closely with executive management and shareholders of privately-owned residential care groups. His wide-ranging remit has seen him acquire and cultivate a diverse skillset, including systems integration and process implementation and development. A self-confessed lover of spreadsheets, Tim is dedicated to helping people understand the story the numbers are telling. In his time off, he enjoys walking and cycling in the Surrey Hills with his family, whilst his fascination with history has seen him recently learn Hebrew.

Lynne Hargett

Regional Accounts Manager

After many years’ commuting daily to work in London’s Regent Street, Lynne joined the team at New Forest Nursing Home in 2008. In her capacity as Regional Accounts Manager for Allegra Care, she oversees all accounts and administrative functions and enjoys a long-standing working relationship with her established team, most of whom have also been in post for many years. Her primary focus is helping people, from residents and their families, to suppliers and the company’s many commercial and business partners.