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Audley Retirement (trading name of Audley Court Ltd) is a leading property builder and manager within the UK retirement community industry. Operating from its central office in Surrey, it currently owns and manages eleven sites across the UK, with a twelfth in development. Audley Retirement is backed by Moorfield Investments. It currently employs more than 300 people.

Company history


The company was founded in 1983 under the name Beaumont Healthcare, by current chief executive Nick Sanderson and business partner Dr Andrew MacDonald. Beaumont opened the UK's first private-sector, purpose-built care home in 1984, and by 1988 had 12 care homes in its portfolio. Beaumont launched Close Care in 1988; houses for sale adjacent to its care communities, allowing independent living with care and hotel services.

In 1990, Beaumont was acquired by PPP (Private Patients Plan), a health insurer, now part of the AXA Group. In its current form, Audley Retirement was founded by Sanderson in 1991 with the aim of developing the concept of lifestyle- and facility-focussed retirement homes with in-built care services, in partnership with the care sector. Over time, Sanderson developed the conventional care home concept in the UK into the retirement village model that Audley Retirement now uses.

Between 1991 and 1998, Audley developed 30 sites in partnership with housing associations and local authorities, before beginning to develop the retirement community concept that today forms its primary service.

ARCO
In 1998, Audley joined up with other organisations in the retirement village industry, to form the Association of Retirement Village Operators UK (ARVOUK). Its purpose was representing the retirement community sector in the UK. Today, ARVOUK is known as the Associated Retirement Community Operators (ARCO).

ARCO members are required to follow the ARCO Code of Practice

Locations
Audley Retirement's head office is based in Staines-upon-Thames, with its villages spread across England:

•	Audley Willicombe Park – Opened in 1999, Willicombe Park is located in Royal Tunbridge Wells and centred on a Victorian villa.

•	Audley Hollins Hall – Opened in 2000, Hollins Hall is located in Yorkshire, a few miles from Harrogate town centre. Hollins Hall was once the home of the Tetley family.

•	Audley Flete House – In 2005 Audley acquired Flete House, a Grade I listed mansion located near Ivybridge in Devon.

•	Audley Clevedon – Opened in 2009, Clevedon is located in the village of Ben Rhydding by the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, near Ilkley. Clevedon House has been restored from the previous Victorian schoolhouse for boys.

•	Audley St Elphin’s Park – Opened in 2012, St Elphin’s Park is located within the Derbyshire Dales in Darley Dale. St Elphin’s House has been restored from the previous Victorian schoolhouse St Elphin's School for girls.

•	Audley Mote House – Opened in 2012, Mote House is located within Mote Park, a multi-use public park in Maidstone, near Bearsted. Mote House is a Grade II* listed Georgian mansion.

•	Audley Inglewood – Opened in 2013, Inglewood is located in Kintbury, Berkshire.

•	Audley Binswood – Opened in 2014, Binswood is located in Royal Leamington Spa. Binswood Hall is a Grade II* listed Victorian Gothic property.

•	Audley Chalfont Dene – Currently being built, Chalfont Dene is located in the Chiltern Hills in Chalfont St Peter.

•	Audley St George’s Place – Currently being built, St George’s Place is located in Edgbaston and was previously the home of the Royal School for the Deaf.

Audley Club
Each retirement village has a central building containing the Audley Club, which is home to various community facilities and open for public use. While open to non-residents, users of the Clubs must be Audley Club members aged over 55.