An imaginative scheme to provide three Neighbourhood Resource Centres for the older people of
Greenwich has won a top award.
The new Resource Centres scooped ‘Best Operational Local Government Project’ in this year’s Public: Private Finance Awards at a special ceremony held at London’s Grosvenor Hotel on 23rd May.
The successful centres, which are managed by Sanctuary Care on behalf of Greenwich Council are the result of a consultation process which found that traditional residential care was unlikely to meet the local community’s future needs.
London Borough of Greenwich Council began work on its own model, the Neighbourhood Resource Centres (NRCs) to provide a range of residential, nursing, intermediate and day services on a single site, seven days a week. After a bidding process the council commissioned the ASK consortium (comprising Ashley Homes, which was subsequently acquired by Sanctuary Housing Group, and Kier Project Investments) to provide all three resource centres at a cost of £24m. All were delivered ahead of schedule.