Our Partners

In addition to our volunteers, and the residents themselves, the key community partners who help to make Nonsuch Abbeyfield successful are:

•  Our residents' families and sponsors
•  St Andrew's URC
•  St Paul's Church Sutton
•  Our local council
•  The Abbeyfield Society

Families and sponsors
When a new resident is accepted into Abbeyfield, a “sponsor” accepts responsibility for organising and facilitating the resident's affairs in the event of the resident becoming seriously ill or requiring more personal care than can be provided by Nonsuch Abbeyfield. For most residents, their sponsor is a member of their family.

Our residents' families and sponsors are critical to their health, welfare and happiness during their stay with Abbeyfield. Families and sponsors are involved in helping to prepare and support the resident through the difficult process of “letting go” of their own homes and getting settled in their new accommodation. Thereafter, their continuing love and support helps the resident find a new peace of mind amongst familiar possessions and a new community of friends.

Sometimes families and sponsors have to work with their resident to help them face up to changing circumstances. This may lead to their having to move on to a residential care or nursing home.

Such continuity and consistency of support from people a resident knows well helps us to ensure that the resident gets the most from his or her stay with Abbeyfield. Our volunteers and staff work closely with families and sponsors to ensure that everyone's efforts are in the best interests of the resident.

St Andrew's URC www.standrews-cheam.org.uk
St Andrew's United Reformed Church is a few hundred yards and a mile away from our York Road and Mulgrave Road houses, respectively. The Society was set up by the members of the congregation of St Andrew's URC over 30 years ago and its committees and volunteers have always included a high proportion of St Andrew's members.

Most of the Society's achievements have been conceived, executed and celebrated in partnership with the St Andrew's community and, for the last six years, the Society has sponsored a Chaplain for Older people in partnership with St Andrew's. Many of our residents have chosen to become members of St Andrew's during their stay at Abbeyfield.

The Society is and has always been enormously appreciative of the continuing support and friendship of the St Andrew's congregation, and of the energy and innovation that has invariably flowed from this very special relationship.

St Paul's Church Sutton www.saintpauls.co.uk

During 2007 the Pastoral Director of St Paul's Church Sutton has been helping us to build a partnership between the volunteer community of Nonsuch Abbeyfield and the members of the congregation of St Paul's. Both organisations hope to derive benefit from this partnership in the years ahead.

Our local councils www.sutton.gov.uk and www.epsom-ewell.gov.uk

Our Sutton and Cheam houses are located administratively within the London Borough of Sutton and our Ewell house within the Epsom and Ewell Borough Council. Whilst some of our residents are able to meet our charges from their own resources, others have recourse to the support available from the local council through Housing Benefit and “Supporting People” arrangements. Nonsuch Abbeyfield has been accredited as a provider of sheltered accommodation for which Supporting People grants are available.

Abbeyfield does not get involved in the financial affairs of current or prospective residents. However, we have members of our team who are conversant with the Supporting People arrangements and the responsible LBS officers. They can signpost applicants and their families/sponsors accordingly.

The Abbeyfield Society www.abbeyfield.com
Nonsuch Abbeyfield is an affiliated member of The Abbeyfield Society, a national umbrella organisation for a national network of Abbeyfield homes. Some of these homes are owned by Abbeyfield UK a national provider of sheltered and care accommodation. Others are owned by local independent affiliates, like Nonsuch Abbeyfield, which are governed and managed locally, but operated in accordance with standards promulgated and monitored by The Abbeyfield Society.

Nonsuch Abbeyfield pays and affiliation fee annually to The Abbeyfield Society, for which it secures an entitlement to enjoy the benefits of the national brand and access to knowledge and networks of good practice.

Nonsuch Abbeyfield is a not for profit organisation. We are affiliated to The Abbeyfield Society, but are independent and run our own affairs. Regulators: Industrial and Provident Society 21620R; Housing Corporation H2118 Office: The Old House, Mongers Lane, Epsom Road, Ewell, Surrey KT17 1JZ