Bank-backed care home to create jobs

Up to 100 new full and part-time jobs are to be created in East Yorkshire at a new care home being developed with financial support from Yorkshire Bank.

Construction work starts this month on the new £4.15m care home on Magdalen Lane, Hedon, which has gained funding through Yorkshire Bank’s Business and Private Banking Centre in Hull.

The new home, which will provide nursing and specialist dementia care for 54 residents, is being developed by family-run care home business, Yorkare Homes, and is expected to open in August 2014.

This new funding from Yorkshire Bank follows its provision of £3.9m to build the 64-bed Westfield Park Nursing Home which opened earlier this year creating an initial 25 new jobs.

Yorkare Homes Ltd was founded in 1987 by husband and wife, John and Evonne Garton, with the acquisition of The Elms Residential Home, in Sutton, Hull.

They built up a portfolio of five homes throughout East Yorkshire before the group was bought out in 2008.

The couple then restarted a care home business the following year with their sons Jonathan and Laurence, who had graduated from university and together opened their first family venture with Westfield Park Care Home in Goole.

Laurence Garton, Yorkare Homes development director, said: “Our new care home in Hedon will have the most modern facilities for nursing and dementia care available. We have also gained planning permission for an adjacent 40-bed home which will enable us to create a stand-alone specialist dementia care centre.

“We are very pleased to start building work. The demographics of an ageing population, and the changing nature of the care of older people, means that there is a significant and continuing demand for modern facilities.”