Black Swan Care Group acquires Bungay care home

We are pleased to announce the acquisition of All Hallows Care Home in Bungay, Suffolk marking a major strategic investment in local care provision.

Under our ownership, the home will be fully renovated and re-registered as a 42-bedroom care home, with enlarged bedrooms featuring ensuite wetrooms, designed to support people requiring short-term care and longer term support, including people living with dementia.

The home has a long local history and was originally part of the All Hallows Healthcare Trust, before NorseCare Limited bought the home in April 2019. Subsequently, the permanent closure of the home was announced in October 2023 and it has remained closed since then.

Our investment means that the care home will become the Group’s second care home in Suffolk and brings the total number of homes in the group to 24.

The existing building and infrastructure requires substantial refurbishment. This will include enlarging most of the bedrooms at the home to include ensuite WCs and wetrooms, making them fit for purpose in the 21^st Century. Work on these changes will starting imminently, with the aim of reopening the home in the autumn of 2026, subject to formal registration by the Care Quality Commission.

Key features of the new home:

• 42 modern bedrooms, fitted with ensuite WCs and showers to provide accessible, safe and comfortable facilities
• Dedicated areas for residential and dementia care, enabling person-centred support and environments for residents
• Recruitment of over 50 staff and managers across caring, catering, domestic, maintenance and management roles
• Extensive renovations to upgrade the building, including plumbing, electrical, interior finishes, safety systems and communal facilities
• Careful design planning to ensure the facility is future-proof, dementia-friendly and aligned with best practices in care standards

Tom Lyons, the Managing Director of Black Swan Care Group: "We are extremely pleased to share this exciting news about the purchase of All Hallows Care Home. Our goal is to create a special care home that combines high-quality residential care in a warm, homely environment.

“Our closest care home in Beccles, just 5 miles away, has been operating at full capacity with a waiting list, so we know that there is a really high demand for high quality residential care in the local area for older people, including those living with dementia.

“We want to create an environment with excellent standards of care, with supportive staff. In order to deliver that, we will need to recruit a dedicated team of staff. We’ll be hiring more than 50 people in caring, catering, domestic, maintenance and management roles. They will be people who share our passion for delivering the highest quality, compassionate care.

“The home needs significant renovation and refurbishment in order for it to be suitable for supporting people’s care needs in the 21^st century. We will start work quickly, aiming to open the home in the autumn of 2026.”