Organic growth

Heading east along East Street there is a care home on the northern side of the road, just before one gets to the first turning into Ewell Village. A care home which I believe to have been run by a church flavoured charity, with a name something to do with sunshine.

A care home which has now been taken over by Abbeyfield. Presumably this involved some lawyer work to transfer the assets of the one charitable trust to the other.

An Abbeyfield which seems to be growing, and to be doing rather more than converting older houses into quality bed-sit houses for people wanting something between their own homes and a care home. Perhaps they are drifting into the mainstream and have got themselves onto some list of organisations deemed worthy to take government money for the provision of accommodation more generally for older people. Perhaps it is only right, proper and reasonable that charities that prosper should expand in this sort of way, quite possibly at the expense of those which are failing, for one reason or another.

PS: I have noticed that the sun is often worked into the names or logos of places which look after or otherwise care for the very old. With sunshine being preferred to sunset.

Reference 1: https://www.abbeyfield.com/. Established in 1956 by the late Richard Carr-Gomm, OBE.

Reference 2: http://www.carrgomm.org/. For a slightly different story from Scotland.