Care home project receives funding boost
ALMOST 100 full and part-time jobs are set to be created thanks to the construction of a £5m care home in South Yorkshire.
Care home operator Silk Healthcare is to develop the purpose-built 83-bed care home in Mapplewell, Barnsley.
The facility is being funded by Royal Bank of Scotland and the Government’s Regional Growth Fund.
Mapplewell Manor will be a new residential care home and senior centre specialising in dementia care and is set to open its doors in February 2013.
A funding package has been secured to support the construction of the new care home which consists of loan facilities arranged by Maxine Gay from RBS’s healthcare team, and £500,000 of RGF cash.
Leeds-based Silk Healthcare is a family run business established by Angela Swift in 2009 after the opening of the firm’s first care home, Reuben Manor.
Mapplewell Manor will be Silk Healthcare’s third care home in addition to Reuben Manor in Teesside and Heather Grange in Burnley.
A fourth home is also planned for construction in Colne, Lancashire next year.
Ms Swift, managing director of Silk Healthcare, said: “We are very excited about the construction of Mapplewell Manor and work is underway after the demolition of the previous Greenside Care Home.
“We are looking forward to expected completion in February 2013 and bringing not only superb facilities and care to elderly residents but new job creation to the Barnsley area.”
