Churchill Living
- Churchill Living Ltd is a British company that builds housing for older people.
- It started in 1994 as Emlor Homes in New Milton, Hampshire, founded by Spencer and Clinton McCarthy. Spencer had worked at McCarthy & Stone, a company his father John McCarthy helped found.
- At first they built general housing, but by 2001 they focused on retirement apartments and renamed the business Churchill Retirement Living in 2003.
- By the mid-2010s it had become one of the UK’s largest private retirement housing providers.
- It won the WhatHouse? Housebuilder of the Year award in 2016 and was named the 3rd Best Company to work for in the UK in 2020 (Sunday Times).
- In July 2024, the company shortened its name to Churchill Living.
- Churchill Living develops private one- and two-bedroom apartments and cottages for older homeowners, with an average move-in age around 80. Developments typically have 30–40 homes and include a lounge, gardens, and a lodge manager’s office, plus a 24-hour emergency call system.
- The business is vertically integrated, handling site acquisition, design, construction, sale of leasehold homes, and ongoing property management. Each development has a lodge manager and an in-house estate agency to help with resale or letting. The company operates from a Ringwood, Hampshire headquarters and has five regional offices across England.
- In 2015 it established the Churchill Foundation, a charitable trust led by Dame Esther Rantzen, funding youth homelessness and healthcare charities. In 2025 it began a charity partnership with Hourglass, focusing on safer aging and protecting older people from abuse.
- Churchill Living also runs several subsidiary divisions and has earned various awards.
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