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What is Retirement Accommodation?Tenant talking to a scheme manager

The Vale Housing Association offers a range of purpose-built accommodation for the over-60’s. All our accommodation is self-contained, so you can enjoy your own flat with your own front door.  This type of accommodation means you can continue to enjoy your independence and your privacy is respected at all times.
Our retirement accommodation receives the benefit of a 24-hour scheme manager service. Scheme managers help you to live independently in your home: they are not there to provide direct care, but they can help you to contact other organisations, fill in forms, or contact a doctor or family if you are ill.  When you move in, you will agree with them how often they should visit you; this is a flexible system which can change if you need more or fewer visits as time goes on.  All our retirement properties are automatically fitted with a Vale Care Link alarm which you can use to summon help in an emergency.
With a dedicated maintenance service and tended, landscaped gardens, our schemes take away the worry of managing your own property and leave you free to make the most of your retirement.
We have available, or a short waiting list for, properties in Faringdon, Wantage, Abingdon and many surrounding villages. 

How do I find out more?

To find out more about retirement accommodation, or to enquiry about vacancies or joining our waiting list, please contact:
For Abingdon/Botley/Marcham area
Frances Daly 01235 536001
Email: abingdon@vale-housing.co.uk
For Wantage/Grove/Faringdon
Mary Cummings 01235 760007
Email: wantage@vale-housing.co.uk

Where do we own retirement accommodation?

Faringdon

Oakwood HouseOakwood House

Oakwood House offers one-bedroom flats in a quiet area of Faringdon.  The scheme is surrounded by a small maintained garden and offers a variety of facilities such as a laundry, residents lounge and a communal kitchen. 
Residents of this scheme can benefit from an Age Concern social day centre which takes place in the lounge downstairs, and there are a variety of social events organised by the residents on offer.  The Faringdon Community Bus also regularly stops at the scheme en-route to the town centre and doctors surgery.

Brackendale

This is a scheme of 28 one-bedroom and studio flats, benefitting from a laundry and lounge for residents, situated in a quiet road in Faringdon, a short walk from the town centre. This scheme has excellent parking facilities and residents organise a range of social activities.  Again, it is served by the Faringdon Community Bus which calls here on its way to the town centre and doctors surgery.

Grove

Grovelands Court

This scheme contains 28 one-bedroom flats.  The corridors and communal areas are exceptionally spacious, light and airy, and there is a residents lounge, laundry room and guest room, as well as very pleasant gardens. It is within walking distance of a small shopping area which includes a supermarket and café

St. John

St John’s Court is also in Grove, and offers a variety of facilities such as a laundry, residents’ lounge and guest room. The rooms are a mixture of spacious studio flats and one-bedroom flats.  The location is quiet and secluded, with attractive herb gardens immediately outside, but is within a short walk of the Millbrook shopping area, churches and a bus route to locations such as Wantage, Abingdon and Oxford.

Abingdon

Fountain Court

Fountain Court contains one-bed flats and is situated in North Abingdon, within walking distance of a bus route into the town centre and Oxford. It has recently had a make-over of its courtyard which is now a lovely garden spot for residents to relax. A lounge, laundry room and guest room are also available there.

Botley

Field House

Field House is situated in a convenient location within easy reach of local facilities such as shops, churches, dentists and doctors.  It is also very close to bus routes serving Oxford city centre and other locations. The scheme has a pretty courtyard garden, laundry room and residents’ lounge, where regular social activities take place.  A day centre and church service take place within the complex.  There are 65 one and two-bedroom flats.

Wantage

Maude House Maude House

Maude House is in a quiet part of Wantage, with pleasant surroundings. Residents can make use of the communal lounge, laundry room and guest room. There are also regular social events within the scheme.  The flats are mainly one-bedroom, with some studio flats.  

Marcham

Duffield Place

Duffield Place offers residents a lounge, laundry room and kitchen as well as a shared garden with opportunities for gardening. It is near a bus route and therefore has easy access to Abingdon and Oxford. A range of social activities are on offer for residents.