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Stories of Care: Celebrating the extraordinary people in social care
Every day, across care homes, services and communities, extraordinary things are happening quietly and consistently. Moments of kindness. Leadership rooted in compassion. Teams holding people and families through the most human experiences of their lives.
Too often, the conversation focuses on the challenges - staffing pressures, funding gaps, burnout. These issues are real, but every day, care teams create moments of kindness, leadership and humanity that deserve more recognition.
Here's to recognising and sharing the people who make care meaningful!
Anoushka Farouk, Creator of Stories of Care
The Stories of Care ❤️
Karim Nanji, Owner, Southcare Homes Group
I am passionate about people coming into my care homes to live, not to die.
Sanjeev and Minal Chowdhri, Owners, Acacia HomeCare
When we recruit, we always say we can train people to provide care and meet standards. But we can’t train someone to care.
Samir Patel, Founder, Care Home DigiHive
Curiosity. The best carers I've ever met want to understand the person in front of them, not just deliver a task.
Mark Topps, Co-Founder, The Caring View
You don’t need to be the smartest or most experienced. You just need the desire to make a difference.
Cheryll Champion, Head of Innovation, Quality and Compliance, LDC Care
The ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes. To listen. To place another person’s needs ahead of your own. No other career brings the same joy.
Palvi and Jay Dodhia, Directors, Serene Care
Kindness builds culture. Culture builds stability. Stability builds great care.
Tushar Shah, Director, Centrum Group
The interactions he saw weren’t transactional. They were deeply human. Moments of trust, relief, humour and connection unfolding in real time.
Hayley Robertshaw, CEO, St. Martin's Care
It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It will feed your soul and break your heart in equal measure.
Laura Gardiner, Registered Manager, Freeways
Don’t do it for the money. Do it for the amazing feeling when you help someone reach for the stars. Do it for the memories you help create.
Hannah Reseigh-Lincoln, Support Worker, Aston Care
Other than providing for my family, my main motivation is to support people to live happy and independent lives. I see the impact every day.
Dan Bridges, Regional Director, Avery Healthcare
Our sector is full of unsung heroes; people who change lives every single day, often without recognition.
Carly Rochester, Co-Founder, ME Passport
The people are what motivate me. Care workers who turn up day after day. Families navigating difficult moments. Individuals determined to stay independent in their own homes.
Sophie Chester Glyn, Founder & Director, Manor Community/CoProduce CIC
I’m probably not a typical businessperson; my focus has always been the care first. The rest has to follow that.
Ben Miller, Registered Mental Health Nurse, Cornerstone Care Solutions
“I’ll show you,” he remembers thinking. Not with arrogance, but with resolve. It became the beginning of something.
Prash Patel, Entrepreneur & Care Sector Leader
It’s not just rewarding, it’s transformative. There’s room to grow, to lead, to innovate and to make lives better every single day.
Lauren Wraight, Operations Director, LDC Care
That was the moment. Once I could see what care really was, I knew I wanted to be in this sector.
Aneil Manhoman, Head Chef, Hamberley Care Homes
It doesn’t feel like a workplace. It feels like a home where everyone belongs.
Jayne Kinsella, Head of Quality & Compliance, Sylvian Care
You may be the only human being someone speaks to all day. That’s a privileged position.
Kevin Humphrys, CEO, Oakland Care Group
That’s the transformation I set out to achieve – not just better operations, but a place people want to work, caring for people who truly feel cared for.
