Care home · Kensington and Chelsea
Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue
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- 1 St Quintin Avenue, London, W10 6NX
- Run by
- Support for Living Limited (12 services)
- Service
- Residential care home
- Beds
- 6 (registered with CQC)
- Registered with CQC
- October 2012 (14 years)
- Part of
- Certitude
- Registered manager
- Shamsuddin Said Ahmed Burug
- Company check
- Active, accounts up to date (Companies House IP27062R)
- Last CQC check
- 2 Feb 2026
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,450–£1,780 a week for residential care. Estimated from prices published locally; not a quote. How we estimate
Registered to provide: Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care
CQC page for this service · CQC location ID 1-485031555
About Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue
Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue in Kensington and Chelsea is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a residential care home, run by Support for Living Limited. The service is registered to support adults of all ages and lists physical disabilities, learning disabilities and sight or hearing loss among its specialisms.
CQC rated it Good overall (February 2026). It is one of 11 CQC-registered care homes in and around Kensington and Chelsea; 8 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Detailed scores
CQC now scores each area it inspects from 1 to 4 against a set of "quality statements", and turns those into a percentage for the area. Averaged across the five areas, Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue scores 75%.
Safe 75%
- Learning culture3 · Good
- Safe systems, pathways and transitions3 · Good
- Safeguarding3 · Good
- Involving people to manage risks3 · Good
- Safe environments3 · Good
- Safe and effective staffing3 · Good
- Infection prevention and control3 · Good
- Medicines optimisation3 · Good
Effective 75%
- Assessing needs3 · Good
- Delivering evidence-based care and treatment3 · Good
- How staff, teams and services work together3 · Good
- Supporting people to live healthier lives3 · Good
- Monitoring and improving outcomes3 · Good
- Consent to care and treatment3 · Good
Caring 75%
- Kindness, compassion and dignity3 · Good
- Treating people as individuals3 · Good
- Independence, choice and control3 · Good
- Responding to people’s immediate needs3 · Good
- Workforce wellbeing and enablement3 · Good
Responsive 75%
- Person-centred Care3 · Good
- Care provision, Integration and continuity3 · Good
- Providing Information3 · Good
- Listening to and involving people3 · Good
- Equity in access3 · Good
- Equity in experiences and outcomes3 · Good
- Planning for the future3 · Good
Well-led 75%
- Shared direction and culture3 · Good
- Capable, compassionate and inclusive leaders3 · Good
- Freedom to speak up3 · Good
- Workforce equality, diversity and inclusion3 · Good
- Governance, management and sustainability3 · Good
- Partnerships and communities3 · Good
- Learning, improvement and innovation3 · Good
4 means exceptional and 1 means significant shortfalls (3 good, 2 some shortfalls). CQC data, assessed 9 November 2025, published 2 February 2026, Open Government Licence. Where no score shows, that statement wasn't part of this assessment and its earlier result still counts.
Earlier inspections
- Feb 2016
- Mar 2017
- Sep 2019
- Feb 2026
- Today Rated in the last 12 months
Overall ratings CQC has published for this location, oldest first.
CQC documents
- CQC inspection report 3 September 2019
- CQC inspection report 21 March 2017
- CQC inspection report 5 February 2016
- Inspection report 24 October 2013
Map and area details
- Ward
- St. Helen's
- Parliamentary constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater
- NHS integrated care board
- NHS West and North London Integrated Care Board
- Setting
- Urban, nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 50% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in W10 (5)
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Around the building
- Bus stop 180 m (2 min walk) · 28 stops within 600 m
- Railway station Shepherd's Bush, 1.5 km (19 min walk)
- GP surgery North Kensington Medical Centre, 60 m (1 min walk)
- Pharmacy Shelly's Pharmacy, 400 m (5 min walk)
- Shop Field Store, 250 m (3 min walk)
- Park 160 m (2 min walk)
- Café Adriana's Café & Eatery, 160 m (2 min walk)
- Place of worship St Helen's, 160 m (2 min walk)
- Library North Kensington Library, 820 m (10 min walk)
Straight-line distances to the nearest of each, from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Walking routes are longer; check for hills and crossings if you plan to take a relative out.
Geography: ONS and NHS lookups (postcodes.io), Open Government Licence.
From the latest CQC inspection
- During the assessment we contacted people or their relatives, care staff and healthcare professionals to gather their feedback regarding how people’s personal care needs were being met.
- The provider was able to demonstrate they were meeting the principles of Right support, right care, right culture.
- The provider recruited staff appropriately, people were assessed before receiving a service and were supported to take acceptable risks in a proactive and encouraging, way that enhanced their quality of life.
Inspected 22 July 2019; report published 3 September 2019; supporting 4 people at the time. In CQC's words, from its published findings (Open Government Licence). Read the full report.
Ownership and company checks
Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue is run by Support For Living Limited (company IP27062R).
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time and there is no insolvency history.
Support for Living Limited runs 12 CQC-registered services across 5 council areas; 10 of the 12 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (83%), against 83% for the same mix of services across England.
2 of its services are in Kensington and Chelsea.
It trades under the Certitude brand, which covers 38 services run by 4 registered providers.
Needs it is registered to meet
From the CQC register; ask how each need is met in practice.
Choice nearby
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other care homes are all within 3 miles, 18 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is Kingsbridge Road, under 0.5 miles away.
It is registered for needs that fewer services nearby cover: sight or hearing loss (6 of the nearest 25).
3 of the 23 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in St. Helen's ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 50% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS West and North London ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a GP surgery (1 min), a pharmacy (5 min), a shop (3 min), a park (2 min), a café (2 min) and a bus stop (2 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
Costs to expect
We estimate Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue at £1,450–£1,780 a week for residential care, based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £75k–£93k.
Ask how often fees rise and whether they go up if care needs increase.
Kensington and Chelsea Council can help with costs for people with savings under £23,250, starting with a free assessment.
The five key questions
- Safe75% score9 of 10 in Kensington and Chelsea
- Effective75% score8 of 10 in Kensington and Chelsea
- Caring75% score8 of 10 in Kensington and Chelsea
- Responsive75% score8 of 10 in Kensington and Chelsea
- Well-led75% score7 of 10 in Kensington and Chelsea
CQC key question ratings, published 2 February 2026. Under each rating: how many care homes in Kensington and Chelsea share it.
What the ratings tell you
All five areas CQC looks at are rated Good for Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue: no single area stands out above or below the rest.
For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 6 of the 9 other care homes in Kensington and Chelsea that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 75% and its lowest is Well-led at 75%, averaging 75% overall.
Track record
Registered in October 2012, it has 14 years on the CQC register.
CQC has published 4 overall ratings for it (2016–2026), starting at Requires improvement and improving to Good.
4 reports have been published for this location, most recently on 3 September 2019.
Family reviews
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How Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue compares
- Rated Good. Across Kensington and Chelsea, 90% of the 10 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 2 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (February 2026) is more recent than 60% of care home ratings in Kensington and Chelsea.
- With 6 beds it is smaller than 82% of care homes in Kensington and Chelsea, where the typical home has 46.
- Registered with CQC in 2012: it has been registered longer than 55% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 5 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in Kensington and Chelsea lists 4.
Benchmarked against all CQC-registered care homes in Kensington and Chelsea (Oct 2026).
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Other care homes near Kensington and Chelsea with recent ratings
- St Teresa's Care HomeJun 2025
- The Kensington Care HomeFeb 2026
- Kingsbridge RoadFeb 2026
Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue questions answered
- What kind of care can Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue offer?
- CQC lists Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue under: residential homes. Check which of these it is actively providing now.
- What is Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue's address?
- It is at 1 St Quintin Avenue, London, W10 6NX.
- Is Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue regulated by the Care Quality Commission?
- Yes: CQC lists it as a care home under location ID 1-485031555 and was rated Good overall in February 2026.
- Is Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue registered for dementia care?
- No dementia specialism is recorded with CQC. Ask the provider directly if this is likely to matter.
- When did CQC last rate Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue?
- The latest rating is dated 2 February 2026; ask whether there have been changes since.
- How many residents can Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue take?
- Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue is registered for up to 6 residents. Ask about current vacancies and whether rooms have en-suite facilities.
- Who is the registered provider for Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue?
- The registered provider is Support for Living Limited, according to CQC.
- How much does Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue charge?
- Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue has not published its fees with us. Residential care home typically costs £1,456 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in London). A written quote should spell out weekend, bank holiday and short-notice rates.
- How is Support for Living Limited - 1 St Quintin Avenue rated for safety and leadership?
- By key question, CQC gave: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led tend to say most about day-to-day reliability.
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