Home care agency · Doncaster
Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster)
Typical fee here £30–£37 an hour Estimate
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Illustrative photo, not of Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster)- Address
- Unit 2, Don House, Richmond Business Park, Sidings Court, Doncaster, DN4 5NL
- Run by
- Living Ambitions Limited (15 services)
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Home care agency, Community services - Learning disabilities, Supported living
- Dementia
- Not listed as a specialism with CQC; ask the provider
- Registered with CQC
- May 2016 (10 years)
- Part of
- Lifeways Community Care
- Registered manager
- Dawn Tracey Davis
- Company check
- Active, trading since 1991 (35 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 02622175)
- Last CQC check
- 10 Mar 2020
- Typical fees Estimated
- £30–£37 an hour for visiting care, weekdays; live-in £1,450–£1,770 a week. Our estimate from published local prices, not a quote. How we estimate
CQC regulated activities: Personal care
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CQC page for this service · CQC location ID 1-2607493461
About Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster)
Registered with CQC as a home care agency that also provides supported living, Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster) is based in Doncaster, run by Living Ambitions Limited. It supports adults of all ages, with registered specialisms in learning disabilities.
Its latest CQC rating is Good overall (March 2020). It is one of 57 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Doncaster; 44 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Likely fees
We estimate visits from Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster) at £30–£37 an hour (visiting care, weekdays), based on published prices in the region. As an example, an hour each morning and a 30-minute evening call comes to about £350 a week.
Regional live-in prices sit at roughly £1,450–£1,770 per week.
Council help is possible below £23,250 in savings: ask Doncaster Council for a free care needs assessment.
Past CQC ratings
- Jun 2017
- Mar 2020
- Today Rating 6 years old
Every overall rating on record for this location, earliest first.
Inspection reports to read
- CQC inspection report 10 March 2020
- CQC inspection report 8 June 2017
Finding it
- Ward
- Hexthorpe & Balby North
- Council
- City of Doncaster Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Doncaster Central
- Local NHS (ICB)
- NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
- Setting
- Urban · nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 10% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in DN4 (26)
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Geography: ONS and NHS lookups (postcodes.io), Open Government Licence. Carers work from this office and visit homes in the surrounding area.
Around Doncaster
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other agencies are all within 3 miles, 16 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is Lifeways Community Care (Doncaster), under 0.5 miles away.
14 of the 16 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Hexthorpe & Balby North ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS South Yorkshire ICB.
The registered provider
Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster) is run by Living Ambitions Limited (company 02622175), incorporated in 1991, 24 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 4 active directors and there is no insolvency history.
Living Ambitions Limited runs 15 CQC-registered services across 7 council areas; 13 of the 14 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (93%), against 84% for the same mix of services across England.
It trades under the Lifeways Community Care brand, which covers 86 services run by 19 registered providers.
Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster) over the years
CQC registration dates from May 2016, so the service has been operating for around 10 years under its current registration.
CQC has published 2 overall ratings for it (2017–2020), starting at Good and staying Good every time.
The rating is 6 years old. CQC decides when to return based on risk, so age alone is not a warning sign; still, ask who the manager is now.
The CQC website holds 2 reports for it, the latest from 10 March 2020.
Specialisms
Registration details from CQC.
Reading Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster)'s CQC ratings
Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster) has an even profile: Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led are each rated Good.
For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 44 of the 53 other agencies in Doncaster that CQC has rated.
From the latest CQC inspection
- People told us they were safe and staff treated people well.
- People's known risks were assessed and managed to reduce the risk of avoidable harm.
- Staff knew how to keep people safe and how to report any concerns relating to people's safety.
- Staff had good knowledge of people's preferences and used these to support people safely.
Inspected 24 February 2020; report published 10 March 2020. Quoted from the CQC report summary, Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
The five key questions
- Safe50 of 54 in Doncaster
- Effective49 of 54 in Doncaster
- Caring49 of 54 in Doncaster
- Responsive47 of 54 in Doncaster
- Well-led45 of 54 in Doncaster
Source: CQC, published 10 March 2020. Under each rating: how many agencies in Doncaster share it.
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How Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster) compares
- Rated Good. Across Doncaster, 96% of the 54 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 5 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (March 2020) is more recent than 19% of agency ratings in Doncaster.
- Registered with CQC in 2016: it has been registered longer than 81% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 3 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Doncaster lists 6.
Benchmarked against all CQC-registered home care agencies in Doncaster (Oct 2026).
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Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster) questions answered
- Is Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster) registered for dementia care?
- It is not registered with dementia as a specialism, so confirm with the provider whether it can meet that need.
- When did CQC last rate Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster)?
- CQC published the current rating on 10 March 2020, 6 years ago. Older ratings are common, so ask about changes since.
- Where is Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster) based?
- Unit 2, Don House, Richmond Business Park, Sidings Court, Doncaster, DN4 5NL is the agency's office; check it serves your postcode.
- Is Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster) a registered provider?
- Yes. Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster) is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a home care agency (location ID 1-2607493461) and was rated Good overall in March 2020.
- How much does Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster) charge?
- Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster)'s prices aren't on our site yet. Visiting care typically costs around £32–£34 an hour (typical 2026 prices across England). Ask for written prices covering weekends, bank holidays and any travel or set-up charges.
- Is Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster) rated well for safety?
- CQC rates five key questions. For Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster): Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Read Safe and Well-led first; they say most about reliability.
- What services is Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster) registered for?
- CQC lists Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster) under: homecare agencies, community services - learning disabilities, supported living. Check which of these it is actively providing now.
- Who runs Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster)?
- On CQC's register the provider is Living Ambitions Limited.
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