Anglesey Home Care is part of the Bunbury Care Agency, one of the longest established Domiciliary Care Agencies in the UK
Daily Care – Respite Care – Temporary Care
For over 50 years the Bunbury Care Agency has been providing Domiciliary Care Services for the Elderly, Children and Households Nationwide. Anglesey Home Care is specifically focused on extending our renowned Home Care Services to all the communities on the island and mainland of North Wales.
Established by the owner, Sarah Green’s mother, in 1968, the Bunbury Agency was a domestic and childcare agency. As the years passed it became evident that providing the right elderly care in the home was hard to find, not always reliable or indeed meeting peoples needs and requirements. Now are energies are totally focused and committed to providing that ‘Special Person’ for other families who are in need of trustworthy and reliable elderly care and companionship.
How it really all started, from our founder.
“I was having difficulty in finding the right person to look after my two younger children as I had become a local Councillor and suddenly my life had become rather hectic. When the Agency started, I wrote everything out by hand but after six months I needed a secretary. The Bunbury Domestic Agency as it was known then, was in business and our slogan was and still is ‘Everybody needs Somebody’. Ten years later, I was employing three people as clients and staff were contacting us from all over the UK.”
As time went by, my grandmother was in need of a live-in companion housekeeper. My mother realised there was a need for staff that had the skills and experience to look after older people, and started our ‘Rosy Rota’ Care Service. The way we approach the service has not changed over the years apart from the highly efficient technology we now use.
The Team
Trish Brewin – Care Manager
Trish is our most longstanding member of staff and joined the agency on a full-time basis in 1994. She has seen many changes over the years and despite many challenging times, has remained as committed and loyal to the cause of helping others.
She is now my invaluable Care Manager and together with her assistant, Yvonne O’Brien, looks after all our live-in and daily clients and staff. Trish has a wealth of experience and knowledge about recruiting the right person to look after elderly people.
Yvonne O’Brien – Care Co-ordinator
Yvonne joined us in the summer of 2017, primarily to assist Trish with our live-in clients and carers. She has worked for our local branch of Natwest Bank for many years, sadly closed now. Her customer relations skills along with her financial accuracy are real bonuses to my company. She is developing a good rapport with our clients and carers and tells me that she is really enjoying working for the Agency.
Sue Collings – Bookkeeper
Sue has been our bookkeeper for many years and is also now a qualified accountant. I could not manage without her financial skills and advice, let alone her pleasant personality once a week. She is also happy to advise and assist any carer about the benefits of being self-employed, which can appear to be complicated at the beginning.
Sarah Green – Owner & Director
I have three daughters and three grandchildren and consider myself to be one of the many people, I call ‘The Sandwich Generation’ i.e. whose parents are living longer and children not leaving the nest as quickly as they should but working full time. I have firsthand experience in my own life of the struggle we face these days.
I started my working life as Stage Manager in the Theatre in South Wales. There, I learnt the invaluable skills of organisation, planning and delivering the finished production to the audience! I have been a personal secretary to a Solicitor and then started my own Interior Design business. I loved this, as it maximised my artistic skills along with using my ability to be a good planner. In the early 1980s our family business invested in property in the Dordogne in France. Together with my sister, we renovated and furnished to a high standard, four properties. We then set up a property rental business called ‘Serendipity Francaise’ which ran from Cardiff for many years ending up with a portfolio of nearly 50 properties available for holidays in the area. The next ‘Serendipity’ occurred when one of my owners of a large Chateau, who turned out to be very successful property developers in Europe, wanted to buy my rental company. We became their rental division for all their developments in France and Spain as well as setting up and running their UK sales showroom in Cardiff Bay.
I moved back to Cheshire in 2004, and started to apply my skills and expertise to helping my mother with the Bunbury Agency. I qualified as an Expert Witness in Domiciliary Care and Staff Placement and write reports on personal injury and medical negligence cases for the Courts. I really enjoy this as it completes my philosophy of making a difference to somebody else’s life.
The way forward…
I passionately believe and know, that with the right care and support, most people can spend their later years in their own home. We look forward with great enthusiasm and excitement to lifting the burden on families and providing care and support you can trust, to many more people in the future. Our systems are completely integrated, so we do not have to re-invent the wheel, just continue to do what we do best. Looking after elderly and vulnerable people.
My mother’s phrase, ‘Everybody Needs Somebody’ is still so relevant today. So on behalf of myself and my fantastic team, we look forward to doing our utmost to help you.
Sarah Green, Owner and Director
We operate a Domiciliary Introduction Home Care Agency helping families predominantly on the island of Anglesey, although we are nationwide.
Anglesey Home Care is part of the Bunbury Care Agency who is registered with the CQC (Care Quality Commission), a member of the Homecare Association and an associate member of SOLLA (Society of Later Life Advisers). SOLLA is the only association in the UK that can provide accredited financial consultants who can advise and assist people with the funding of elderly care.
