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For many women today, the daily grind isn’t just about long hours — it’s the relentless layering of roles: professional, caregiver, partner, and friend. The result? A slow, quiet depletion that often goes unnoticed until burnout hits like a brick wall.

But escaping that grind doesn’t always mean escaping your life. It can mean reclaiming your well-being, one intentional change at a time.

At this meeting, the Board will receive information about current activities, concerns and finances.

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At this meeting, the Board received information about current activities, concerns and finances.

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Cherry Tree, The Farmhouse and The Paddocks are co-located on a site just off Wingletye Lane in Hornchurch. They are care homes that offer residential care for people aged under 65 who are living with learning disabilities; they share the site with a Day Centre and a children’s unit (both outside the remit of Healthwatch).

The facilities were formerly known as the Lilliputs complex (the whole site was once part of a farm known as Lilliputs) but, since the current providers, R G Care Ltd, took them over, they are treated as individual units rather than as a complex. The three homes are individually registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We visited Cherry Tree and The Farmhouse in October 2024 and The Paddocks in January 2025, to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it. We carried out a follow-up visit to The Farmhouse in August 2025.

[We have now carried out four full visits; all of our reports are available below]