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Bridgeside Lodge Care Centre

61 Wharf Road, London N1 7RY — 64 beds, run by Blackberry Hill Limited under the Forest Healthcare brand.

Nursing care Dementia care 64 beds Registered 15.7 years

We do not yet have Islington Council’s published rates, so we are not going to guess what this home costs.

Other sites will show you a national average here. It would be a number with nothing behind it, and it would not help you negotiate. We have asked Islington Council for its 2026/27 rates under the Freedom of Information Act, and this section fills in when they answer.

Until then, the surest way to find out is to ask the home directly what it charges today — and whether that figure is due to rise in April.

How the inspectors rated it

Outstanding

The Care Quality Commission rated Bridgeside Lodge Care Centre Outstanding when it last published an assessment, in October 2023.

Inspected in the last three yearsThe national middle is 4.3 years. How we measure this.

This one is recent — 2.8 years old, so it is a fair picture of the home as it is now. Still worth asking whether the manager has changed since.
Safe — Good Effective — Outstanding Caring — Outstanding Responsive — Outstanding Well-led — Outstanding

Read the full CQC report · what these ratings mean · register retrieved 4 August 2026

What the same operator runs elsewhere

Blackberry Hill Limited runs 2 care homes for older people in England. Of the 2 carrying a published CQC rating, 2 are rated Good or Outstanding.

The paperwork, plainly

Beds registered
64
Typical size in Islington
52 beds
Registered with the CQC
15.7 years
Manager on the register
Makalo, Fatma
Who owns it
Blackberry Hill Limited
Companies House
05127085
Their own website
www.foresthc.com

Every line comes from the CQC register, not from the home. If something is wrong, tell us and we will check it against the register.

Other homes close by

Distances are straight-line from the registered address — useful for working out who could visit easily, which matters more than most things on this page.

All 12 homes in Islington →

Nearby homes rated Good or better, inspected in the last two years

The list above is by distance alone. This one keeps only homes whose rating is both good and recent — the two things a rating needs to be worth much.

Ask them what a room costs today

Published fees go stale within months. Tell us what care is needed and we will ask Bridgeside Lodge Care Centre directly, then send you the reply. We are paid nothing if you move in, so we have no reason to push you here or anywhere else.

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Would the council pay towards this?

Whether you pay all of it, some of it or none of it turns on savings, income and whether a property would be left empty. Our calculator applies the 2026/27 means test and tells you the weekly figure. See also how council funding works and what happens when the money runs out.

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Where to get advice

We publish prices and register data, not advice. For the decisions that follow, these are free and impartial.

Age UK — paying for a care home · MoneyHelper · Care Quality Commission · our guides to costs and funding

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