Charing

Woodside Residential Care Home

Residential care home in Dover, Kent

Operated by Charing

CQC Requires improvement40 bedsDementiaResidential
NeighbourhoodPeaceful Neighbourhood
What do these badges mean?
  • Peaceful Neighbourhood — Among the lowest for recorded anti-social behaviour and public disorder of comparable areas (police-recorded crime).
AddressWhitfield Hill, Dover, CT16 3BE
Beds40

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About

Woodside Residential Care Home, run by Charing, is in Dover, Kent, and has 40 registered beds. It provides residential care and dementia care for people over 65. The house was built in 1890 as a private dwelling and stands in six acres of woodland. Accommodation is spread over three floors and includes four double rooms, twenty-two single rooms and five en-suite single rooms in the extension. Communal spaces include a music room, several lounges and a patio.

Three meals a day are served, with snacks between them, from a seasonal menu that repeats on a four-weekly cycle. The Care Quality Commission rated the home Requires Improvement overall in its 2025 report. Its key questions were rated Good for effective, caring and responsive care, and Requires Improvement for safe care and for well-led management.

Care provided

Dementia
Residential

Specialist care

Dementia
Learning disabilities
Older people (65+)
Younger adults (under 65)

Food hygiene rating

Good

Food Standards Agency · inspected March 2026

What's nearby

GP surgery1.0 miles
Hospital15.7 miles
Pub or bar350 m
  • Near a main road

Straight-line distances. Road and rail noise from government strategic noise mapping (modelled, not measured). Locations © OpenStreetMap contributors.

What’s in the area

Outdoor Spaces

  • AllotmentsAdequate
  • Play SpaceAmple
  • Golf CourseLimited
  • Public ParkSparse
  • Tennis CourtSparse
  • Bowling GreenAdequate
  • Playing FieldSparse

Local Amenities

  • Pubs & BarsSparse
  • Restaurants & CafesSparse
  • Retail ShoppingLimited
  • SupermarketsSparse
  • TakeawaysSparse

Local crime statistics

32 recorded crimes in the local area (July 2026)

Top categories:

Shoplifting22%
Violent crime19%
Anti-social behaviour19%
Criminal damage & arson13%

Source: data.police.uk · within 1 mile

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Fees and funding

Care typeWeekly feeSource
Residential careFees on request—
Dementia careFees on request—
Funding accepted
Not stated

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Care fee trajectory

Indicative weekly fee by year, against what Kent pays care homes.
YearCouncil rate (per week)
2024£1,063
2025£1,187

What Kent council pays care homes, and whether it will help with fees

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Local health safety net

Woodside Residential Care Home is backed by a local NHS health network. The nearest A&E is William Harvey Hospital (Ashford), 15.7 miles away. The local GP practice is BUCKLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE, 1 miles away.

Nearest hospital · A&E
William Harvey Hospital (Ashford) · 15.7 mi
Nearest GP
BUCKLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE · 1 mi

Nearest services from NHS ODS + postcodes.io + CQC, by straight-line distance.

Community & connection in Dover

Local clubs, charities and support groups that help older residents stay active and connected.

Charity

Age Concern Dover Limited

Provision of welfare and day centre facilities, information and advice for elderly and needy people in Dover and surrounding areas.

2.7 miles away · Source: Charity Commission (1143453)
Charity

Age UK South Kent Coast

Age UK South Kent Coast promotes the following purposes for the benefit of the public/and or older people in and around East Kent-preventing or relieving the poverty of older people with…

6.3 miles away · Source: Charity Commission (1187363)
Charity

Age Concern Sandwich Centre for the Retired

Provision of Transport to enable clients to visit our "pop in" centre - provision of snacks, meals, bathing,choropody and Advocacy Services

7.8 miles away · Source: Charity Commission (1109346)

Part of Charing

Woodside Residential Care Home is one of 11 homes run by Charing on AskBart. See how the group's homes are rated and where it operates.

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Information last reviewed October 2026.

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