BelleVie, a UK-based care provider that offers a range of services including companionship, housework, and specialist care for people living with dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and cancer, has secured £2.1m in seed and grant funding from a range of investors. The funding will be used to expand BelleVie’s operations in Tyne and Wear, and the move has unlocked £500,000 grant funding from UKRI’s Healthy Ageing Challenge managed by Innovate UK. BelleVie’s teams of wellbeing support workers, inspired by the Buurtzorg model, are subscription-funded and are said to be afforded more time to provide care to their clients.
BelleVie has raised £2.1m in seed and grant funding from a range of investors. The £1.6m seed funding round was led by Skagen Conscience Capital and featured the North East Innovation Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Northstar Ventures, The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Treebeard Trust. The funding will be used to expand BelleVie’s operations in Tyne and Wear, and the move has also unlocked £500,000 grant funding from UKRI’s Healthy Ageing Challenge managed by Innovate UK.
Since its incorporation in 2019, BelleVie has raised a total of £3.4m in funding. The recent funding round of £2.1m comprised a £1.6m seed funding round led by Skagen Conscience Capital and featuring the North East Innovation Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Northstar Ventures, The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Treebeard Trust. The move has also unlocked £500,000 grant funding from UKRI’s Healthy Ageing Challenge managed by Innovate UK.
BelleVie provides a range of services including companionship, housework and specialist care for people living with dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and cancer. The business says it is inspired by the Buurtzorg model, which centres around a person with care needs and balances informal support networks with a dedicated team and other professional tools. BelleVie’s subscription-funded, 10-strong teams of wellbeing support workers are said to be afforded more time to provide care to their clients. The firm says the majority of its team are paid employees rather than zero-hours contractors, and it believes its model can go some way to solving the staffing problems that are a feature of the care crisis.
BelleVie’s co-founder and CEO Trudie Fell expressed her excitement about the investment, stating that it will enable the company to accelerate its mission to reinvent the future of work in care, creating more fulfilling careers in care and supporting more people to thrive at home. The investment will also help to expand BelleVie’s operations, offering more local people high-quality home care, helping more people to live well at home for as long as safely possible. Cath Corner, the North East Wellbeing leader, also expressed her enthusiasm about the support for BelleVie in the North East, saying that it will allow the company to recruit more people from within the local community for whom it can offer guaranteed, contracted hours, flexible working, and a lovely local team to work in.
