Raleigh House started out as a small hotel. Between 1986 and 1993 it was used as a homeless person’s unit by various Local Authorities. Increasingly, the people placed were younger and younger.
Harry Angelides founded Raleigh Care Ltd, October 1993; after he noted that the young people required considerably more than the pure accommodation that was being provided for at the time. There was a strong need for care and commitment. He set up Raleigh Care to provide the care and commitment that these young people needed to move on in their lives and create a positive future.

Initially, there was the process of getting registered; being the only private home within the borough posed certain difficulties; building works, planning consent, other regulations provided other constraints, people of a lesser resolve would have given up at this stage. Mr Angelides persisted, however, and in October 1993 Raleigh House opened as the first registered home within the London Borough of Camden. At this time it was registered for 11 young people as a home providing preparation for independence. It was some 2 months before the first admission. This was a young man on 24 hours curfew due to violent crime and sexualised behaviour. He displayed moderate to extreme challenging behaviour. Raleigh did an excellent job looking after him and was commended by the Local Authority involved. Raleigh House developed the concept of special packages from this initial placement.
For a number of years Raleigh House ran successfully as a unit providing preparation and training for independence and providing special packages for young adults displaying at risk behaviour. Gradually, it was apparent that many of the young people placed had more deep seated problems that needed to be addressed before they could attempt to grapple with the issues of inter-dependent living within the community. At first Falkland House was opened as a move on unit so that those young people working at moving onto independent living were not distracted by those still struggling with deep seated issues.
Gradually Raleigh switched focus to become a unit for difficult, hard to place young people with complex problems and Falkland became an intensive unit for young people requiring intensive support and high staffing levels.
Over time the special service became the norm and a dedicated and experienced staff team committed to their work, has built up and created the Raleigh Care ethos that allows us to successfully grapple with the difficult issues presented by the young people.