Sovereign Capital
Sovereign Capital is a private equity fund, which owns several healthcare companies. It was co-founded by John Nash, ex-chairman of Care UK.
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Activities
Sovereign Capital is one of the largest suppliers of fostering services, and owns the National Fostering Agency. It runs care homes for the elderly and children.
It also owns independent schools groups WCLS and Alpha Plus, DC Leisure, a leading operator in the market for managing council leisure centres and NHS service providers C.H.O.I.C.E., TRACS, Alkare, Cascade and Parallel. It reportedly made about £100 million from its involvement in the buying, reselling and consolidation of social care businesses, including Tracscare. <ref> Unison, The rise of the “public services industry”,A report for UNISON by Paul Gosling, September 2008 pp.14, 20, 26.
People
- John Nash
- Ryan Robson - co-founder. Has given the Conservative Party more than £250,000 in the past five years. Robson stood as a Tory parliamentary candidate in the 2010 election.
