Privately Funded Clients
making the journey to a more accessible home feel personal, reassuring, and truly life-enhancing.
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For privately funded clients and their families, John Ford Group makes the journey to a more accessible home feel personal, reassuring, and truly life-enhancing. Choosing to adapt your home is about so much more than installing equipment or changing layouts, it’s about creating a living space where comfort, dignity, and everyday independence come first, whether you own your property or are renting during a transitional period.
Our approach always starts with listening. We take the time to get to know you, understanding your daily routine, style preferences, and any worries you have, especially if moving home or adapting for the first time.
For clients living in rental properties, we remove the stress of permissions and paperwork by liaising directly with landlords or letting agents, ensuring every adaptation is both reversible and fully compliant with tenancy and safety requirements. Portable solutions such as grab rails, ramps, bathroom modifications, and moveable hoist systems can be chosen for their practicality and for how well they blend into the existing space, never making a home feel institutional or clinical.
If you are preparing to adapt your forever home, we offer a truly collaborative, design-led service. Our team works closely with you to make sure every change, from open-plan layouts to discreet, accessible features, reflects your personal taste as much as your practical needs. We believe accessible design should feel warm and welcoming, not stark or medical, and pride ourselves on finding elegant, thoughtful solutions that match your vision for the future. Our transparent advice on budgets and long-term planning also helps you make confident, value-driven decisions at every stage.
Every project, whether in a rental property or your forever home, is managed with care and attention to detail by our experienced team. We handle design, planning, trusted trades, and communication, providing regular updates throughout so you always feel in control. Our goal is to minimise disruption and keep the experience positive, supporting you from first conversation through to completion and beyond.
People come to us during all sorts of life changes, some following injury, others adapting as needs evolve, and many seeking reassurance during times of uncertainty.
At John Ford Group, you’ll always find empathy, reliability, and a promise that adaptations don’t have to look clinical; your home can remain a true reflection of you. Whether you need a temporary solution while renting or a permanent transformation, we ensure your adapted home, above all, feels like your own—safe, stylish, and ready for life’s next chapter.
what we do
Adaptation for rental properties
Urgent, temporary adaptations for rented homes to support clients recovering from catastrophic injuries, enabling safe discharge and independent living during long-term planning.
Complex and large scale adaptations
Bespoke large-scale home adaptations designed to meet complex medical needs, ensuring functionality, compliance, and comfort for clients with complex and profound care needs
Hydrotherapy facilities
Designing and installing customised hydrotherapy pools and equipment to support rehabilitation and enhance health outcomes.
Outdoor accessible spaces
We design and deliver fully accessible external environments which include landscaped pathways, regraded level access solutions, terraces, and sensory gardens integrated within large scale adaptation projects
Modular Adaptations
Our modular solutions including fully integrated shower pods and external access systems, provide rapid, clinically robust installations, seamlessly incorporated into wider large scale adaptation schemes.
consultancy
Our consultancy services cover the full spectrum of property assessments, appraisals, and specialist property finding for clients with disabilities.
AREAS COVERED
house adaptations across the south east
John Ford Group is based in Chelmsford, Essex and provides house adaptions in domestic and commercial properties.
Covering the majority of Essex, as well as surrounding counties Kent, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, London & Surrey including Colchester, Ipswich, Tonbridge, Cambridge, Bury St. Edmunds, St. Albans, Peterborough, Ely, Lowestoft, Woodbridge,
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John Ford Group, Unit 203, Waterhouse Business Centre, Cromar Way, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 2QE
our details
A UK Limited Company: 06853235
VAT Number: 138554396