Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvementRated 4 years ago↓ Down from GoodNew owner since November 2025
SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?Requires improvement
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?Requires improvement
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?Requires improvement
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?Good
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?Requires improvement
CQC hasn't inspected this home for more than 5 years. It re-inspects based on risk, so an old rating doesn't count against a home on this site, but it may not reflect the home today. ?
The home changed owner in November 2025. Its rating dates from before the change. ?
This rating was carried over from the home's previous registration, usually after a change of owner. ?
The Chestnuts is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 19 other homes in North Northamptonshire.
80% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Achieve Together Limited runs The Chestnuts, a residential care home in Rushden, North Northamptonshire with room for 6 residents. CQC registers it to look after younger adults and people with a learning disability or autism. It is a small home for North Northamptonshire, where the median is 24 beds.
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in September 2022. Safe, effective, caring and well-led were also Requires improvement. Responsive was rated Good. The rating was carried over from a previous registration, which usually happens when a home changes owner. Before that, in May 2019, it was rated Good.
Achieve Together Limited runs 139 care homes, and 115 of the 138 rated are Good or Outstanding. Avenue House Nursing and Care Home, 1.5 km away, is the closest home rated Good. Across North Northamptonshire, 80% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England. Its kitchen was rated 5 for food hygiene in July 2025. That is true of 99% of homes in North Northamptonshire. The home changed owner in November 2025.
