Morden College is a Charity dedicated to supporting older people. Founded in 1695 by the pioneering merchant, Sir John Morden, the Charity has been at the forefront of enriching older people’s lives for more than 300 years. Today the Charity’s core purpose is to provide older people who are in need with a home for life, to support them as they grow older, and to provide care services, including residential care and residential nursing care, if the need arises. We are a strong community, committed to enabling the older people we support to have the highest quality of life, for the rest of their life.

In 2014 we began plans for a new social hub in Morden College, a centre where residents could come together in a variety of ways – to meet, eat, act or develop their art and hobbies. Somewhere too where our medical outreach team could operate ‘as one’ to offer medical appointments and complementary therapy.

We are pleased to say that our plans have finally reached fruition in the shape of the distinctive, spacious, new John Morden Centre, complete with Café 19, which we very much expect to become the heart of Morden College. The building is now complete and we are immensely proud of the work undertaken by all parties to bring it to life.

Below you will see our homemade video which we made in lockdown for our Patron, HRH The Countess of Wessex, to give an impression of the building and how much we are looking forward to using it when it is up and running fully.