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UK licensed sponsor · Ringwood · Social care and care homes
The Lantern Community
The Lantern Community, Ringwood, holds a Home Office sponsor licence for Charity Worker, Skilled Worker. It is on the current register and has been since at least 4 September 2026. Companies House lists it as The Lantern Community (03773749), active, incorporated in 1999 (27 years ago), registered for residential care activities for learning difficulties, mental health and substance abuse.
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Companies House
Who The Lantern Community actually is
- Company number
- 03773749
- Status
- Active
- Type
- Company limited by guarantee
- Incorporated
- 20 May 1999 · 27 years old
- What they do
87200Residential care activities for learning difficulties, mental health and substance abuse
- Previously
- The Lantern Retreat (until 2012)
- Registered office
- The Lantern Community Folly Farm Lane, Ashley, Ringwood, Hampshire, BH24 2NN
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The registered office is where the company files its paperwork, not necessarily where it trades. Matched 10 September 2026.
What a licence means
Licensed, checked, on the list
The Home Office lists The Lantern Community because it applied, was checked and continues to meet its sponsor duties. Whether a given job qualifies still depends on the role and the pay under the current rules.
How to approach them
Or come through us
If The Lantern Community is the kind of employer you want, register with us. We supply trade tested candidates to UK sponsors and the introduction arrives with the test result.
The register
The register lists The Lantern Community in Ringwood as a licensed sponsor on Charity Worker and Skilled Worker, 2 routes in all, and has done since at least 2026. Rating on the current register: Temporary Worker (A rating), Worker (A rating).
The Lantern Community is the registered name (Companies House number 03773749), a company limited by guarantee on the register since 1999. The registered office is at The Lantern Community Folly Farm Lane, Ashley, Ringwood, Hampshire, BH24 2NN, BH24 2NN. By its SIC codes the business is in social care and care homes. It has traded under other names before, including The Lantern Retreat.
For a candidate this means one less obstacle: The Lantern Community already has the licence most employers would have to apply for. The rest is the ordinary job of getting the interview.
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What you need to work here
- A confirmed job offer from a UK employer that holds a Home Office sponsor licence. The employers in this directory all hold one.
- A Certificate of Sponsorship from that employer describing the role.
- A job on the Home Office list of eligible occupations, paid at least the minimum salary for that role and route.
Register with Sama
Want to work for The Lantern Community, or somewhere like it?
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For employers
Using your sponsor licence again soon?
Next time you are recruiting, talk to us first. We supply trade tested drivers, mechanics, welders and fitters, can organise a trip to see candidates tested at our centres, and handle the Certificate of Sponsorship paperwork with you.
- No retainer. Nothing to sign until you have met people.
- Trade tested before you see them, not after.
- Nothing is ever charged to the candidate.
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Source: UK Visas and Immigration, Register of licensed sponsors: workers. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Being on the register means an organisation holds a sponsor licence. It does not mean it has a vacancy or that it will sponsor you.
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