Strategic Partners

Apetito

At apetito we are proud to supply meals that are tasty, nutritious and crafted with care by our chefs using high-quality ingredients. Our meals don’t just meet dietary needs, they promote well-being by turning an everyday meal occasion into a stand out dining experience. And out market leading customer service means you’ll be supported by us every step of the way.

NHBC

We understand that retirement community operators demand high-quality building design and construction to provide the best experience for their customers. We also know that investors need the assurance that their asset is protected in the event of structural defects.

With over 1.5 million homes currently covered, we are the UK’s leading provider of warranty and insurance for the new homes industry. We’ve worked with contractors and developers for over 80 years to identify and manage technical risk in developments through NHBC Standards, helping to improve construction quality and protecting their assets from major defects.

Our Retirement Living warranty and insurance policy offers comprehensive standard coverage for core protection against building or structural defects plus valuable optional benefits that protect your investment and revenue streams.

We are so much more than just an insurance provider – our industry-leading technical and inspection teams offer a proactive and supportive approach across the UK, adding real value to your project team.

nicol thomas

Nicol Thomas is a well established multi-discipline professional practice delivering architectural design and project management services nationally. In the last 20 years Nicol Thomas has delivered in excess of 1200 units in extra care/close care housing, and over 3750 apartments in 18 retirement villages nationwide.

Octopus Real Estate

Octopus Real Estate, part of Octopus Group, is a leading specialist real estate lender and investor, with over £2 billion in real estate assets and secured lending, and a highly experienced ambitious team of over 100 professionals.
The property lending team provides bespoke, customer focused financing solutions across the UK residential, commercial and development sectors. The team has lent more than £4.7 billion across over 3,750 loans, providing competitively priced financing throughout the UK and spanning the property investment lifecycle, with loans typically ranging from £100,000 to £50 million.
The investment team manages over £1 billion of investments, with a focus on care homes and retirement communities – sectors, with a health and care focus, requiring significant investment given the UK’s ageing population. Octopus Real Estate creates strategic partnerships with leading operators, to deliver exceptional health and care facilities you’d choose for your loved ones.

Sherpa CRM

Sherpa aligns strategic, operational and—why is this so rare?—human objectives to transform sales culture and drive results.

The heart of our sales enablement solution is our Prospect-Centred Selling® methodology. Sherpa marries leading CRM technology, training, analytics and customer engagement to revolutionise the way senior housing is sold.

Sherpa elevates sales.

TIS (Total Integrated Solutions)

The retirement community sector is operating in an increasingly challenging environment, where safety, security, regulatory and budgetary requirements are in a constant state of flux.

As an independent systems integrator and consultancy, we specialise in delivering a vision of a world that is better connected and protected by understanding you and designing systems around your needs in an open and collaborative way.

We are experts at unlocking the potential of smart, converged life safety, security and communications systems for retirement communities. Whether it's focusing on commercial strategy to help enhance your overall proposition or reviewing your operational capabilities to reduce costs and improve efficiencies, we develop focused, actionable and effective strategic responses to your most challenging safety and security questions.

We combine innovative technology solutions with sector, regulatory, and technical expertise. We design, install and maintain market leading, smart, reliable and highly-compliant solutions.

Protect your people, places and spaces with intelligent, converged life safety, security and communications systems.

It's smart protection. Simplified.

Trowers & Hamlins LLP

Trowers & Hamlins is a leading practice in health and social care, advising investors, operators, local authorities, the NHS and developers on buying or selling, establishing, building and managing care services of many kinds. The firm is a market leader in both the housing and public sectors giving them a broad understanding of all forms of care provision from multiple client viewpoints.

Tunstall

Tunstall has been at the forefront of technology innovation for the health, housing and social care markets for 65 years. Its pioneering software, hardware and services enable new delivery models which can transform services across the care continuum, and empower people to live independently and with an improved quality of life.

Tunstall works with social care providers, healthcare services, housing and retirement living providers and charities in 19 countries, improving the lives of more than five million people, including those living with dementia, learning disabilities, physical disabilities and long-term health conditions.

Tunstall’s innovation-led, person-centred Connected Care and Health solutions connect people and integrate services, enabling early intervention to avoid or mitigate adverse events, and improve outcomes. As technology advances, we have the capability to not just react to events, but to predict and even prevent them, using data-driven insights. The Tunstall Cognitive Care approach can help to create intelligent, personalised care programmes and effectively allocate resources, making sure those in need have the right levels of support and reassurance.

Wates Group

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The Wates Group was established in 1897 and is one of the leading privately-owned, construction, development and property services companies in the UK. We employ almost 4,000 people, working with a range of clients and partners from across the public and private sectors.