Our Strategic Partners work closely with ARCO to build a strong sector with an appropriate legal framework, and sustainable and innovative design and construction. As leaders in the Integrated Retirement Community field, their input and expertise are invaluable.
ARCO is grateful for the continued support of its Strategic Partners. Click on the logos below for contact details.
Octopus Capital
Octopus Capital, 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 Capital creates strategic partnerships with leading operators, to deliver exceptional health and care facilities you’d choose for your loved ones.
TIS (Total Integrated Solutions)
Total Integrated Solutions (TIS) is a trusted partner to retirement communities, delivering end-to-end Fire Detection, Smoke Ventilation, Security systems, IT & Communication expertise across the full lifecycle of your buildings—from initial design and installation through to ongoing compliance, maintenance, and future conscious system upgrades. In a sector facing increasing regulatory and budgetary pressure, our multi-disciplined engineers ensure your life safety, security, and communications systems are not only compliant but operating at peak performance maximising system uptime and resident safety. As technology infrastructure specialists, TIS has offered independent converged systems integration and consultancy to the UK retirement living sector for over 25 years . We understand the unique operational needs of integrated retirement villages. Our consultancy arm, Polaris, supports you with strategic, cost-conscious future ready solutions that enhance safety, reduce risk, and improve operational efficiency, whether through new builds or managing the complexities of retrofitting existing sites. Experts in technology, partners in growth—keeping your retirement communities connected, protected, and compliant. Consultancy, Design, Regulatory Risk Management, Compliance, Fire Detection & Smoke Ventilation, Security Systems, IT Infrastructure & telephony, Retirement Communities, Technology
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. We are 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. Trowers is a firm embedded in the fabric of the seniors housing market, and has been for the best part of a decade. We provide legal services that underpin sustainable and liveable retirement communities, providing commercial advice geared towards tackling the challenges of today and tomorrow.