Welcome to the ARCO Suppliers Directory. Please find below a list of specialist suppliers to the Integrated Retirement Community sector.
NHBC House, Davy Avenue, Knowlhill,, Davy Avenue, Knowlhill, Milton Keynes
MK5 8FP, United Kingdom
0344 633 1000
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.
Advisory, Construction, Consultancy, Insurance
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.
Architecture, Consultancy, Design, Project Management, Retirement Communities
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.
Construction, Financial Services, Healthcare Specialist, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
Sherpa CRM
Sherpa's sales enablement platform drives results for later living providers and ultimately provides a more enriching and successful experience for prospective buyers. It does this through hands-on sales training, a purpose-built CRM technology, and marketing automation that helps align objectives, measure meaningful behaviours, and increase sales velocity.
Consultancy, Data Solutions, Marketing and Sales, Retirement Communities, Technology
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.
Consultancy, Design, Regulatory Risk Management, 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. 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.
Legal Services
Tunstall Healthcare UK
Tunstall Healthcare UK 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 life to the full. Tunstall works with social care providers, healthcare services, housing and IRC operators and charities in 19 countries, enriching the lives of more than five million people by keeping them connected to their families and communities and providing unobtrusive reassurance. Our experienced, specialist teams work with our customers to deliver hundreds of developments every year, from initial specification through project design, delivery, installation and ongoing maintenance, providing a single point of contact for an extensive portfolio of onsite technology. As technology advances, we continue to develop pioneering solutions to enable IRC operators to support active lifestyles and evolving, person-centred care.
Health and Wellbeing, Healthcare Specialist, Technology
Bevan Brittan
Bevan Brittan advises private, public and third sector organisations in the healthcare market including property developers, funders, independent health and social care providers and NHS organisations. We have been consistently ranked by the Chambers UK Guide as a leading firm in healthcare.
Advisory, Healthcare Specialist, Legal Services, Real Estate, Regulatory Risk Management
BNP Paribas Real Estate UK
BNP Paribas Real Estate is formed of six business lines covering the entire property lifecycle. Property Development, Transaction, Consulting, Valuation, Property Management and Investment Management. Our Alternative Capital Markets team have over 30 years’ experience providing consultancy/ agency across the spectrum of healthcare real-estate sectors including: Care Homes; Retirement Living; Assisted Living; Supported living; Mental health; GP Surgeries; Hospitals. We provide a range of services from transactional, consultancy, valuation, viability, planning, building consultancy and research. We also work closely with our Strutt&Parker residential colleagues in London and around the UK.
Advisory, Consultancy, Healthcare Specialist, Property Services, Real Estate
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner are recognised by the leading international legal directories, Chambers & Partners and Legal 500, as the only leading adviser to the real estate sector across all disciplines, we pride ourselves on our ability to provide comprehensive, multidisciplinary advice. We deliver the full spectrum of services, ranging from large-scale, complex property acquisitions and joint ventures, development, construction and procurement advice, financing, to ongoing management work and disputes. Our offering combines expertise and first-class technical ability across specialist areas and we believe it is the depth and breadth of our market-leading sector experience that differentiates us from our competitors.
Construction, Legal Services, Property Services, Real Estate
Future Space, UWE North Gate, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol
BS34 8RB, United Kingdom
01454 838038
Carterwood
Carterwood is a multi-award-winning consultancy dedicated to social care. Our team of specialists provide independent, expert analysis that helps operators, developers, and investors to improve decision-making within the elderly care home and retirement living sectors. As well as market-leading advisory services, Carterwood offer powerful digital platforms for assessing care markets, called Carterwood Analytics. Carterwood Analytics | Retirement Living gives retirement living operators, developers, and investors access to a proprietary database, providing essential data needed to assess the viability of new retirement living schemes quicker, improve sales velocity, and maximise sale/resale rates. We combine sector-specialism with unparalleled data quality and a commitment to innovation, to help our clients make better decisions. Carterwood acts for 80% of retirement living operators and 85% of the top 20 care home group operators in the UK, and our commercially-focused team is one of the largest dedicated to health & social care.
Consultancy, Data Solutions, Healthcare Specialist, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
CBRE Limited
Our team of senior living specialists provide a fully integrated service that draws on extensive market insight. We specialise in funding and development consultancy, land acquisition, planning, valuation, project management and research. Combined with CBRE’s multi-sector expertise and connections within its global network, our understanding of the market is deeper than that of any other advisory firm.
Advisory, Consultancy, Financial Services, Project Management, Real Estate
Gowling WLG
Gowling WLG is an international law firm with more than 1,400 legal professionals and a presence in Canada, the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and South America. Whether you’re an operator, a contractor, a developer, a funder or an investor in the senior living sector, we can help you. We’re proud to have some of the sector’s best technical lawyers operating in the UK, including some of the leading residential living lawyers and healthcare regulatory experts. We help to create operating structures and delivery models and advise on emerging sector, legal and regulatory trends and requirements, helping our clients to structure and execute their business plans.
Consultancy, Legal Services, Real Estate, Regulatory Risk Management
Greenwood Campbell
We call ourselves the Human Tech Agency because our purpose is to improve people's lives.
We use empathy, research and data to understand our clients and the motivations and needs of their users. Then we use the latest technology to create meaningful and engaging digital experiences.
We build websites, create Metaverses, design voice skills, develop chatbots, make apps and transform organisations.
Our work helps older people find the right care, inspires people to get fit and healthy, aves lives at sea, brings fans closer to the game they love, ensures people find the right doctor, connects isolated people with volunteers and revolutionises the way parents adopt children.
We are Greenwood Campbell, the Human Tech Agency
Technology
JLL
At JLL our aim is to shape the future of Real Estate for a better world. We help our clients achieve their ambitions in the healthcare sector by providing market-leading research and consultancy advice on demographics and sector performance. We assist clients with access to funding through providing Red Book valuations and others to enter the sector through raising finance and acquiring developments or sites. We are also the market leader when it comes to the sale of operational businesses in the Retirement Community sector.
Construction, Consultancy, Project Management, Property Services, Real Estate
Knight Frank
At Knight Frank we have a market leading seniors housing team providing a full range of services across the sector. We provide capital markets, valuation and advisory services aimed at seniors housing developers, funders and operators specialising in integrated retirement communities, retirement housing and assisted living schemes.
Consultancy, Marketing and Sales, Property Services, Real Estate
MGAC
MGAC is a global boutique consultancy dedicated to managing and representing our clients’ best interests. Our success is rooted in hiring exceptional people who are driven to do challenging work with the unique blend of experience, integrity, creativity, and commitment that separates us from our competitors. We provide best-in-class services that include project , program and development management, project controls, cost management, schedule management, health + safety, technology solutions, FF&E procurement, and relocation management. We have the ability to integrate these services to provide a completely customised and tailored solution to our clients’ project or programme specific needs. Our sector specialists working on Integrated Retirement Communities draw on up-to-date market knowledge and real-time data, giving us the ability to hit the ground running and contribute regularly with insights into the current and emerging issues your project may face.
Construction, Consultancy, Project Management, Property Services, Real Estate
Pinsent Masons LLP
Pinsent Masons is a full-service international law firm. We respond to the pressures and opportunities facing businesses globally with legal excellence and innovation.
With 25 offices on four continents, wherever your commercial interests take you, we have the footprint and expertise to provide support. We recognise that giving a first class service goes beyond just legal excellence. A deep understanding of local cultural and commercial issues, and an innovative approach, underpins all of our advice. We understand the key political, economic, commercial and regulatory issues, helping to minimise risk and maximise opportunities.
We have market-leading expertise in five key global sectors:
• Technology, Science & Industry
• Energy
• Financial Services
• Infrastructure
• Real Estate.
We provide a strong local presence with an excellent understanding of the local market, backed up by our innovative technologies and global resources.
Legal Services, Property Services, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
PRP
PRP is an interdisciplinary architectural practice, offering a full range of design and building services. For over fifty-five years, PRP has been designing high quality buildings that enrich the lives of users and their communities. Whether designing homes for older people, regenerating inner-city estates or masterplanning new neighbourhoods, our ethos is always the same – intelligent, responsive and sustainable solutions, delivered with professionalism and total integrity. Led by Jenny Buterchi, PRP has a dedicated team of over 40 designers who operate entirely within the older persons housing and care sector. As the UK market leaders in the field of later living design, we are passionate about designing homes where residents feel secure and proud to live. We have completed over 11,500 independent living units and care home beds in the UK since 1998. Our projects range from small specialist dementia care homes to large integrated retirement communities and intergenerational masterplans in urban and rural settings. Our drive for design quality complements our expertise in this sector, resulting in award-winning, truly innovative buildings which are efficient to run and make a real difference to the people who live within them. We achieve this by understanding our clients, their residents and the local context. We have a deep understanding of the issues and solutions particular to later living and the nuances which differ from other housing. We can create barrier free designs without diluting the architecture, delight or high standard of finishes.
Architecture, Construction, Design, Retirement Communities
Savills
Savills Healthcare and Senior Living provide a comprehensive range of services in the rapidly expanding senior living and healthcare sectors. Our team of multi-disciplinary experts specialise in transaction advisory, structuring, equity and debt financing, development, consultancy, valuation and research, across the UK and Europe. The assets and portfolios we have advised on range in size from £1 million to over £1.5 billion, with a broad cross-section of clients that includes institutional investors, private equity, annuity funds, banks and non-bank lenders, developers, operators, landowners, house builders, charities and NHS Trusts. We combine our sector-specialism with UK and Europe wide coverage, bringing in local market expertise from our colleagues across the vast Savills office network.
Advisory, Healthcare Specialist, Hospitality, Planning, Property Services, Real Estate
Whiteley Consulting Ltd
Whiteley Consulting is considered sector leading in helping those who wish to achieve the most value out of retirement living and increase their chances of both formulating a successful strategy and executing it. We are here for those who truly wish to understand all aspects of the event fee/DMF business model; are seeking bank or equity funding; modelling appraisals; or help regarding the structures, accounting, reporting, leases, legislative environment and tax associated with the sector. We have much experience of transactions, trouble shooting under-performing operations and value enhancement in the sector. We can assist Funds in reaching a successful sector strategy, screen or find potential investments and review existing ones.
Advisory, Consultancy, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
Wippet
Wippet is an online purchasing platform that gives IRC operators control – over their suppliers, their buyers and their spend. It’s buying made simple. Wippet has unlimited capacity to load an operators preferred suppliers’ catalogues of products on to the platform, so everything can be bought from one place with one login, one basket and one invoice, no matter from how many suppliers the order is placed. And all your existing contract terms can be automatically applied to your transactions, too – credit limits and terms, even your specially negotiated prices will only be visible to your employees. What’s more, with Wippet you can have a monthly buying report of all your transactions, so your purchasing information is at your fingertips. The back-office efficiency alone of Wippet can release many precious hours that could be better spent – a real challenge in the post Covid world. And what’s more, as Wippet grows, your organisation will have access to anonymised data from across the sector to either give you comfort you are paying a fair market price or identify opportunities to buy better. Put more simply benchmarking at your fingertips to make your buying work better for you. In short, Wippet is a whole suite of tools to help IRC operators drive up efficiency and drive down costs. Wippet was launched in October 2021 and is the brainchild of Matt Oxley, who previously held senior management positions for 5 large healthcare operators. Incorporated in January 2021, Matt and his two co-founders secured the significant investment needed to build a state-of-the-art buying platform and at the same time sold Wippet to Clipper Plc. – the distributor of the government’s free-issue PPE. Matt, the CEO and his two co-founders now lead this fast-growing company.
Data Solutions, Food, Project Management, Technology
Acuity Law
Acuity Law is a dynamic and forward-thinking commercial law firm, with an entrepreneurial spirit, operating throughout the UK. Acuity offers a partner-led service and has a strong track record in providing advice, transactional services and business support to organisations operating in the housing and healthcare sectors, including retirement community and care home operators.
Legal Services
Ageing Asia Alliance
Ageing Asia is Asia Pacific’s first industry network on the business of ageing. We are an independent business network that seeks to unite business, government, not-for-profits and mainstream media in Asia Pacific together to address opportunities to support the ageing baby boomer population by nurturing partnerships and curating development of solutions. The principal goal of the Alliance is to establish a network that will be the most recognised platform for Asia Pacific’s ageing market intelligence, and to champion higher excellence in both eldercare and industry standards. It represents members with a shared vision on changing the future of ageing in the region. To date, the Alliance has over 1,700 professional members. Three Pillars of Ageing Asia:
Facilitate knowledge transfer of best practices, concepts and innovations in health and eldercare between countries and sectors
Research and identify market intelligence on Asia Pacific’s ageing market business opportunities
Improve quality of eldercare in Asia Pacific
Advisory, Consultancy, Planning, Project Management, Technology
AR Architecture
AR Architecture is a creative studio of Architects and Interior Designers, founded in 2010 in Hampstead, London.
The company operates from offices in London and Porto and gets involved in a broad range of high-end residential, hospitality and commercial projects, having won multiple national and international awards. The services of AR Architecture span from feasibility studies to statutory approvals (with strong expertise in heritage buildings), and from concept design to project management during construction.
Regarding its clients as co-authors, the practice provides full transparency on all aspects of the project and helps them maintain control over the cost and the programme.
The company welcomes challenges, finding inspiration in the most complex constraints. With a commitment to design excellence and the highest professional standards, AR Architecture always aims to exceed the clients’ expectations creating well-considered, functional, elegant modern buildings that make appropriate use of advanced materials and construction, reduce energy consumption and derive maximum benefit from natural resources, while responding creatively to their context.
Architecture, Consultancy, Design, Planning, Project Management
ARC Engineers Ltd
Arc Engineers are an established Civil and Structural Engineering Consultancy, based in West Yorkshire and serving the entire UK. Our principal focus is the Specialist Living sector, including care homes, extra-care, retirement villages, supported and assisted living. Working alongside care-focused architects, developers and clients, we take enormous pride in the work we do within this sector, knowing the difference the outcomes can make to those who live and work in the completed developments.
Advisory, Construction, Consultancy, Design, Property Services
Arcadis
Arcadis is an award winning, multidisciplinary consultancy. Our integrated services include project and cost management, employer’s agent, planning, building surveying, clerk of works, principal designers.
Advisory, Consultancy, Planning, Project Management, Retirement Communities
Assael Architecture
Assael Architecture is an award-winning practice providing urban design, architectural, landscape and interior design services to a range of developers, institutional investors and local authorities across the UK. With a contextual and research-led approach, our designs respond to people’s needs to create attractive developments that foster strong communities over the long term.
Architecture, Design, Hospitality, Retirement Communities
Autumna
Autumna provides an easy-to-navigate, easy-to-compare, online directory and free advice line for people looking at retirement living options throughout the UK. Providing a unique and invaluable resource as consumers research their later life living options. Autumna also supports retirement developers by providing a unique way of promoting their developments, focusing on the development as a whole, rather than individual property sales.
Advertising, Advisory, Health and Wellbeing, Marketing and Sales, Retirement Communities
Avante Care and Support
Avante Care & Support is a not for profit organisation that cares for and supports over 1000 older people through registered nursing and dementia care homes, home care and wellbeing support services. Avante has been providing care and support for over 30 years and are proud of what they do. Avante is committed to making a positive difference to those in our care and our experienced, dedicated and skilled workforce strives to ensure we provide communities where everyone has a vibrant and fulfilling life.
Health and Wellbeing, Healthcare Specialist, People Services
Bernard Interiors
Bernard Interiors is an award winning interior architecture and design studio specialising in luxury commercial and residential projects throughout the UK and abroad. The practice provides turnkey solutions, architectural services, consultancy and procurement services for a variety of sectors, with specialist knowledge and a wealth of experience in later living, healthcare for the elderly and dementia care.
Architecture, Construction, Design, Project Management, Retirement Communities
Bridgman Commercial
For over 40 years, Bridgman has represented the very best of Great British furniture design, making and supplying commercial furniture to transform the lives of our clients and customers. A family business with 3 generations of experience, we keep our customers at the heart of everything we do, offering expert advice, services and award-winning outdoor furniture that goes above and beyond to benefit you and your residents in the best way possible.
As a member of Care England, our unique catalogue of modern, traditional and timeless furniture is trusted by Care Homes, Retirement Villages and Hospices across the UK. By coupling British design and innovation with the world's finest craftsmen and highest quality materials, we have remained at the forefront of the luxury furniture industry. From our large dining sets down to our exclusive fully waterproof cushions, each piece of Bridgman furniture is expertly crafted using the highest quality materials and production techniques to stand the test of time.
Design, Property Services, Retirement Communities
Browne Jacobson LLP
Our experienced team of care home lawyers has an in-depth understanding of the issues that providers are facing and the residential care regulations that these operators must follow. We work with our clients collaboratively and take time to understand and respect their requirements in this difficult climate. In addition, we draw on a wide range of experience gained from acting for many public, private and third-sector health and social care clients, including regulators and over 150 local authorities across England and Wales. Our dedicated healthcare practice works across the NHS and independent healthcare sector. We believe we are unique in being able to offer heavyweight corporate, commercial and banking practices (which include healthcare specialists) combined with a wealth of expertise in the public sector in all aspects of health law.
Advisory, Healthcare Specialist, Legal Services, Property Services, Real Estate
Centrus Financial Advisors Ltd, Senator House, 85 Queen Victoria St, London
EC4V 4AB, United Kingdom
0203 846 5670
Centrus
Centrus specialises in corporate finance and we support a wide range of organisations including providers of retirement housing in their funding and financial strategy needs. Our team of professionals specialise in banking, debt capital markets, derivatives, financing strategy and risk management.
Advisory, Financial Services, Project Management
Christie & Co
Christie & Co has the largest team of advisory and transactional professionals advising on all aspects of healthcare properties and operational real estate. Our consultancy and valuation advisory capability leverage off our market leading data analytics system. We have been actively involved in the development arena providing advice on a wide range of new care home, extra care and care village development schemes.
Advisory, Consultancy, Property Services, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
Clifford Chance
At Clifford Chance, our clients turn to us for their real estate requirements globally including large scale, strategic transactions because of our integrated sector-based approach to real estate and our extensive international network. We advise on the entire property ‘life-cycle’ from the initial acquisition, development, leasing, joint venturing and financing through to the final exit, as well as tax structuring, corporate outsourcing, planning, environment and litigation. As real estate specialists, we know the demographic pressures on the residential sector and we are delighted to be supporting the exciting, and much-needed, growth of Integrated Retirement Communities as an asset class with a lot to offer us all in later life. At Clifford Chance, our In Residence Group are actively engaging in conversations around how to deliver the best framework for delivery of IRCS from a developer, consumer and investor perspective and, in this regard, we look forward to supporting ARCO and its members with our market-leading expertise.
Construction, Legal Services, Planning, Real Estate, Regulatory Risk Management
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang
We have been advising our clients to invest in, finance, develop, regulate and manage effectively in this growing market for over 20 years. Our multi-disciplinary team advise on structuring & acquisition, planning, financing, development, and the ongoing asset management of retirement communities.
Advisory, Healthcare Specialist, Legal Services, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
ColladoCollins Architects
ColladoCollins is a London based practice providing architectural and masterplanning services. The practice operates across several sectors, combining a strong design ethos with sound technical strength through every stage of the design process.
Architecture, Design, Planning
Colliers International
Colliers International is one of the UK’s top real estate advisory organisations, employing around 830 people in 16 offices throughout the UK and Ireland. Our specialist healthcare team of chartered surveyors, agents and consultants are active in all aspects of healthcare, retirement communities and medical properties, from individual units to UK-wide and European portfolios.
Health and Wellbeing, Healthcare Specialist, Property Services, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
Cubigo
Cubigo connects and streamlines your non-clinical operations and communications within the senior living sector.
Cubigo platform has all the tools and integrations you need for activities, hospitality, request handling, visitor management, and prospecting. Cubigo’s enterprise platform integrates smoothly with more than 30 clinical, operational, and financial solutions to eliminate redundant data entry. Consolidate information from all departments across all communities to create interactive dashboards that provide actionable insights.
Data Solutions, Health and Wellbeing, People Services, Retirement Communities, Technology
DLP Planning Limited
DLP Consulting Group and its constituent companies provide town planning,highways/transportation and master planning/architecture/heritage and environmental planning services and have extensive experience in the planning for older persons accommodation. They advise a range of private clients, investors, RSL’s/public sector and operator companies on the selection and promotion of sites for specialist accommodation. The Strategic Planning Research Unit (SPRU) is a specialist team within DLP that provides expert technical assistance, including modelling future needs, the social benefits of releasing family housing and reducing pressure on health services, as well as modelling the economic benefits of development in terms of jobs and GVA. SPRU have developed an up to date Older Persons Housing Needs Model. This research incorporates analysis of the changes in the nature of provision in terms of tenure and type and response to local circumstances. The practice has extensive and widespread experience of the selection and promotion of sites and have gained permissions in both greenbelt and AONB settings, as well as in the open countryside and urban locations and previously developed land.
Architecture, Consultancy, Design, Planning
eGym UK
We are a global fitness technology leader that provides fitness and health facilities with intelligent workout solutions built on a robust ecosystem of connected gym equipment and software. EGYM empowers gym operators to deliver a comprehensive workout experience through its smart gym equipment and digital solutions to support their members' fitness journey and provide data-based guidance to help them stay motivated and achieve their goal of a healthier life with improved physical and mental wellness.
Data Solutions, Health and Wellbeing, Retirement Communities, Technology
Elderly Accommodation Council (EAC)
EAC runs the website www.HousingCare.org which profiles all retirement housing developments in the UK and underpins its unique and independent housing options advisory service to the public. HousingCare.org also provides a marketing platform for providers wishing to increase their visibility and/or advertise currently available properties. Access to EAC’s database of information on 25,000 UK retirement developments is available on a subscription basis to developers, strategic planners and investors. The database also informs the Housing LIN’s SHOP@ consultancy services.
Advertising, Advisory, Data Solutions, Marketing and Sales, Retirement Communities
Eversheds Sutherland
As a global top 10 law practice, Eversheds Sutherland provides legal advice and solutions to an international client base which includes some of the world’s largest multinationals. Our teams of lawyers around the world operate seamlessly to deliver the legal know-how and strategic alignment that clients need from their advisors to help further their business interests. Clients describe us as creative and well versed in cutting edge legal work – we listen well in order to understand how and where we can be most effective and add the greatest value. We shape our advice to the unique circumstances and challenges of each project, and ensure the right people are in the right places to offer insight and certainty – from the day-to-day to the most complex, multijurisdictional matters. What unites us is our commitment to service excellence through a solution-oriented approach. We know our clients’ businesses, the industries and markets they operate in, and we know that great relationships yield the best outcomes.
Legal Services, Planning, Real Estate
Faithful+Gould
Faithful+Gould is a world-leading integrated project and programme management consultancy. Our unique ability to integrate our worldwide core services of cost and commercial management, project management, programme management, asset management and project controls delivered with intellect, innovation, positive thinking, problem solving capability and constructive interrogation, ensures we achieve the right solutions for our clients’ needs.
Consultancy, Project Management
Forsters LLP
Forsters is a leading London law firm based in Mayfair which delivers exceptional legal advice to clients in the real estate world. Forsters advise a number of clients in the Later Living sector in relation to development projects, the acquisitions, disposal and management of real estate assets and financing these assets and developments. Forsters are live to the nuances and particularities of the Later Living sector and the commercial considerations for those operating in this sphere, and are therefore able to provide pragmatic and common sense advice to clients.
Advisory, Legal Services, Planning, Real Estate
Fortwell Capital
Fortwell Capital is a principal lender providing short and medium term financing solutions to developers and investors across multiple sectors within UK real estate. Fortwell specialises in complex, higher leverage and development-led opportunities. Having lent over £1.8bn since 2011, Fortwell partnered with Cain International in 2018 to deliver a further £400m of capital to the market, expanding its reach across the UK whilst building on its established reputation in the care home sector.
Construction, Financial Services, Real Estate
Gardiner & Theobald LLP
G&T is an independent construction and property consultancy delivering Cost Management, Project Management and Specialist Consultancy for the built environment. We are passionate about three things: delivering a truly world class service for our clients, investing in the best people to deliver that service and remaining financially strong and independent. These are the pillars of our success and what sets us apart from the rest. We care about the impact we have on the world and the legacy we leave behind – from championing the next generation of built environment professionals, to our commitment to working to the highest ethical standards - we are proud to set the benchmark for quality in our field.
Construction, Consultancy, Project Management, Real Estate
Gaunt Francis Architects
GFA have an enviable track record in designing and delivering award-winning retirement communities and care homes. We work across all the RIBA work stages from formulating the brief to post-occupancy evaluation, and are especially proud to have been at the forefront of creating the majority of Audley’s IRCs as well as the Mayfield Watford village. We deliver high-quality contextual designs that are committed to creating sustainable communities that promote health and well-being through excellent architecture. We are passionate about our involvement in this sector, and proud of our certifications as RIBA Client Advisers and Passivhaus Designers. The most rewarding aspect of our vocation is the positive feedback we receive from those that live in the buildings and spaces we design.
Architecture, Construction, Consultancy, Design, Planning
Gleeds
Gleeds we shape the future of the built environment, with independent thinking and lasting relationships. Our purpose describes what has been, and will always be, true about Gleeds. It unifies us across borders and gives a collective focus. Ultimately, we want it to drive our growth by making sure we’re clear about who we are and why our clients should choose Gleeds. Shaping the future Independent thinking Our emphasis on being thinkers reflects the experience and intellect of our people. Everyday, we use our independent thinking to problem solve and make projects happen. Lasting relationships
We provide advice that influences the way people around the world live, work and travel. Our service range runs across so many different sectors and geographies that collectively our teams play a big part in improving the quality of life for millions of people.
Our purpose statement reflects our independent nature and spirit. As more competitors have become acquired by large multinationals, our impartiality has increasingly set us apart.
We believe that at the heart of any great team sit strong relationships. Investing in relationships is something we do every day. We go the extra mile for our colleagues, integrate into client teams and mediate with suppliers.
Construction, Consultancy, People Services, Property Services, Retirement Communities
Glide
Glide are specialists in desiging, installing and managing market-leading, super-fast, reliable and future-proof broadband, data and smart building solutions for residential developers and their customers.
Data Solutions, Technology
Guardian Carers
Guardian Carers is a premium introductory service specialising in recruiting for private homes and top-tier integrated retirement communities in the UK and internationally. We have been expertly recruiting top professionals such as General Managers, Care Managers, Registered Nurses, Carers and Housekeepers for our clients. Guardian Carers has established an impeccable reputation, working alongside our clients to ensure every hire is a perfect match. We provide a 360 service, leaving no stone unturned in our recruitment services.
Health and Wellbeing, People Services
Hansgrohe Limited
Since 1901, Hansgrohe has been developing taps, showers and kitchen mixers, under two brands, to take everyday moments and make them extraordinary with innovative design, quality and service. For more than 25 years, our brand AXOR conceives and manufactures iconic objects for luxurious bathrooms and kitchens; developed in collaboration with world-renowned designers and architects.
Hansgrohe is our premium brand for showers, shower systems, bathroom and kitchen mixers. Shaped by an sense of form, pioneering spirit, and German engineering skills, products are created that are convincing with their excellent design.
Construction
Harrison Street Real Estate
Harrison Street is one of the leading investment management firms exclusively focused on alternative real assets. Since inception in 2005, the firm has created a series of differentiated investment solutions focused on demographic-driven, needs-based assets. The firm has invested across senior housing, student housing, healthcare delivery, life sciences and storage real estate as well as social and utility infrastructure. Headquartered in Chicago with offices in London, San Francisco, Toronto and Washington DC, the firm has more than 200-employees and approximately $46 billion in assets under management. Clients of the firm include a global institutional investor base domiciled in North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Latin America. Harrison Street was awarded Best Places to Work by Pensions & Investments for seven consecutive years (2014-2020) and was recognized by PERE as the 2021 Alternatives Investor of the Year, North America and 2020 Global Alternatives Investor of the Year. For more information, please visit www.harrisonst.com.
Financial Services, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
Commer House, Tadcaster Enterprise Park, Station Road, Tadcaster
LS24 9JF, United Kingdom
01937 222107
Healthcare Property Consultants
HPC is an award-winning, independent firm offering specialist advice and services to those operating and investing in the healthcare sector throughout the UK. This includes care homes, retirement communities, independent hospitals and new developments. Our services include the sale and acquisition of property and businesses, valuation, strategic advice, business appraisal and feasibility studies.
Advisory, Consultancy, Marketing and Sales, Planning, Property Services
Hoare Lea LLP
Hoare Lea is an award-winning engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers and technical specialists. We provide innovative solutions to complex engineering and design challenges for buildings.
Irrespective of the scale or complexity of a project, we provide a full range of MEP, environmental and sustainability services, bringing buildings to life and ensuring that they perform in operation as well as they look.
Consultancy
Office Suite 1, Bowling Hill Business Park, Quarry Road, Chipping Sodbury, Bristol
BS37 6JL, United Kingdom
+447515609768
Ian Willams
Ian Williams is one of the UK’s leading property services companies. It is at the forefront of providing services to the built environment with particular expertise in senior living, care facilities and housing.
Construction, Property Services, Real Estate
Informed Decision Ltd.
Informed Decision
. Assists clients to run their businesses better by having access to better people, whether through resourcing (primarily), talent management, coaching / mentoring or other services (eg: outplacement)
. Provides a high level of personal service throughout every assignment and remains accountable for delivery of success even after assignments end (onboarding)
. Shares diverse services culture experience in an easily accessible manner, with reward tied extensively to results
. Focuses on supporting and advancing clients' D&I and ESG initiatives
. Is often retained on the more difficult assignments, or to deliver success when others have not
Advisory, Consultancy, People Services, Real Estate
Irwin Mitchell
We are proud to work with clients who are creating retirement homes and communities, and in doing so, are changing lives for the better. At Irwin Mitchell our later living and care lawyers work alongside our private wealth later life planning experts – which means we not only understand your business, but also your customers. We believe this combination gives us a unique insight into the challenges, as well as the rewards of building a successful retirement living business. Share your ambitions with us and we’ll help you make them happen within this fast growing market and rapidly changing legal landscape.
Construction, Legal Services, Planning, Real Estate, Regulatory Risk Management
Karndean Designflooring
Karndean Designflooring is a United Kingdom based company with operations in the U.S. and abroad. When it comes to top design flooring replicates, no one does it better than Karndean. Karndean creates some of the most gorgeous flooring products that are perfect replicates of natural materials to include ceramic, glass, slate, limestone, wood, and marble. Karndean was founded back in 1973 with its focus on reaching consumers in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Although the company had humble beginnings, it has now grown into one of the most innovative and respected flooring solutions in the world for both residence and commercial needs. The goal of Karndean has always been to provide consumers with an exceptional flooring product that is affordable, efficient, practical, and beautiful.
Architecture, Construction, Design
LaingBuisson
LaingBuisson, the leading healthcare intelligence provider, has been serving clients in health and social care for over 30 years. The chosen provider of data on the UK independent healthcare market to the Office for National Statistics, we support our clients by providing market intelligence, consulting and data solutions.
Advisory, Consultancy, Data Solutions, Healthcare Specialist
Leecare
Leecare is a leading UK and international social and retirement care sector software system supporting all CQC and external regulatory outcomes for resident and operational management.
Designed by senior care expert clinical and management staff, the program will assist you to predict, record and evidence your operational outcomes, manage your HR, health and safety and staff training needs, track your assets and suppliers and build a continuous improvement programme all whilst exceeding audit requirements.
Data Solutions, Healthcare Specialist, People Services, Retirement Communities, Technology
Life3a
Life3A provide architectural and masterplanning services dedicated to the later living sector. We are experts in the sector with over two decades of experience. Our knowledge enables us to support our clients in a strategic and commercial way in addition to our core design services. We have a close network of partners and consultants who also know the sector well and we work in close collaboration with them to provide a full service from feasibility study to completion. Our aim is to find the best outcomes for our clients in terms of their commercial success and to improve the lives of the older people who will become the residents of the buildings we design. We participate in and carry out research for our clients and continually feed this back into our work. We aim to create environments that are high quality and that support older people in living their best lives. Where people have a sense of belonging and are empowered to make their own choices. We have experienced staff in international offices who also work in the later living sector which enables us to learn about new trends and different models of housing and care in different market contexts. This can often liberate our thinking as we work within the UK market. We believe in building relationships for success and sharing our knowledge to support the development of this vital sector. Anne-Marie Nicholson is the Principal of the UK practice with over 25 years of expertise in the later living sector.
Advisory, Architecture, Consultancy, Design, Retirement Communities
Live More Capital
LiveMore offer mortgages designed for life aged 50-90+. Mortgages open ownership in Integrated Retirement Communities (IRCs) to a whole new audience, including people who thought renting was their only option. For operators, they support selling new sites or re-selling existing units. Through LiveMore, selling IRC homes has never been simpler. We can refer potential IRC residents for a no obligation chat to discuss how they can afford their dream home. Customers love our personalised service, reflected in our Excellent TrustPilot rating. We manually underwrite every application, and our dedicated team of experts are only ever a phone call or email away. We're here to connect IRCs with new customers – get in touch to hear how LiveMore can help today! (Your home is at risk if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage or other loan secured on it)
Consultancy, Financial Services, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
Lottie
Lottie connects elderly people to the UK's best retirement properties, after being established in July 2021 following its soft launch. Lottie's mission is to empower elderly people to live a happier, healthier and more fulfilled later life whilst helping our partners excel digitally, which in turn will help support their profitability and long-term sustainability.
Advertising, Consultancy, Data Solutions, Marketing and Sales, Technology
Maccreanor Lavington
Maccreanor Lavington are award winning architects and urbanists based in London and Rotterdam. Established in 1992, we are specialists in designing homes and housing of every kind. Responding to the diverse needs of people is at the heart of what we do. Our strength lies in designing exceptionally well-tailored buildings providing a canvas for peoples’ lives. Our extensive experience in extra-care and specialist housing enables us to consider the delivery, long term efficiency and sustainability of every project. Our team is made up of exceptionally talented and dedicated people. We have a wealth of knowledge to draw upon as well as a common passion, energy and enthusiasm for our subject. We have earned a strong and trusted reputation with clients, peers and local authorities and our design work has been recognised with many awards including the RIBA Stirling Prize.
Architecture, Design, Planning
Mayfly Group
Mayfly Group was founded in 2018, specialising in identifying land and real estate opportunities for clients consisting of national and regional operators, developers and funders. Mayfly’s core competencies include brokerage as well as consultancy development services specialising in the elderly care sector by using strategic, demographic-led site evaluation coupled with detailed knowledge of the sector and design principles.
Advisory, Consultancy, Healthcare Specialist, Property Services, Real Estate
Memory Tracks
Memory Tracks® is a care platform that links music to daily tasks to support those living with cognitive impairment such as dementia. The Memory Tracks app can be downloaded from the Apple App Store or the Google Play App Store. Memory Tracks also provides Blue Moon Radio a music radio service for the over 75s.
Health and Wellbeing, Technology
Mills & Reeve
Mills & Reeve is one of the top three UK law firms in the health and care sector by many measures, not least by the amount of work we do across every part of the sector and the scale of our health and care expertise. We have exceptional experience acting for every sort of organisation ranging from the Department of Health and hundreds of NHS and other public sector bodies, many of the regulators (including the key regulator, the Care Quality Commission) through to some of the UK’s largest independent sector health and care providers. Our multi-disciplinary team offer market leading expertise in all key areas of the Later Living market including M&A and corporate work, real estate investment, commercial development, planning, tax, affordable housing, construction, energy (including renewables), environmental, regulatory, health and safety, employment and real estate litigation.
Legal Services, Planning, Property Services, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
Montagu Evans
Montagu Evans is an independent property consultancy, owned and run by a group of partners that are leaders in their respective fields and who are committed to leaving a legacy of quality work that benefits clients, the built environment and society as a whole. At our firm, the owners of the business do the work, meet the clients and have the freedom to assemble their own teams to suit each unique requirement. This highly flexible and collaborative approach, tailoring the talent to the complexity of the work, has enabled us to develop a business that has spanned nearly a century. Our work encompasses planning and development, property management, specialist valuations and transactions. Together we create inspiring places to live, work, communicate and connect. We care about legacy, partnerships and people, advising clients with complex planning and development challenges.
Advisory, Consultancy, Planning, Property Services, Real Estate
Motionspot
Motionspot is a RIBA award winning industry leader in accessible design helping to transform spaces and lives through beautifully designed, accessible environments that deliver independence for anyone with a disability and older people. Motionspot has extensive experience providing design advice and innovative accessible products to leading retirement developments across the UK.
Consultancy, Design, Planning, Property Services
Nexus Media Group, HealthInvestor UK
Investor Publishing is a business information and events company, which focuses on the health, education, nutrition and early-years sectors. Our range of established media titles and sector-leading events provide market intelligence and business connections, underpinned by a long-standing commitment to editorial excellence. Established in 2004, our London-based team of journalists and sector experts provide insight and introductions to complex marketplaces, and our extensive calendar of networking events brings together leading decision-makers in the sectors we cover.
Advertising, Marketing and Sales
Nexus Planning
Nexus Planning are the leading planning experts in the senior living, care and retirement housing sector. We are at the forefront of policy research and represent our clients at national and local level in shaping new planning policies. Our involvement in the senior living and care sector stems from our desire to improve the lives and wellbeing of older people by providing a greater range of accommodation and care choices. Above all, we are passionate to bring about the profound health and wellness benefits which residents enjoy through living in high quality, well designed communities. We have industry leading knowledge of the care and senior living sector. Our understanding of the unique and complex planning considerations which relate to such facilities has led to our enviable track record of securing consents on challenging sites and through appeals.
Planning
Nick Baker Architects
We are an architectural practice focused on the pursuit of quality for our clients, their buildings and their occupants.
Our detailed knowledge of working on IRCs in the sector enables us to bring a quality of understanding and insight to the design process. We bring a sense of place and identity to our design solutions to the highly discerning clients within this sector.
Architecture
Nobi
Nobi enables elderly people to live at their desired place for as long as possible. With its smart lamps Nobi can detect falls and can, if needed, contact family or caregivers quickly. Its smart and subtly designed lamps provide peace of mind for seniors and their families, while improving care and communication. By investing in technology that makes people feel happy and safe in their desired environment for longer, we can meet the challenges of the future. First, our smart lamps were designed to support people living at home, on their own. But the advantages of the Nobi smart lamps are undeniable in integrated retirement communities and residential / nursing care settings too. Nobi lamps efficiently support care professionals and allow them to fully concentrate on their core mission: helping the people to live a happy and comfortable life.
Consultancy, Data Solutions, Health and Wellbeing, Retirement Communities, Technology
Osborne Clarke LLP
How we help businesses in this sector to succeed:
We take a three dimensional approach to providing legal advice. We combine our legal expertise and sector and client understanding with insight into the global issues driving transformation across your industry and your businesses: decarbonisation, digitalisation and urban dynamics. It's why we're so well placed to provide support for your 'now' and your future.
Legal Services, Real Estate
Park Grove Design Ltd.
Great interior design has a positive affect on people's quality of life. Park Grove Design has been working to raise standards of design in retirement and care environments for over two decades. We believe in the principals of ‘Inclusive Design’ and design unique and inspirational spaces where there is no need for adaptations due to limited mobility, dexterity or sight. We have no prescriptive style. Instead, we interpret the needs of our clients and the style of the property into effortlessly sophisticated, high-quality interiors.
Park Grove produces award-winning interiors: from concept design and procurement through to installation.
Design, Health and Wellbeing, Retirement Communities
5 The Priory, Old London Road, Old London Road, Canwell, Sutton Coldfield
B75 5SH, United Kingdom
0333 0160 777
Pegasus Group
Pegasus Group is a leading development consultancy specialising in planning, design, environment, economics and heritage.
The ageing of the UK population means that the provision of appropriate retirement homes and advanced care accommodation is essential. Pegasus Group has considerable experience and knowledge in supporting the delivery of care homes, care villages and assisted living residences.
Services include:
• Planning Applications and Appeals
• S106 & CIL
• Design & Landscape Design
• Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) and Landscape Visual Impact Assessments (LVIA)
• Site assessment and feasibility studies
• Expert witness and evidence for public inquiries
• Representations on emerging policy
• Knowledge of requirements of care operators and development benefits
• Evidence based reports including projections of the need for care, Health Impact Assessments and Economics Benefits analysis
• Project management
• Community consultation
For more information visit www.pegasusgroup.co.uk
Architecture, Consultancy, Design, Planning, Retirement Communities
Pollard Thomas Edwards
Pollard Thomas Edwards (PTE) is a London-based architecture practice specialising in the design of homes, neighbourhoods, public and mixed-use buildings. Since its beginnings in the 1970s, PTE has developed a strong track record working with communities, local authorities and commercial clients to create buildings and places with a distinct people-centric focus. From the HAPPI report (Housing our Ageing Population Panel for Innovation), which we led and co-authored, to New Ground in High Barnet, the UK’s first senior co-housing scheme, we use both research and architectural design to address the challenges and opportunities presented by Britain’s ageing population. We understand the diverse needs of older people and the role that good design can play, whether providing beautiful and spacious apartments, creating an inviting hub for the surrounding community or designing a sensory garden for dementia sufferers. Our work ranges from independent homes for downsizers, through extra care schemes offering wellbeing and hospitality facilities as well as support services, to fully serviced care homes and retirement housing tailored to the needs of older LGBT+ people.
Architecture, Design, Planning, Project Management
Pozzoni Architecture Ltd
Pozzoni is an innovative architectural practice, established in 1983. From our offices in Altrincham and Brighton, we deliver projects across the UK. Our award winning designs have given us a breadth of experience across the full range of senior living: retirement villages, assisted living and a recognised expertise in dementia design.
Architecture, Design, Retirement Communities
Prime
Across the UK and Ireland, Prime has built a reputation for delivering in excess of £1 billion worth of imaginative, high quality, award-winning developments. We operate across the entire health and care market. Known for our commercial know-how and specialist property and funding expertise, we are delivering cutting-edge clinical facilities as well as a host of exciting commercial developments and investment opportunities – from specialist care villages to innovative car parking solutions. Whatever the project, the end goal is always the same – to create tailored solutions that enhance the patient, client and staff experience, support improved health outcomes and offer excellent value for money.
Construction, Health and Wellbeing, Property Services, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
Puma Property Finance Limited
Puma Property Finance delivers loans from £5m to £50m to all sectors throughout the UK and Ireland, including residential and operational real estate. We are part of Puma Investments, an award-winning asset manager with a strong track record in property finance, private and listed equities. Our 30-strong team deploys first-charge development loans at leverage of up to 70% loan to value (75% for development exit loans) and 85% loan to cost. We offer three core loan products: stretch senior development loans, pre-development bridge finance for site acquisition and post-development exit finance. As well as financing residential and commercial developments, we also specialise in providing development and associated bridge facilities to a range of operational asset classes including care homes, student accommodation and hotels. We have offices in London, Edinburgh and the North West and, to date, have lent over £900m. With our experienced team and nationwide network, we are a reliable lender of choice for professional developers throughout the UK and Ireland.
Financial Services, Real Estate
Saunders Boston Architects
Saunders Boston Architects provide Architectural and Interior Design services from inception to completion, including feasibility studies. Our specialist team is delivering private and publically funded specialist Retirement Living and Care developments from £1m to £50m+. Director Darren Heffer co-chairs the Housing LIN Steering Committee and is an Extra Care Strategy Panel member.
Architecture, Consultancy, Design, Planning, Retirement Communities
Silverbridge Properties Ltd
Silverbridge Properties is a family-run property finance company, with over 60 years’ experience in buying and selling homes. We offer highly competitive Part Exchange schemes to many of the UK’s leading retirement property developers that help their customers move quickly, with the minimum of stress, and as cost-effectively as possible. We will consider ANY property type at ANY value and can provide an offer within 24 hours. Contracts can be exchanged within 28 days and final completion dates be can extremely flexible. We can also take the stress out of your customer’s move by allowing them to remain in their property for up to 2 weeks after completion. Should the property chain break down, we can step in with our Chain Break service. This provides an instant repair, anywhere along the chain, enabling you to regain control of the sales process. We also provide Assisted Move schemes, where we manage the whole selling process for your customer, from placing their property on the market right through to sale; and costing them no more than if they were to do it themselves.
Financial Services, Marketing and Sales, Property Services
Social Care Works
Social Care Works provides strategic, operational and communication advice to operators who support people in later life. With experience of commissioning, operational and risk management, governance, property, clinical, healthcare, stakeholder communication, regulatory and crisis management, Sara Livadeas and Amanda Evelyn are ready to provide advice and assistance.
Health and Wellbeing, Healthcare Specialist, Real Estate, Regulatory Risk Management, Retirement Communities
Sovereign Property Partnership
We are Scotland’s leading experts in retirement housing research and consultancy. Our population is ageing and we work with institutions to develop research so we can advise developers on the types of housing older people are interested in now and in the future.
Consultancy, Marketing and Sales, Planning, Property Services, Retirement Communities
Spring
Spring are the largest and most dependable Home-Buyer in the UK, giving home sellers certainty and confidence in the sale of their property. Our customer-centric approach provides an effortless home buying experience for our partners and their customers. Spring also takes a unique and bespoke approach to our partnerships – whether acting as a full part-exchange provider with a seamless end-to-end tailored support, or as a consultant that can advise on funding, customer experience and tailored marketing. Our home-buying solutions do the hard work, so you don't have to, we continue to innovate to that end, reducing the time and effort needed by our partners to implement successful PX, Home-Buying and Managed Sale Services. Spring actively supports all sizes and types of developers to unlock sales and time consuming chains, particularly during challenging market conditions. Our guaranteed level of funding provides the ability to complete on transactions quickly, injecting certainty and momentum into sales pipelines.
Advisory, Marketing and Sales, Property Services, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
Promenade House, The Promenade, Clifton, The Promenade, Clifton, Bristol
BS8 3NE, United Kingdom
0117 974 3271
Stride Treglown Ltd
An employee-owned architectural practice of over 300 people, with a wealth of experience from high-dependency and dementia care facilities to retirement villages. Our approach is underpinned by knowledge of the research, alongside our fundamental belief in the importance of creating homes that people enjoy living in. We think. We design. We deliver.
Architecture, Design, Health and Wellbeing, Retirement Communities
Teal
Teal Living A range of design led furniture and furnishings aimed at the residential care market, Teal LIVING has been designed to create the perfect balance between ergonomic design and distinctive styling, without compromising on the specific needs of dementia and elderly care. To enhance quality of life, by creating contemporary spaces that promote safety, comfort, and independence. Teal LIVING is a brand with a design and manufacturing wisdom that spans 40 years. Owned by The Senator Group, the largest commercial manufacturer of contract furniture in the UK, Senator is a family-run company and a leader in research, development and design. Defined by independent thinking and a genuine desire to transform interiors, we design furniture to excite, inspire and invigorate, creating beautiful living spaces sensitive to users’ needs. As part of a full turnkey solution we offer window dressings, bedding and scatter cushions and our project team can assist with lighting, artwork and accessories, all fully installed by our trained in-house team.
Design, Healthcare Specialist, Project Management, Property Services, Retirement Communities
Terence O'Rourke
Terence O'Rourke Ltd (TOR) is an award winning town planning, design and environmental consultancy with offices in London, Birmingham and Bournemouth. Founded in 1985, we have an enviable record of securing planning permissions and have achieved at least a 94% success rate in each of the last five years. We can provide town planning, heritage, EIA, landscape, masterplanning viability and architectural advice to our clients. TOR has been involved in the delivery of care facilities and accommodation for older people for over twenty years and is looking forward to helping the housing with care sector expand. Where possible, we strive to avoid costly, time-consuming and uncertain planning appeals through negotiation with councils and key stakeholders. However, when necessary, we contest appeals and are able to provide experienced expert witnesses for public inquiries across all of our disciplines. We take care to listen to and understand our client’s development objectives throughout a project, so if you would like to informally discuss a potential development, a potential site or a specific planning, design, heritage or other environmental issue you are facing, please contact us.
Architecture, Consultancy, Design, Planning
Tetlow King
Tetlow King Planning Ltd is a leading town planning and development consultancy operating nationwide. We provide professional advice to a range of clients across the public and private sectors with experience in planning for all types of development, with particular speciality in retirement and care schemes.
Planning
The Care Workers' Charity
The Care Workers’ Charity was first set up to help the UK’s almost 2 million care workers to get through financial crises. We provide crisis grants to care workers, signpost them to support services and work to raise the profile of their vital work.
We know this changes lives – every month the people we help tell us how a CWC grant has enabled them to face the future with renewed hope.
While financial help can be all that is needed in some cases, we also recognise that many issues faced by individuals working in care cannot be fixed by grants alone. We are working with care workers and care providers to tackle these issues, creating the support structures that people need whilst actively promoting the immense contribution that care workers make to our society.
Health and Wellbeing, Retirement Communities
The Joy Club
The Joy Club is an online activities and community partner for retirement living brands. Through The Joy Club, retirees can join over 100 interactive, online events each month. The event programme provides fitness activities that meet the NHS and WHO recommendations for physical activity for older adults, as well as providing opportunities for learning, creativity and socialising with other members and event facilitators. Members also benefit from access to exclusive daily content, including interviews, videos and opinion pieces. These articles and videos serve to inspire, inform and uplift our members, as well as being a place for those on the website to build a sense of community. Members are encouraged to join the conversation around articles and in the forums, to connect with other members, event facilitators and The Joy Club Community Team. Partnering with The Joy Club enables retirement living brands to go further in supporting retirees to stay active, connected and joyful.
Health and Wellbeing, Retirement Communities, Technology
The Salt Cave
Our company provides a unique solution for retirement communities to treat their clients with chronic respiratory conditions, such as COPD, asthma, bronchiectasis, Cystic Fibrosis, etc.
Health and Wellbeing, Healthcare Specialist, Retirement Communities
TLT
TLT is an award-winning law firm with offices in London, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow & Edinburgh. TLT provides a full range of legal services to businesses, organisations and the public sector involved in housing for older people and the care and support sector. We advise operators on social care issues, regulation, health and safety and employment as well as dealing with the sale, purchase and building of new housing with care. We understand the legal and regulatory challenges facing operators in this sector and the importance of the full integration of the supply of care and support alongside good quality housing.
Advisory, Legal Services, Regulatory Risk Management
ukactive
ukactive exists to improve the health of the nation by getting more people, more active, more often. ukactive provides services and facilitates partnerships for a broad range of organisations, all of which support our vision and have a role to play in achieving that goal. We represent and champion over 7,000 members and partners from across the public, private and third sectors, from multinational giants to local voluntary community groups. We do so by facilitating partnerships, campaigning and providing outstanding membership services.
Consultancy, Health and Wellbeing, People Services, Planning, Project Management
Walker Morris LLP
We can work with you on all legal aspects of retirement living. Whether that’s in integrated retirement communities, multi-generational developments, retirement villages, supported living facilities, care homes or sheltered housing. We recognise the different priorities and challenges you might face such as planning constraints or the trend towards rental opportunities. We will help you navigate them. We have over 30 years’ experience in the retirement living and care sector. We provide complete support covering the full lifecycle of senior living and care assets, including: property acquisition/disposal, planning, development and construction; Our clients and our approach
estate and lease set up, including plot sales;
portfolio management;
employment, pensions and benefits;
mergers and acquisitions;
housing management, including enforcement of occupational agreements;
technology;
contract management;
green investment and net zero strategies;
disputes, investigations and prosecutions;
inquests and regulatory matters.
We work with investors, funders, contractors, developers and operators. We regularly advise some of the largest operators in the UK. We partner with our clients, adding value, whilst investing in the long-term relationship.
Planning, Real Estate, Regulatory Risk Management, Retirement Communities, Technology
Wates Group
CREATING TOMORROW TOGETHER
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.
Advisory, Construction, Consultancy, Project Management, Property Services
West Waddy Archadia
An innovative multi-disciplinary design consultancy creating outstanding people-centric places that care for our heritage with expertise in providing specialist housing for older people and people with disabilities and special needs. We use our cross-sector wealth of experience in development to deliver consistently high-quality projects on time and on budget.
Architecture, Consultancy, Design, Planning
Wifinity Ltd
Wifinity is a broadband and managed internet service provider. Since starting out over 15 years ago we’ve served over 7 million people across the UK. Now backed by Lloyds Development Capital (LDC) and with over 200 employees, we serve the MDU & private residential, education, defence, leisure and later living sectors. We understand your need to have reliable, fast internet. That's why Wifinity's WiFi is building wide ensuring that residents, staff and visitors can walk around on their own private network. Our designs are IoT enabled and use the latest generation WiFi 6 ready Ruckus Access Points and gigabit infrastructure too so you have the best experience for years to come.
Technology
wrdunn. Architects
We are an award winning practice of Chartered Architects, Chartered Building Surveyors, Historic Building Consultants, Interior Designers and Graphic Designers. Having been established for 34+ years we work on a wide ranging portfolio of properties within various sector, with specific focus on the private over 55's retirement and care sector. Our focus is high-end retirement, care + assisted living, and care home developments nationally. Our experience within the sector combines with our architectural passion, to design later living environments that both users and operators are proud of.
Advisory, Architecture, Consultancy, Design, Healthcare Specialist