We know that connecting with your peers, exhibitors and sponsors gives you the opportunity to consider services and solutions that can help your organisation deliver its mission and social purpose.
Aico
Joint headline sponsors
Aico, an Ei Company, is the European market leader in home life safety. We deliver a fully integrated platform that combines high-quality fire and CO alarms, all meeting UK standards, with Environmental Sensors and intelligent connected home technology to protect residents and their homes.
With both single and multi-sensors, their alarms and environmental sensors are manufactured in Ireland to the highest quality, while their advanced software is developed in Bristol, transforming real-time data into actionable insights.
By uniting trusted hardware with cutting-edge software, Aico enables the creation of safer, healthier, and more sustainable homes.
Stand C10
ARK Consultancy
Joint headline sponsor
For more than 35 years, ARK Consultancy has been driven by a strong desire to see organisations perform at their best. Why? Because this leads to improved homes, stronger communities, and ultimately, better lives.
Our mission is to support the affordable housing sector to achieve its goals and deliver the high-quality homes and services that residents deserve.
We work with our clients to deliver excellent results through high performing people, properties and resources.
Together, we help improve, transform, add value and effect change.
Savills (UK) Ltd
Theatre and lounge sponsor
Our expert team delivers comprehensive valuations of social housing across the UK, supporting loan security, financial reporting, disposals, and stock rationalisation. As the largest dedicated housing valuation team in the sector, we combine deep market insight with meticulous attention to detail and outstanding client service. Trusted by banks, investors, local authorities, and housing associations, we are recognised thought leaders in affordable housing. Whether handling complex portfolios or single assets, our experience ensures every valuation is robust, reliable, and tailored to client needs.
Stand D12
Plentific
Theatre sponsor
Plentific is a multi-award-winning property operations platform that connects landlords, contractors, service providers, and residents through a single end-to-end platform. It combines Resident Experience, Workorder, Contractor, Field Service Management, and Supply Chain expertise in one modular solution, connecting in-house teams with external providers. In a world where connectivity is becoming the norm, Plentific eliminates the challenges created by disconnected systems and fragmented data. With every data point connected in one place, providers gain access to real-time information that delivers clarity across their organisation, enabling data-driven decision making. This connected foundation enables the benefits of AI, helping providers orchestrate operations across portfolios of any size. Today, more than 100 housing providers and 5,000 service providers trust Plentific to help deliver services to more than 3 million residents.
Stand J52
Cardo Group
Theatre sponsor
Cardo Group delivers high quality, customer-focused building maintenance and retrofit services for social housing and public sector buildings.
With offices across England and South Wales, and a values driven team of over 750 operatives and specialist staff working in communities, Cardo offers a national solution with a focus on local delivery and the backing of a sector leader which is trusted by the sector and chosen as a partner by over 50 clients.
Accredited under ISO 9001 and across the full suite of PAS 2030 measures, Cardo’s commitment is to work in partnership with clients to deliver the repairs, maintenance and retrofit solutions that are needed, when they are promised.
The Group’s values of Teamwork, Integrity, Excellence and Respect come from its founders who all started their careers as trade apprentices and are now leaders who care deeply that people should be treated with the care and respect they deserve in and around their homes and buildings.
Stand D40
Housemark
Stage sponsor
Housemark is the UK social housing sector’s leading data intelligence provider, jointly owned by the National Housing Federation and the Chartered Institute of Housing.
Working with over 350 providers representing 3.9 million homes, Housemark delivers trusted, on time data and insight to help landlords stay ahead of regulation, strengthen resilience and make confident, evidence based decisions. Our benchmarking, monthly insight, consultancy and digital tools reveal opportunities to improve services and drive meaningful change.
Stand F24
Mears Group
Lounge sponsor
Mears is one of the UK’s leading housing solutions providers to both the public and private sector. With more than 5,400 employees, we work with clients to help develop, fund and implement innovative housing solutions.
Through long-term, sustainable partnerships we will deliver high quality, value-for-money services to meet our customers’ needs. We will achieve this through a culture which values people, promotes innovation and encourages continuous improvement.
Lovell
Pre-summit dinner sponsor
Lovell, part of Morgan Sindall Group plc, is a leading partnership housing provider working as both developer and contractor across the UK. The company has expertise in housing-led mixed tenure regeneration with specialist teams focussing on refurbishment and retrofit, later living and strategic land to support our Local Authority and Housing Association partners in delivering their investment programmes.
Fortem Solutions Ltd
Showcase stage session sponsor
Founded in 2002, Fortem is a leading property services specialist focused exclusively on the UK social housing sector. The business delivers responsive repairs, voids, planned maintenance, capital works, retrofit, decarbonisation and building safety services for housing associations, local authorities and ALMOs across the UK.
Committed to raising standards in social housing, Fortem's ethos of Every Home Matters is underpinned by long-term, community-focused partnerships and a commitment to embedding the voice of the resident into service delivery, including through its newly established Customer Partnership Board. As part of the Willmott Dixon Group, Fortem continues to invest in innovation, workforce development and best-practice service delivery to improve outcomes for customers and communities.
Alertacall
Showcase stage session sponsor
Founded in 2004, Alertacall helps as many people as possible feel safe, connected and informed by combining award-winning technology and proactive human contact.
Alertacall’s digital engagement service helps housing associations know their customers and properties by putting a portable touchscreen in every home, offering a daily property check through the optional OKEachDay® service, plus repairs reporting, tenant satisfaction surveys and much more. We also offer Beyond Warden Call™, an easier, simpler and lower-cost ‘warden call’ solution with video-door entry, dispersed telecare and peripherals.
Alertacall’s services are tried and trusted by over 50 housing providers nationally.
Book a demonstration through: contact@alertacall.com
Newton
Leaders lunch sponsor
We are a strategic delivery partner to local government and housing associations, delivering transformation which improves outcomes for residents and tenants while creating financially resilient, thriving, and better-connected organisations.
We support with the significant and immediate challenges of today, and reimagine for the future, centred around improving housing operations, reducing homelessness and temporary accommodation, and developing new finance models for growth - all enabled by the innovative use of data, digital and AI. In doing so, our programmes improve tenant safety, satisfaction, and outcomes while helping organisations to rebalance and create the operational and financial headroom to build, develop, and sustainably grow.
Altair Ltd
Exhibition drinks reception sponsor
Altair Ltd is a leading consultancy, dedicated to providing best-in-class advisory, delivery and digital services that add real value to our clients in socially focused sectors. We empower organisations to build better futures by providing high quality expert advice, innovative solutions and strategic guidance that drives excellence and creates a lasting impact and value for communities.
For information about sponsoring at this event please get in touch with Lisa Haddon at the Chartered Institute of Housing at Lisa.Haddon@cih.org