Meet your sponsors

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.

Barclays

Supporting businesses turning over more than £6.5m pa, Barclays Corporate Banking has the banking excellence you’d expect with the data and insights you don’t. We look beyond banking to help you see what really matters. Through our dedicated sector and regional specialists, and the power of the wider Barclays network, we can act on those insights together. We can provide you with innovative financing solutions that help you achieve a more expansive, better-connected future for your business. We’ve supported the Social Housing sector for over 20 years and understand the sector’s challenges and opportunities. See things differently with Big Picture Banking at Barclays.

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Bevan Brittan

Bevan Brittan is a UK-Top 100 national law firm providing a comprehensive range of legal and advisory services to over 800 businesses, as well as being a market-leading firm within housing, local and central government and health and social care. Contact our award-winning team to gain commercial, corporate, property, banking and finance legal advice.

Devonshires

Devonshires is a ‘full service’ law firm operating from offices in London, Leeds, Birmingham & Colchester. Legal services are provided throughout the UK, with clients ranging from some of the world’s largest multi-national corporations to private individuals. Devonshires have specialised in providing legal advice to social housing providers of all kinds (registered and unregistered, for-profit and non-profit, local authorities, and private registered providers) since the early 1970s. We advise clients on the full range of legal issues, including housing management, development (including property and sales), employment, corporate and finance. Our Development, Finance, Securitisation and Housing Management teams are some of the largest in the sector, with strength in depth to deal with the largest and most complex of transactions.

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JLL

JLL is one of the sector’s leading firms of valuers, surveyors, property advisers and agents. Our team has been part of the social housing sector for 30 years. We work with Registered Providers of all types and sizes, funders, investors, developers and local authorities. We advise on the valuation, condition, development and transaction of social housing of all types, throughout the UK. We add value to our clients through the trusted, professional advice and support we give. By optimising the value of housing assets, we enable them to contribute more to meeting housing need and fulfilling our clients’ social purpose.

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Moody's

For more than 115 years, Moody's Ratings has been a leading provider of credit ratings, research, and risk analysis helping businesses, governments, and other entities around the globe to anticipate, adapt and thrive in this era of exponential risk.

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S&P Global Ratings

S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global Inc. (NYSE: SPGI), is a leading provider of credit ratings. Our ratings are essential to driving growth, providing transparency and helping educate market participants so they can make decisions with confidence. With more than 1.1 million credit ratings outstanding, approximately 1,400 credit analysts and a presence in 28 countries, we offer a unique combination of global coverage and local insight. We provide our opinions and research about relative credit risk; market participants gain information to help support the growth of transparent, liquid debt markets worldwide. Learn more at www.spglobal.com/ratings

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Savills

Savills
• Treasury – Savills Financial Consultants
• Valuations
• Development and Regeneration
• Stock condition, compliance, procurement and energy
• Strategic consultancy, asset management and transactions
• Regulation, risk and recovery

Our treasury, valuation, and consultancy teams look forward to seeing you at NHF Finance Conference

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Zurich

We understand the importance of everything you do. At Zurich Municipal, we are committed to protecting the public and voluntary sectors and to keeping our promises.

As the only direct dealing insurer in the sector, we have worked in partnership with the public sector, community organisations, charities, educational institutions, the housing sector, health and non-profit organisations for over 30 years.

We offer the peace of mind that comes with our heritage and financial stability. Our full end to end, in-house team gives you everything you need – from experts who can help you prevent problems before they can occur, to claims and major loss specialists who will get you back up and running, should an incident interrupt your vital work.

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Knowledge Partners

Addleshaw Goddard

Addleshaw Goddard is an international law firm, almost 250 years in the making.
We are proud to be the top nationally ranked firm acting for funders in social housing according to the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners Independent directories and to have held that position for nearly 20 years. We act for almost all funders to the social housing sector across the bank debt, private placement and debt capital markets space and have worked opposite over 300 RPs over the deals.
For over 30 years, our team has focused on financing many of the most innovative, impactful, and pioneering social housing finance transactions.
Across all of our experts, we’re incredibly passionate about the hugely positive social impact of the work which we undertake alongside our clients and their customers.

Capsticks

Capsticks’ housing practice, one of the largest in the country, acts for more than 200 registered providers nationally. Capsticks is renowned for its expertise across development and regeneration, banking and finance, governance and security charging arrangements, as well as housing management, real estate funds and leasehold projects. The team of over 100 specialists provide advice on all types of loan financing, debt capital markets arrangements (including private placements, bonds and EMTN issues), green social and sustainable financing (including non-financial reporting and putting in place of sustainable frameworks), security charging (including stock rationalisation and maximising security values), real estate and healthcare funds, acquisition/development (including innovative joint venture arrangements and JV financing), governance advice (including FCA regulatory, mergers, tenant satisfaction measures and registration of not for profit and for profit RPs) and forward funding schemes.

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Ortec Finance

Ortec Finance is a leading global provider of technology and solutions for risk and return management in the financial and real estate sectors. We provide advanced financial forecasting software to housing associations, helping them to make better investment decisions and optimize their social contributions. With 30 years of experience and more than 200 customers in the Dutch social housing sector, our specialized software helps draw up and stress test business plans, balancing financial and social performance. Our financial planning approach improves efficiency, planning quality, financial control and decision-making.

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Plentific

Asset Management and Decarbonisation Theatre Sponsor

Plentific is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform and tech-enabled Marketplace developed to connect owners, operators, service providers, and residents in a single place, facilitating real-time property operations. Recognised for its award-winning solutions, Plentific helps streamline operations, unlock resources, enhance resident satisfaction, and ensure asset safety. Users benefit from data-driven insights that prompt action, resulting in tangible impact.

Plentific’s solutions include Work Order Management, Resident Engagement, Supply Chain Management, Inspections and Compliance Management.

Committed to building stronger communities where people can thrive, Plentific leverages technology to enhance the lives of 3M+ residents and businesses of 25,000+ service providers worldwide.

RSM

RSM’s specialist social housing group provide audit, tax and consulting services including data governance advisory, service charge reviews, fraud advisory and more, to over 150 registered providers, putting us amongst the top audit providers in the UK. Over the years we have developed a longstanding sector presence and established strong relationships with the Regulator, NHF, Winmark Affordable Housing, sector publications and press.

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Venn

Venn is a specialist investment manager in European private debt with a strong focus on residential real estate, including a consumer residential mortgage lending business, the UK Government-backed Private Rented Sector and Affordable Homes lending schemes, and a range of real estate debt funds.

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Winckworth Sherwood

Winckworth Sherwood’s dedicated legal team is one of the largest in the UK, working with some of the country’s most well-known providers of social housing, for profit providers, and smaller, independent housing associations. We are renowned for our extensive market knowledge, wide-ranging experience and focus on the bigger picture.