Rebuild Cost Assessment Ltd

Rebuild Cost providers

Main Contact
John Pirone
Business Development Manager
Mey House, Poundbury, Dorchester, DT1 3QY
T: 01305 215535
M: 07729 099 211 (John Pirone)
E: info@rebuildcostassessment.com
john.pirone@riskstopgroup.co.uk
W: https://www.rebuildcostassessment.com

Regions Covered: UK (inc NI)
About Rebuild Cost Assessment Ltd

Established in 2016, RebuildCostassessment.com is a leading specialist in rebuild cost consultancy, dedicated exclusively to providing accurate and reliable rebuild cost assessments. As part of the Riskstop Group, which has been operating since 2001, we focus solely on our expertise, without diversions into loss adjusting or market valuation services.
Our credentials include:
 Regulated by RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors)
 ISO 27001 certification, ensuring robust information security management
 FSQS certification, reflecting our commitment to compliance and quality
With an impressive operational scale, we produce approximately 5,000 reports each month, totalling over
175,000 reports completed to date. Our trusted services are utilised by a diverse client base, including
over 1,400 brokers, insurers, managing agents, and property owners.

Birketts LLP

Solicitors

Main Contact
Louisa Saunders
Legal Director, Head of Charity Property

Providence House, 141-145 Princes Street, Ipswich IP1 1QJ
T: 01473 406331/232300
E: charitiesteam@birketts.co.uk
W: www.Birketts.co.uk

Regions covered: East Anglia, London, South East, South West

About Birketts LLP

Carless + Adams

Architects

Contact details
Indeep Chana
Architectural Technician Arch BSc (Hons), MArch

6 Progress Business Centre, Whittle Parkway, Bath Road, Slough, Berkshire SL1 6DQ

T: 01628 665 131
E: ichana@carless-adams.co.uk
W: www.carless-adams.co.uk

Area covered: UK

About Carless + Adams
Carless + Adams is an award-winning, independent Architectural Practice, providing professional advice and services in architecture. The business began in 1972 and became a limited company in 2019.

Our team has successfully delivered a wide spectrum of projects within the sector, including care homes (residential and nursing), dementia care homes, integrated retirement communities, extra care apartments, cottages and retirement villages, extra care apartments, healthcare centre, specialist care, refurbishment and extensions, green belt, heritage assets and conservation areas.

It is a privilege to be part of something influential in the care industry and we are proud to have received the following recent awards:

Wins: The Business Magazine – Architectural Practice of the Year 2023

Accreditation: Thames Valley SME Growth 100

Finalist: Health Investor Senior Awards 2024 – Architect + Design of the Year; The Business Magazine – Architectural Practice of the Year 2024; Leaders in Care 2024 – Business Services

Hampstead Building Service Limited

Construction & Property Services

Contact Details
Mahmoud Abouelhassan
Director
A 80-82 Loveridge Road
London
NW6 2DT

T: 020 8092 0617
M: 07846536353
E: info@hampsteadbuildingservicelimited.com
W: https://hampsteadbuildingserviceltd.com

Regions covered: London & surrounding areas

About Hampstead Building Service Limited

With over 15 years of experience, we specialise in refurbishment, restoration, repairs, and a full range of property services.
We are based in London and are known for reliable, high-quality work and a commitment to making every project smooth and stress free.
We are fully insured and regularly complete void refurbishments, kitchen & accessible bathroom fittings, and a range of other maintenance services.
We offer a 24/7 emergency repair line, complete electrical safety checks and issue EICR Certificates.

S+SA Architects

ARCHITECTS

Contact details
Claudia Costa
Design Development Lead

5A The Avenue, Starbeck, Harrogate HG1 4QB

T: 01423 856 999
M: 07734 664 343
E: claudiacosta@ssa-architects.co.uk
W: www.ssa-architects.co.uk

Region/s covered: UK

About S+SA
S+SA is a dynamic practice with an excellent reputation and a wide-ranging client portfolio spanning the UK. Specialising in residential, retail & logistics, healthcare and sport & leisure, excellence of service and professionalism are at the core of all our commissions.

We work with clients on projects from £250,000 to £50 million value, in both private and public sectors and we pride ourselves in our creativity and design ability.  As a recently certified B Corp, S+SA Architects is committed to supporting charities and making a positive impact on the communities we serve. This certification underscores our dedication to sustainability, social responsibility, and adding value to the environments in which we work.

Tozers LLP

Solicitors

Contact Details
James Evans
Partner & Solicitors, Head of Charities


Broadwalk House
Southernhay West
Exeter EX1 1UA
T: 011392 207896
M: 07974215018
E: j.evans@tozers.co.uk
W: www.tozers.co.uk

Region/s Covered:
Primarily South-West England, England & Wales

About Tozers LLP
Tozers LLP is a full-service law firm with offices in Exeter and south Devon, serving clients across the South West and throughout the UK.
Our charities team headed by James Evans (ranked as a leader in his field in both the Legal 500 and Chambers legal directories) has significant specialist expertise in providing legal support over many years to a wide range of charitable organisations including many almshouse charities.
We can provide almshouses with legal support on:
Start-ups and charity registration
Incorporations, including transitioning to CIO status
Governance and constitutional issues
Charity law and other regulatory compliance
Dealings with the Charity Commission
Property transactions and developments
Housing management issues
Employment/HR matters
Litigation and dispute resolution
Legacy administration and contested probate
Commercial contracts
Intellectual property
Data protection
Fundraising, trading and finance
Mergers, collaborations and closures
Tozers is highly ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers legal directories and is the only south west law firm ranked for charities work which has received the Legal 500 Client Satisfaction accolade. Our other accreditations include the LawNet ISO9001:2015 quality assurance standard, and the Law Society’s Lexcel legal practice quality mark.

Terrace Surveyors Ltd

Chartered Building Surveyors & Built Heritage Consultants

Contact Details
Richard Gilmore MRICS
Director

Suite 6, 37a Market Place, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 2NX
T: 01285840743
M: 07930527007
E: richard@terracesurveyors.co.uk
W: www.terracesurveyors.co.uk

Regions covered: Gloucestershire, Cotswolds, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Herefordshire, Warwickshire, Berkshire, London

About Terrace Surveyors Ltd

Terrace is a Gloucestershire-based Surveying and Built Heritage Consultancy offering residential and commercial building surveying and project management services across the Cotswolds, neighbouring counties and southern England.

Specialising in listed and traditional buildings, we routinely work with almshouse charities and trusts, providing expert advice on:

  • statutory consents
  • planning
  • maintenance
  • defect diagnosis, including damp surveys, quinquennial inspections
  • advise on matters of energy upgrades and retro-fit.

Our team is regulated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and we have collaborated with Historic England and other heritage organisations on conservation and refurbishment projects, including highly designated assets and scheduled monuments. Past and current projects include:

  • structural repairs and implementing a Conservation Management Plan for the St John’s Chantry medieval hall-hospital, Cirencester.
  • advising the Bowly Almshouse Trust in relation to individual property refurbishments and gaining statutory approvals for works
  • undertaking a Quinquennial inspection of the St Lawrence Almshouse Charity’s stock within Cirencester.





Browne Jacobson LLP

Legal Services

Main Contact
Nathalie Jacoby-Danesh
Partner

Mowbray House, Castle Meadow Road, Nottingham NG2 1BJ
T: 03300452833 
E: nathalie.jacoby-danesh@brownejacobson.com
W: www.brownejacobson.com

Regions covered: Nationwide

About Browne Jacobson LLP

Almshouses are complex charities, often combining ancient governing documents with permanent endowments and restricted funds, real estate portfolios and other investments and operating in a regulated field with responsibilities towards often vulnerable residents.

The Browne Jacobson charities team offers a full range of legal services to its clients. Guided by our core values, we try to keep the complex simple and provide strategic as well as pragmatic advice, on time and on budget. We advise on small and large matters of charity law, compliance with Charity Commission guidance, serious incidents, inquiries, governance audits, policy reviews, trustee training, amendments to governing documents, incorporations, conflicts of interests, health and safety, commercial contracts for the provision of goods and services, sale and purchase of real estate, commercial and agricultural properties, defamation, data protection, banking arrangements, tax matters and claims.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Law Firm

Contact Details

  • Virginia Henley
    Partner
  • Saffa Mir
    Associate

125 Wood Street, London, EC2V 7AW

T: +44 (0)20 7457 3000
E: Virginia Henley Virginia.Henley@penningtonslaw.com
E: Saffa Mir Saffa.Mir@penningtonslaw.com
W: www.penningtonslaw.com

Regions covered: Basingstoke, Birmingham, Cambridge, Guildford, London, Reading

About Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Penningtons Manches Cooper is a full-service law firm which operates across an extremely wide range of sectors enabling us to meet all the legal needs of almshouse charities. Our newly established charities team brings together experts in the charity field who have each long experience of working with countless almshouse charities. Our team’s previous almshouse client experience includes:-

  • Conversions to become a CIO
  • Mergers
  • Governance support and advice
  • Reviews and drafting of policies and procedures
  • Cy pres schemes and applications to the Charity Commission to enable changes to objects
  • Identifying and advising on the use of permanent endowment
  • Disputes and anti-social behaviour
  • Disposals and other use of almshouse property
  • Correspondence with the Charity Commission and serious incident reporting

Our Charities team works closely with colleagues across the firm to enable us to provide Almshouse charities with the full support they need.

Corporate Architecture Limited

Architectural Service

Main Contact

Malcolm Foulkes-Arnold
Managing Director

Venari House, 1 Trimbush Way, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 7XY, United Kingdom

T: 01858 467476
E: mvfa@cal.design

www.corporatearchitecture.co.uk

Regions covered: National, East Midlands Based

About Corporate Architecture Limited

Corporate Architecture Limited is an award-winning architectural practice offering bespoke design solutions across residential, commercial, retail, and industrial sectors. With over 30 years of experience, we provide a full range of services, from concept design and planning applications to project management, interior design, and historic building restoration, ensuring high-quality, sustainable architecture that balances functionality with aesthetic appeal.

Our diverse portfolio includes prestigious projects like the award-winning Wyggestons Hospital, which received the Almshouse Association Inspirational Homes Award 2021. 

Additionally, we are honoured to support meaningful initiatives, partnering with the Diocese of Leicester on community-based projects and collaborating with charities focused on homelessness, including One Roof Leicester with their new head office and accommodation in Leicester and working alongside Allia Future Homes, Jimmy’s and New Meaning on the modular pod’s in Cambridge. Through these projects, we are committed to delivering tailored solutions that reflect each client’s unique needs and vision.

We are accredited by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and ARB, upholding the highest standards of professional excellence, and hold ISO certifications in quality, safety, environmental management, and information security (ISO 9001, 45001, 14001 & 27001).