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).

AEW Architects

Architecture Practice

Main Contact
Colin Savage
Commercial Director

Trinity Court, 16 John Dalton Street, Manchester, M2 6HY
T: 0161 214 4370
M: 07388 948438
E: main@aewarchitects.com
www.aewarchitects.com

Regions covered: Nationwide

About AEW Architects
AEW Architects is a multi-award winning, RIBA Chartered Practice, founded in 1992. For the past 30 years we have provided architectural, conservation, interior design, masterplanning, sustainability and retrofit services across our specialist sectors.

Our older living residential sector experience spans from the refurbishment of listed buildings to bespoke rural homes to award-winning residential masterplans and the design of contemporary apartment complexes.

Regardless of the typology or service offered, our approach as residential architects is always underpinned by a commitment to placemaking and sustainability. This ensures high-quality, sustainable homes for residents, now and long into the future.

In undertaking our work, we understand the importance of conserving historical and listed buildings and the sensitivities of working in conservation areas. Our dedicated AABC architectural heritage and sustainability teams allow us to offer expert opinion on projects that include or affect heritage assets and historical buildings.

Winckworth Sherwood LLP

Law Firm

Contact Details
Charlotte Cook
Partner

Arbor, 255 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 9AX
T: 020 7593 5107
M: 07949 841 414
E: ccook@wslaw.co.uk
W: www.wslaw.co.uk

Region/s covered: UK wide

About Winckworth Sherwood LLP
We work extensively on the provision of care and supported housing, from both the development and provider perspectives as well as on the management and support of those schemes. We work for many clients including RPs, almshouses, local authorities, charities, lenders, private providers and agencies and management bodies.

We offer the advantage of a full service law firm with a deep knowledge of the care sector, with expertise in care and support, commercial, constitutional and governance matters, asset management, property dispute resolution and litigation, employment and HR, construction, energy and property finance.

Our clients span the public and private sectors including key partners for you such as developers, local authorities and landowners. This means we understand the cultural and legal drivers for these organisations, allowing us to help you develop constructive relationships in negotiations, whilst remaining focussed on your objectives and protecting your interests.

The WayFinders Group

Multi-Disciplinary Organisation Change Consultancy

Contact Details
Leah Brown
Founder and CEO

128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX

T: 0208 058 3920
E: contact@charttheuncharted.com
W: www.charttheuncharted.com

Regions Covered: UK wide

About WayFinders Group
We are The WayFinders Group, a multi-disciplinary organisational change consultancy advising clients in the UK and further afield.

We empower and energise you to unearth and chart a different way forward, together – through valuesdriven, powerful problem-solving.

Through our three sub-brands comprising advisory, consultative, facilitative, educational, design-oriented methods and services, we help leaders and organisations navigate complexity, conflict and chaos.

Our aim is to help leaders pivot so they can step into a future filled with transformed and reconciled people, organisations and communities that are making a positive difference in our world.

Lee Bolton Monier-Williams LLP

Law firm

Contact Details
Archie Sherbrooke
Partner and Head of Commercial Property

1 The Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1P 3JT
T: 0207 222 5381 M: 07749 706 410
E: archie.sherbrooke@lbmw.com
W: www.lbmw.com

Regions Covered: England and Wales

About Lee Bolton Monier-Williams LLP
LBMW work with a variety of charities from small enterprises, religious and educational institutions through to national charities and large grant making organisations.

We have particular expertise in acting for charities with substantial property portfolios and advise on the implications of the Charities Act on property assets. We are regularly asked by our charity clients to provide strategic property advice and work closely with our Charity team to ensure that our clients understand and work within the confines of their trusts/governing documents.

KKE Architects

Architects

Contact details
Kerry Ward
Office Manager

Danks Warehouse, 60 Diglis Road, Worcester, WR5 3BW
T: 01905 358626
E: info@kkearchitects.co.uk
www.kkearchitects.co.uk

Regions covered: UK wide

About KKE Architects

KKE Architects is an award winning practice, established in 2005. We specialise in healthcare design, especially the design of hospices and palliative care. The practice has a keen agenda to work on socially orientated projects, and as a result we have experience working with a range of charitable organisations. We are experienced in all aspects of almshouse development and have worked with a number of almshouse charities.

  • We offer a full range of professional services which include:
  • Feasibility studies
  • RIBA professional services from inception through to completion
  • Planning & listed building applications
  • Project Management
  • New almshouse designs
  • Sustainable/green design
  • Alterations and extensions
  • Principal Designers under the CDM Regulations 2015

The work of the practice has received recognition through numerous awards including winner of the RIBA National Award 2018, numerous regional RIBA awards, Architect Journal Awards, RICS awards, Civic Trust awards, the Eisteddfod Gold Medal and the UK Passive House Award. The St Johns Almshouse was the AJ Winner of the Residential project of the year in 2018.

  • Architects Journal awards 2018 – St Johns, Lichfield, Winner of Residential project of the year 
  • UK Passivhaus Awards 2018 – St Johns, Lichfield, Finalist      
  • The Almshouse Association Patron’s Award 2017 -St Johns, Lichfield

Brown and Co LLP

Architects, Property Consultancy

Contact details
Sandra Muller
Architect, Senior Associate

The Atrium, St Georges St, Norwich NR3 1AB
T: 01603 629871
M: 07721 241711
E: sandra.muller@brown-co.com
www.brown-co.com

Regions covered

Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Lincolnshire, Greater London, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire.

About Brown and Co LLP

Services
Brown & Co offer a full range of architectural, planning and master planning services. We positively engage with stakeholders, communities, and local authorities to create inclusive projects. We offer full architectural services including:

  • Heritage Statements
  • Quinquennial Inspections
  • Feasibility Appraisal
  • Planning and Listed Building Applications
  • Building Regulation Applications
  • Specifications, Tendering and Contract Administration

Projects

  • Refurbishment of Trinity Hospital in Greenwich and Trinity Hospital in Shotesham
  • Adaptation of almshouses to comply with DDA Regulations
  • The Great Hospital Norwich. Alteration to Mottram House
  • Adoptable private dwellings for full life occupations (Hornor Close, Norwich)
  • M4(2) & M4(3) Almshouse designs for regional development (Scott Properties)

Accreditations

  • Sandra Muller has obtained an M.A. in Heritage Conservation and RIBA accreditation as a Conservation Registrant.
  • Sandra Muller (in a previous practice) was the recipient of two Almshouse Association Patron’s Awards in 2010, 2011
  • Sandra is a Quinquennial Inspector for the Diocese of Norwich