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
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.
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.
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.
Timber Frame Supplier & Project Manager
Contact Details
Chris Davenport
Managing Director
409 – 411, Croydon Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3PP
T: 01892 771354
M: 07801 427943
E: chris@solotimberframe.co.uk or nicola@solotimberframe.co.uk
W: www.solotimberframe.co.uk
Regions Covered: UK wide
About Solo Timber Frame
- We design, engineer and build new homes for the self-build and commercial sector.
- We can supply the structural Timber Frame only, or offer a total project management service including provision of warranty for financing purposes.
- We can also undertake conversion and refurb works.
- We are members of the Trading Standards Buy With Confidence Scheme and are Which? Trusted Traders.
Multi-Disciplinary Organisation Change Consultancy
Contact Details
Leah Brown
Founder and CEO
128 City Road, London, EX1V 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.
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
Architects
Main Contact
Ian Bramwell
Director
Mole Architects Ltd, Floor 2, Burleigh House, 52 Burleigh Street, Cambridge CB1 1DJ
T: 01223 913 012
E: ian@molearchitects.co.uk
www.molearchitects.co.uk
Regions Covered: UK
About Mole Architects
Mole Architects is a multi award-winning RIBA Chartered Practice, we design low energy buildings and are Certified Passivhaus designers. We design community buildings, housing, education buildings, workspaces and one-off homes. We act with fairness and integrity, believe that good design combines innovation and common sense, and think above all that buildings should be full of joy. Past projects include Dovehouse Court Almshouses, certified Passivhaus homes for the over 55s and Marmalade Lane, a collaboratively designed co-housing scheme.
Solicitors
Contact details
Marina Leigh
Senior Associate
Senate Court, Southernhay Gardens, Exeter, EX1 1NT
T: 01392 685371.
E: marina.leigh@footanstey.com
W: www.footanstey.com
Regions covered: UK-wide
About Foot Anstey LLP
Foot Anstey LLP write: Foot Anstey LLP’s Charity Property Practice is nationally renowned and respected. We have charity specialists who can manage portfolios, complete property transactions and advise on the full range of disputes and issues arising in relation to residential, commercial and rural land and buildings.
We provide strategic problem-solving advice and assist with dispute resolution if required. Our expertise covers the full range of property and charity property law.
Awards and accreditations
- Top 100 Law Firm
- UK wide Legal Adviser League Table Top 20 *Experian
- Multiple innovation award winners
- Highly Commended, National Law Firm of the Year 2019
*The Lawyer
- Top 10 fastest growing law firms for organic growth *The Lawyer
- Partner Firm of Institute of Legacy Management
Member Firm of Charity Property Association and Charity Retail Association
Fire Risk Assessors & Workplace Safety
Contact Details
Rob Grayson BSc (Hons), MIFireE, DipNEBOSH
Fire Safety Officer
M: 07951 773367
T: 01482 654150
E: fra.grayson@gmail.com
Region/s covered: UK-wide
About Fire Risk Assessors & Workplace Safety
I have proven capability, enthusiasm, commitment, trust, focus and skills with over 30 years’ experience in Humberside Fire and Rescue Service (HFRS) of which 16 year’s was in middle and senior management roles. During my career safety has been at the forefront of emergency operations, during normal daily activities and for the communities I served. I have worked as an operational Fire Fighter through to Group Manager taking command of incidents such as larger scale fires, chemical incidents, explosives, suicides, shipping and train incidents etc. As part of my development I achieved a BSc (Hons) First Class in Safety and Environmental Management in 2011. I have also attended the Fire service College on numerous residential safety related courses for in excess of a year. This has assisted in equipping me with the ability to conduct Fire Risk Assessments, Auditing of Fire Risk Assessments and delivery of IOSH Managing Safely & Working Safely Courses.
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