South West 2025

Our customer-first approach keeps people at the heart of everything we do. Pastel delivers cutting-edge technology without losing that personal touch, fostering long-term partnerships with our customers in order to provide smart, tailored business communications. 

With constant market analysis and years of experience, we have built a knowledgeable team that knows how to deliver cost-competitive and flexible solutions. We have worked with businesses of all sizes across a wide range of industries, so we’re confident we can help your business, too.

Aico, an Ei Company, are the European market leader in home life safety, pioneering new technologies and offering high-quality alarms, developed and manufactured in Ireland. All Aico alarms meet UK standards and offer a variety of sensor types to guarantee protection for every home, the cornerstone of which is delivering education, quality, service and innovation. Aico has expanded their Connected Home offering through HomeLINK. HomeLINK is a multi-award-winning high-tech software team within Aico that leverage cutting edge home integration and analytic technologies to address the needs of social landlords and their residents.

With new innovations in Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, the notion of a connected home could prove a real asset in making our homes not only more sustainable but also more efficient and ultimately safer – with a focus on wellbeing. Adding another dimension to home life safety, Aico strives to create safer, healthier homes.

We have a long history of providing legal support to registered providers. Our specialists team offer clients a full range of legal services. We help you to bring new development projects to the market, navigate financial and regulatory constraints, and deal with ongoing property management issues. Our team is listed in both the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners Legal directories which praises team members who “go out of their way to connect on a personal level”.

Part of the LHC Procurement Group, the South West Procurement Alliance (SWPA) was launched in October 2019.

The relationship between LHC PG and the local team gives SWPA the unique position of having local knowledge and relationships, while also benefiting from additional resources and expertise from a national framework provider.

SWPA provides compliant frameworks, which can be used by local authorities, social landlords and other public sector organisations to procure works, products and services for the construction, refurbishment and maintenance of social housing, schools, and public buildings. As a not-for-profit organisation, we return any surplus to our associate partners to improve social value outcomes in accordance with our vision 'improving lives and places through quality procurement solutions'.

Cobb Warren is a law firm specialising in housing management and property litigation for registered providers of social housing. It is a unique niche practice with extensive experience in advising and representing social housing providers, dealing with housing management legal work, advocacy and litigating commercial and property disputes on their behalf. It is a partner-led firm, supported by a dedicated team.

TristoneNash are a specialist Housing & Property recruitment and consultancy business, headquartered in Bristol, with regional offices based in South Wales and the Southwest. We’re a personable company offering a bespoke service, whose mission is to match talented individuals with reputable clients in the housing industry.

Our Housing and Executive Search teams operate UK-wide and help organisations identify and secure diverse operational and senior-level talent. We have partnered with some of the largest Local Authorities and Housing Associations across the UK providing a range of recruitment and consultancy services, placing housing, property & development professionals with our valued clients.

Using our unrivalled sector understanding and our history of supplying to the sector, we have built an extensive database through long term relationships with candidates and clients alike. This allows us to identify candidates suited to an organisation, not only from previous skills and expertise but also due to their fit for the affordable Housing sector.

We are preferred suppliers to various Housing Associations across the country working with local, regional, and national partners and we are passionate in servicing our sector. We believe with our experience, knowledge, candidate resources and added value services at our disposal, we are ideally placed to offer the highest levels of recruitment support available.

SWITCH HOUSING

ASSIONATE ABOUT HELPING PEOPLE,
ALL FAMILIES ARE OUR CUSTOMERS.

‍Switch Housing is a multi solutions housing company that was formed in 2020 during the Covid pandemic when our hospitality group kept 2 hotels open to assist Birmingham City Council’s temporary accommodation demand.  Over the last 3 years switch have gained an invaluable understanding of the Social Housing issues and requirements across all areas. Our key areas for social housing support are:

• Provider and procurement partner for Temporary B&B & Apartment Accommodation with centralised bookings and audit team
• Social housing purchase & lease programs
• Turnkey purchase schemes
• Ad hoc project solutions

To date Switch have provided:

• Over 100,000 hotel rooms and apartments for families across the UK
• 15,000 children’s meals funded via Switch during covid.
• A number of self contained apartment facilities to assist council’s to move families out of B&B accommodation.
• Two red list hotels during covid.

Switch continue to provide:

• Over 1,000 hotel rooms and apartments each week
• Switch currently work with a number of local authorities across England
• Switch provide a suite of services for local authorities to include property inspections, health & safety certification and core standards checks.