Trowers & Hamlins is an international law firm dedicated to helping businesses, investors, and public bodies build resilient, sustainable, and economically successful communities. We are deeply invested in the future of towns and cities, recognising that real estate is not just a physical asset, but the foundation on which societies evolve and economies grow.

Our multidisciplinary real estate practice spans the private and public sectors, covering everything from residential and commercial developments to complex mixed-use schemes. We provide strategic, commercially-focused legal advice that supports growth, drives innovation, and delivers long-term value.

Within the retirement living sector, we are proud to be longstanding strategic partners of ARCO, supporting the sector’s evolution since its earliest days. We bring decades of experience and an in-depth understanding of the commercial, legal, and operational factors that shape the market, from regulatory frameworks to shifting demographics and investor priorities.

Our work underpins the development of sustainable, liveable retirement communities. We combine legal rigour with sector insight to help our clients navigate challenges, seize opportunities, and deliver schemes that work—for residents, operators, investors, and wider communities.

Clear River supports clients with their property sourcing and acquisition requirements.

Care home administration system, for productivity, efficiency and profitability

CoolCare’s ‘all in one’ cloud-based administration solution is specifically designed for care homes operators who wish to bring the benefits of automation, collaboration and transparency to their homes. Be it one home, or a fifty-home group, CoolCare is the solution for you. By using CoolCare’s Workforce management includes; digital rota’s, staff messaging, mobile based holiday requests allows managers to free up valuable time to spend with staff and residents. CoolCare also helps reduce the reliance on agency and bring staffing costs under greater control, all by using state of the art biometric clocking devices to ensure payroll is 100% accurate every time.

CoolCare's Resident Management provides; collaborative enquiry management, reducing time from initial enquiry to admission, and improves average bed fees. All supported by a powerful billing engine that generates acccurate and 'smart' invoicing and billing, ensures income remains on track, reducing in home admin to a minimum.

CoolCare4’s care home management software features include occupancy management and resident invoicing, HR, training and supervision records, rotas and scheduling, staff communications, time and attendance, timesheets with multiplatform payroll integration, PCS & Nourish integration, earned wage access, maintenance tasks, business analysis, and much more

Beaufort Capital provides development finance from £10m to £100m to proven property developers of all asset classes. Our multiple award-winning senior debt, stretched senior, mezzanine and equity funding allows developers to maximise their returns. Our team has been developing and funding real estate in Britain for more than 50 years

ARCO stands for the Associated Retirement Community Operators and is the main trade body representing the Housing-with-Care sector in the UK. ARCO’s objective is to serve as the voice for the UK Integrated Retirement Community sector, its operators, its investors, and its residents. We seek to elevate and drive quality standards; help shape a fit for purpose legislative environment; and grow the industry for the mutual benefit of all stakeholders. ARCO’s aim is to see a sustainable, universally understood, and well-regulated Integrated Retirement Community sector in the UK. Our aim is a large scale, commercially viable and supportive housing offer that promotes independence, eliminates loneliness, and makes the last move in people’s lives their best.

Women in Retirement Living (WiRL) is a not-for-profit organisation committed to empowering women and other underrepresented groups across the retirement living sector. With the rapid growth of the UK retirement living sector, there is a critical need to address issues of diversity, gender inequality, and social mobility. WiRL exists to ensure that these challenges are not only recognised but actively tackled.

Through networking, knowledge sharing, and mentoring, WiRL provides a platform for individuals at all stages of their careers to connect, grow, and thrive. The network unites professionals from across real estate, care, legal, operations, finance, and design, offering opportunities to collaborate, share insights, and drive change.

WiRL hosts regular events, including panel discussions, roundtables, and networking events, designed to foster community, elevate diverse voices, and champion inclusive leadership. The organisation also works with industry stakeholders to challenge stereotypes and encourage innovation in how we design, deliver and operate later living communities.

We believe that growing and evolving the retirement living sector is fundamental to our society’s future, and that maximising the contributions of a wide diversity of people is essential to achieving that goal.