Our Sectors

Campbell Tickell bring specialist and in-depth knowledge across a wide range of sectors to assist your organisation.

We have worked with more than 1,000 organisations throughout the UK, Ireland and beyond, with central and local government, housing associations, care providers, sports and leisure bodies, charities, and commercial organisations such as housebuilders and developers, contractors and legal firms.

Central Government

We have carried out advisory, regulatory and research assignments for central government agencies and regulatory bodies across the UK and the Republic of Ireland.

With governance and regulatory guidance in high demand, our work has included:

  • Reviewing the regulatory framework for Welsh housing associations
  • Reviewing the regulatory framework for Northern Irish housing associations
  • Viability assessments of English housing associations
  • Advising on managing insolvency for the Scottish Housing Regulator
  • Writing the Charity Commission’s good practice guidance for trustees
  • Developing the Performance, Financial and Governance Standards for the Irish housing regulator
  • Assisting Sport England on governance matters
  • Review of the housing management framework for the Government of Montserrat

Our work also covers investigations, senior recruitment, and funding advice. For example, we recruited the Private Rented Sector Taskforce for the Department for Communities & Local Government, and advised the Northern Ireland Department for Communities on sensitive regulatory matters.

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Charities & Not-For-Profits

No two charities and not-for-profit organisations are the same. Ranging from large national bodies to small, local initiatives, they work to create a better, fairer society in a myriad of ways. Yet there are similarities: shared values of social change; deep commitment to a good cause and shared challenges: a strained economy; a tumultuous political landscape and the need for transparency and openness with the public.

We have helped charities of all sizes improve their governance and strategy, through Board reviews and evaluations, governance reviews, development and facilitation, strategic awaydays, organisational reviews, options appraisals and mergers.

Through our charity consultancy services we can support organisations through a range of challenges. Whatever your size, we can work to provide solutions that fit your needs. We know that, to be most effective, governance arrangements must be shaped not only by law, regulation and the external operating context, but by the organisation’s own circumstances, ambition, priorities and preference.

Our expert charity sector experience is enhanced through our knowledge of good practice and in-depth understanding of a range of governance codes.

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Commercial Organisations

Businesses face a myriad of challenges, amplified over recent years by extremely volatile operating environments. For example, how to develop new business streams, recognise risks and opportunities, and identify how decisions impact customers. Successful businesses embrace change and implement innovative solutions for sustainable growth.

Our strength lies in helping organisations navigate change and plan their futures.  We have helped developers, contractors, housebuilders, solicitors, property investors, and other commercial businesses to understand their stakeholders and markets; identify growth opportunities; formulate new strategies; and ensure their governance and risk management is of the highest calibre.

Advising on areas from corporate strategy to corporate governance

Our multi-disciplinary team have provided a range of support, including establishing for-profit registered housing providers, advising on bidding strategies, conducting governance reviews, corporate strategies, business plan reviews, supporting joint ventures, sourcing senior interim managers, and conducting executive and non-executive recruitment.

This work has included advising institutional investors on market norms and expectations in the social housing sector; procuring delivery partners for for-profit registered providers of housing; regulatory advice and guidance. We have worked for around one-third of the for-profit registered providers.

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Glenn Allum

Senior Consultant

Health, Care & Support

Campbell Tickell has worked extensively with local authorities, integrated care bodies, public health, care and support providers, as well as charities and housing associations on a range of housing, care and support issues. 

Our team understand the challenges and opportunities of delivering integrated and person-centred services that meet the diverse needs of different groups and communities.

With the skills and expertise to manage complex and multi-agency partnerships, involving health, homelessness, criminal justice, and others, and develop effective strategies, we have a proven track record of delivering high-quality work.

Our recent work includes:

  • Developing Homelessness and rough sleeping strategies that address the root causes and solutions of homelessness, including research into Housing First strategies.
  • Conducting housing needs assessments for people with learning disabilities, autism, severe mental health difficulties, and other complex needs, to inform housing development and commissioning strategies.
  • Working with local authorities and providers on developing older peoples’ housing strategies and reviewing sheltered and other older person’s housing provision.
  • Development of single homelessness and rough sleeping strategies

Most of our work involves data analysis, stakeholder consultation, and gathering the views of people with lived experience of services – and co-production, as well as research into best practice to inform clients about innovations in their area of concern.

We are about helping our clients achieve their goals and improve the lives of the people they serve. 

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Housing Providers

Supporting housing providers across the UK and Ireland

Working with housing providers has been central to CT from day one; in our 24 years of operation, we have worked with many social landlords across the UK and the Republic of Ireland, with housing associations (both charitable and for-profit), local authorities, arm’s length management organisations (ALMOs) and council-owned housing delivery companies, housing co-ops and tenant management organisations.

These have included all the largest 50 housing associations in the UK, most of the largest approved housing bodies in the Republic of Ireland, and over nearly 100 councils and council-owned companies across the UK and Ireland.

Against a backdrop of chronic housing shortages and continued austerity, recent years have seen providers face new challenges including a worldwide pandemic, a cost-of-living crisis, rising concerns about the quality and safety of homes and the need to decarbonise homes to meet net zero targets. All of these raise the expectations for performance and governance.

Working with landlords to deliver change

These challenges have seen many providers rethink and refocus how they deliver core services, how they engage with residents and how they monitor and manage performance. We have worked with many to help innovate, drive change, and make a positive impact.

Proud to be one of the top consulting firms in housing

With a team of housing experts specialising in governance, change and transformation, risk and service delivery, and a network that reaches far beyond, we have earned a reputation as a trusted partner. In 2023, we were recognised as one of the top consulting firms in the housing sector, rated ‘Diamond’ by Consultancy UK.

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Local Authorities

Local authorities face continuing financial constraints, while demand grows, and demographic and economic changes create greater complexity of need. Faced with these systemic challenges, how can executive teams best understand and reshape their services, in terms of their baseline position – strengths, weaknesses, finances, culture and risks? How can they move from there to define sustainable operating models and frame the changes to deliver these? Moreover, how can the changes integrate into a whole system approach?

Campbell Tickell has worked with over 90 local authorities in the past three years, helping them to refocus their strategies and delivery, particularly in housing, social care, and health.

Our consultancy services with local authorities, ALMOs and council-owned companies includes:

  • Housing strategy and market assessments
  • Housing options & Temporary Accommodation
  • Homelessness, Specialist & Supported Housing
  • Consumer regulation
  • Transformation and customer journeys
  • Organisational design and culture
  • Strategic asset management
  • Financial viability and Housing Revenue Account
  • Recruitment (Executive, Permanent, Interim)

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James McHugh

Senior Consultant

Alistair Sharpe-Neal

Senior Consultant

Jon Slade

Director

Public Bodies

We have worked with a very wide range of regulators and arm’s length bodies (ALBs) – whether non-departmental public bodies or non-ministerial departments. Their duties may range across transport, utilities, energy or the arts and culture.

We have the credibility, authority and intellectual agility to engage with the most senior people, whether NEDs, Executive staff or sponsor departments, with a view to surfacing strengths and areas for continuous improvement arising from external Board evaluations and reviews.

We are well versed in the range of guidance that frames the governance expectations for these clients, whether Framework Agreements, Managing Public Money guidance or Cabinet guidance in respect of Board reviews.

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Sports & Leisure

Bringing a fresh approach to the sports and leisure sector, we make full use of our understanding of local government, not-for-profit organisations, and commercial providers.

Working with national governing bodies, regional sport providers, charities and leisure trusts, we help our clients improve their governance arrangements and efficacy, address approaches to diversity and inclusion, and modernise their approaches. As a leader in governance, we are well versed in the Code for Sports Governance.

We are also sports enthusiasts and look to support actors in the sector looking to create the right outcomes for supporters and sports practitioners. Campbell Tickell supports Fair Game in its efforts to produce a more sustainable model for football. We have made contributions to the Tracey Crouch fan-led review of football and have also drafted a Code for the governance of football clubs to help inspire change. We have participated in a range of podcasts and webinars, for example for the Women’s Sport Collective, and we believe sport has a role to play in the well-being of society.

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Campbell Tickell has specialist, in depth sector knowledge. We’d love to hear from you.

Our Sectors

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