There are various opportunities to sponsor HELOA events and activities, and promote your organisation to our extensive membership. Our sponsors are organisations who work with our members to support them in their roles within their HE institutions and support our mission of helping students in their HE journey. Our current offer for Sponsors can be found here.
HELOA National Conference 2026 is sponsored by:
Datafiltr
We’ve earned our reputation for making a real difference and enhancing the work of School Liaison teams across many UK Universities. Now in our tenth year of operation, we continue to develop our platform and provide an unrivalled service around identifying schools and colleges that match your profile.
Our software is unique and purpose built for teams that work with UK secondary schools and colleges. allowing you to manipulate over 1,000 school data points to create very specific school target lists. You can also record all your interactions and leave behind those awkward spreadsheets.
Adopting a more data led approach will undoubtably pay higher dividends. By evaluating all the field work you have delivered across the academic year, you will easily be able to identify where you have won or lost market share against your nearest competitors.
We provide powerful insights which will help mould the shape of your schools liaison strategy for greater success. But don’t just take our word for it. Please go to www.datafiltr.com/customer-stories to see how our customers benefit from using our service. We would be delighted to show you a demonstration.
GECKO
Gecko, a Student Engagement platform supercharged with ChatGPT.
Gecko’s platform integrates with your institution’s CRM and SIS to level-up how you engage students.
Choose from our chatbot, live chat, texting, online events and call center modules, and boost your team’s capabilities without ditching your legacy tech. And with the latest AI from ChatGPT and IBM leveraged throughout the Gecko platform, we’ll make your team of two feel like a team of twenty.
Schools around the globe trust Gecko to handle millions of students interactions every year, and we maintain robust integrations with major HigherEd vendors such as Slate, Ellucian, Microsoft, Salesforce and TargetX.
Try our new online demo at ai.geckoengage.com and transform your school’s website into a working chatbot in less than 60 seconds. And for more info on all our modules, check out geckoengage.com
Logistica
Logistica is a specialist in exhibition and event freight and logistics, with a strong focus on the higher education sector.
Since 2002, we’ve proudly supported student recruitment, outreach, marketing, and admissions teams across universities and institutions, not only throughout the UK but globally. Our services are designed to ensure a seamless experience for education providers as they connect with prospective students at exhibitions and events worldwide.
With a state-of-the-art warehousing facilities strategically located in Northampton and Milton Keynes, we offer the complete logistics solution. This includes everything from prospectus mailing services to full freight and logistics support, delivering directly to your stand within venues, hotels, and exhibition centres.
Our continued investment in warehousing infrastructure, fleet, equipment, and most importantly, our expert staff, allows us to maintain the highest standards of service. In addition to logistics, we also provide stand building, audio-visual (AV), and furniture hire services. Allowing Logistica to offer a complete event solution under one roof.
These services ensure that university and institution staff can focus on what matters most: helping prospective students make informed decisions about the next step in their education journey.
Pathways
Pathways demonstrates career progression from your courses to highlight their value to prospective students. Driven by your university’s own graduate data, Pathways embeds seamlessly into each of your website course pages to automatically show the range of careers your graduates do, with details on salary and employment.
https://www.career-pathways.co.uk
At Prospects we use our data insights and intelligence to drive successful student recruitment campaigns for universities across the globe. We know what students and graduates do, where they go and what their motivations are. We use this knowledge to guide and inspire career choices that enable students and graduates to make the best use of their skills, delivering high- quality applications to your courses.
Prospectus Plus
Prospectus Plus is a digital alternative to traditional printed prospectuses in the higher education sector. Our innovative platform empowers marketing, content and admissions professionals with personalisation, analytics, and sustainability at its core.
Prospectus Plus enables institutions to create tailored experiences for prospective students, showcasing their unique offerings whilst boosting engagement. Our advanced analytics help you understand user behaviour, driving data-driven decisions and optimised marketing strategies.
Embrace sustainability and showcase your institution’s commitment to the environment with Prospectus Plus, an eco-friendly solution that eliminates the need for printed materials. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn how Prospectus Plus can revolutionise your higher education marketing efforts at ContentEd.
Rad brothers
We are a family run business which specialise in Educational Logistics and other associated fields. Our blend of experience and enthusiasm to progress as a business ensures we offer a high level of customer service to each individual where we personalise the solution to meet and recognise the needs of each client.
We pride ourselves on accuracy and the ability to adapt to any situation or request. We are continually evolving as a business to meet the needs of all our customer.
As with all our areas of work, we have the most up to date training, insurance and risk assessments all in place.
UK University Search
UK University Search provides universities, higher education colleges and apprenticeship providers with the opportunity to meet thousands of students across the UK through a multitude of large events. On our www.ukuniversitysearch.com site, students are able to find out more about the options available to them after they complete their A-Levels, read through some interesting blog articles, and plan ahead with our open days calendar.
Unibuddy
Unibuddy matches prospective applicants with student ambassadors, giving them real-time access to real people with relevant interests. All through online messaging tech that’s simple to embed in your website.
Unibuddy is the leading peer-to-peer platform for higher ed recruitment, admissions and enrollment teams. Our suite of products enables prospective students to easily connect with peers, faculty, staff, and alumni to better inform their decision-making journey. Currently, Unibuddy partners with 600+ institutions worldwide to boost enrollment, and has supported more than one million students in making crucial decisions about their future.
To learn more, visit unibuddy.com
Unifrog
Unifrog is the one-stop-shop for students to research and decide on the career and university pathways they want to pursue. Our HE Partnerships support universities with all areas of student recruitment including high-quality lead generation, events promotion, and unique market insights. We help our university partners engage with the hundreds of thousands of students who use Unifrog every day to make key decisions about their futures. Our approach keeps students’ interests at the heart of everything we do and has a clear focus on best-fit.
Student CRM
Transform how you manage student relationships with our intuitive, cost-effective CRM designed specifically for educational providers.
Whether you’re a small, medium, or specialist institution, our SaaS solution creates a single source of truth, streamlines communication, enhances engagement, simplifies data management and centralises all your marketing and recruitment needs—without the complexity (price and consultant need) of an enterprise system!
With quick implementation (<28 Days) and ongoing product updates, our CRM helps you hit the ground running with simple and easy-to-use, HE-specific technology loved by our users and HE.
Visit our stand to see how we can support your institution’s goals with a tool built specifically for your needs.