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:
Blackbullion
Blackbullion is the expert in student money, combining award-winning financial education, money management tools and insights from over £2.6 billion of real student spending data, which has helped almost 500,000 students build financial confidence and shape a better future.
Trusted by 100+ universities, colleges and businesses, Blackbullion provides the infrastructure to recruit and retain students through scalable, sustainable financial support.
To date, more than £47 million has been distributed to students through the Blackbullion platform, which houses the UK’s largest hub of support funds, scholarships, bursaries, grants and other funding opportunities.
https://www.blackbullion.com/?utm_campaign=heloa&utm_source=Affiliate&utm_medium=Referral
CampusConnect
CampusConnect is a premium digital community platform supporting university partners in achieving 80%+ offer-to-enrolment conversion.
Our fully branded platform includes simple, embeddable events and live ambassador chat tools for your university website, alongside tailored communities, messaging and groups that consistently hit high levels of take-up and genuine, meaningful peer-to-peer engagement.
With over a decade of experience working with UK universities, CampusConnect combines purpose-built technology with dedicated community management support giving applicants a strong sense of belonging early, and throughout their journey to your university.
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.
Outreach Log
The Outreach Log makes it effortless to record, manage and report on your university’s outreach activities, all in one central, easy-to-use platform.
Designed to streamline collaboration and automate reporting, it gives you complete visibility across all university departments while unlocking valuable insights.
With customisable features and instant reporting, the Outreach Log helps you:
- Save time with simplified, consistent event data recording
- Strengthen information sharing across your university
- Highlight and enhance student recruitment and widening participation efforts
If your university could benefit from a unified view of all outreach activity and faster, hassle-free reporting, feel free to get in touch to book a no-obligation demonstration.
Prospects
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
Make every first impression count.
Prospectus Plus lets prospective students build a digital prospectus around their interests, while your team learns what matters to them.
Whether they’re exploring your website, attending an open day or meeting you at a recruitment event, give students a personalised prospectus they can save, share and return to. Help them discover relevant courses, explore student life and feel more confident about their next steps.
Meet us at HELOA to see how Prospectus Plus brings your content together, helps you understand student interests and reduces your reliance on print.
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.
Student CRM
Student CRM is purpose-built for UK education recruitment. Unlike general-purpose enterprise CRM platforms, it’s designed around university recruitment teams’ daily work, helping reduce manual tasks, close follow-up gaps and support better conversion.
Turn recruitment activity into connected student journeys.
- Build stronger school relationships. Connect school engagement and contacts with prospective students.
- Make events count. Manage bookings and attendance, then automate relevant follow-up.
- Capture data once. Collect student details through branded forms and at events, reducing repeated manual entry.
- Keep enquiries moving. Give your team a structured process and the context to respond. Connect every interaction back to the student.
- Make communications relevant. Target email and SMS using students’ interests and recruitment activity.
- Automate repetitive tasks. Trigger communications, update records and move students into appropriate journeys.
- Keep applicants engaged. Coordinate application data and nurture through to enrolment.
- Connect with your student record system. Including SITS, Banner, EBS and Unit4.
The functionality is already built. You focus on branding, content and processes rather than bespoke development. Get hands-on as soon as 24 hours after purchase.
With over 20 years of UK education experience, ongoing product development and UK-based support, Student CRM gives recruitment teams technology built around the job they actually need to do.
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.