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 2025 is sponsored by:
Blackbullion
Blackbullion is the award-winning ecosystem changing the lives of 275,000+ students. Trusted by 75+ universities, colleges, and businesses to manage funds, make instant payments, provide powerful insights and empower students with money skills and confidence.
Not only is our approach life-changing for the students using Blackbullion to learn about, find and manage their money, it saves institutions time and money and improves recruitment and retention.
The ecosystem includes financial education on 80+ topics, a money management app, the UK’s largest hub of support funds, scholarships and grants for students and the leading end-to-end funding solution for universities and colleges.
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.
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.
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
SMRS
We believe in the power of education to raise aspirations and make a positive difference, and we’re proud to help universities in the UK and around the world transform even more lives. We deliver culture, brand and communications projects for a diverse mix of universities and colleges, from the Russell Group to large modern institutions, FE Colleges and specialist providers. In a rapidly changing world, organisations that can connect with and inspire their audiences will perform better and broaden their impact and we can help with our media planning and buying, insight services, creative content, and social media strategy work.
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
CampusXR
CampusXR is a digital media and marketing agency dedicated to providing educational institutions with VR and AR products that will bring your campus and student experiences to life. As the leading VR company for universities and the only provider of AR services, we are centered at the intersection of XR technology, educational multimedia, and international marketing. Our team of dedicated staff includes expert engineers, designers, photographers and videographers, and marketing specialists, all committed to helping you create XR assets that will make your university shine.
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
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.