Allen Lane proudly connects the greatest talent with the UK’s public sector and not-for-profit organisations.

Our understanding of the unique challenges and demands on local authorities enables us to source experienced local government professionals that share your ethos and meet the technical requirements of the role.

From finance and operational to policy, IT and governance, our established network of skilled professionals spans all levels of expertise. This enables us to fill the talent gaps necessary, on a permanent, interim and executive search capacity.

Ambient People is an independent recruitment company founded to apply the significant experience of our leadership team to engaging finance, programme and change management professionals within the Local Government Sector. Our focus is finding career opportunities where individuals can thrive and grow both personally and professionally.

Provider of high quality Treasury Management and Capital Financing advice to UK Local Authorities.

Now in our 20th year, Arlingclose consistently add value to our client’s operations, with personalised strategies and timely support and advice.

We’d love to tell you more, so please visit us on stand 42.

Visionary Network, Ascendant Solutions, and Inbest partner with local councils to create tailored Council Tax Reduction Schemes (CTRS). Leveraging deep expertise in Revenues & Benefits, alongside advanced software and data analytics, we offer bespoke scheme designs, thorough impact evaluations, and improved CTRS communication strategies. Our central goal is to promote financial stability for councils while protecting vulnerable households. Through our collaborative approach, we ensure that CTRS meets local needs effectively, combining innovation and insight to support communities and enhance administrative efficiency. Beyond CTRS we use our vast access and experience to reduce fraud and error, reduce indebtedness, identify and support vulnerable residents.

Caatalyst are market leading recovery audit specialists. 

We have recovered many millions of pounds for our Public Sector clients, including LB Waltham Forest, Birmingham City Council, LB Harrow and Coventry City Council. Our unique audit ensures the very highest cash recoveries.

Our fees are on a success only % basis so no client budget is required.

CCLA is a leading sustainability fund manager, serving local authorities and the public sector, as well as charities, faith-based organisations and individuals, our purpose is to help our clients maximise their impact on society by harnessing the power of investment markets. CCLA is part owned by The Local Authorities’ Mutual Investment Trust (LAMIT), comprised of representatives from the associations of local government from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

CCLA Investment Management Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

As a global GovTech champion, our software supports critical services that serve citizens in communities around the world.

With 30+ years’ experience in providing UK public sector organisations with technology solutions, we empower teams to save money and improve lives in their community.

Through our commitment to turning ideas into action, over 5,000 organisations and 2.5 million professionals, use our software to deliver future-ready public services.

Civica Financials, our financials cloud solution offers a single financial view to ensure informed management decisions. Teams can track the financial impact of every decision through insightful data to optimise business efficiency and minimise risk.

FISCAL Technologies is the leading provider of risk intelligence solutions that empower progressive finance teams to protect organisational spend. Our award-winning solutions use forensics and AI to provide a unique view of risk. We continually safeguard working capital by preventing financial loss and eliminating supplier risk while maintaining regulatory compliance. Since 2003, FISCAL has processed over 1 billion transactions, valued at over £5 trillion, and is relied upon by leading private and public sector organisations.

HeyCentric is a modular Income Management solution which enables Public Sector organisations to process, allocate and evaluate their income.

We offer:

• Intuitive income allocation tools with a built-in job scheduler and self-service reporting.
• ETL: low/no-code file transformation – allowing seamless integration with Line of Business Systems.
• Payment processing: fully PCI compliant solutions for in-person, telephone, and web payments.
• Telephony: Mid-Call, End-Call and fully automated IVR.
• Pay By Link: secure payment links sent by email, SMS or WhatsApp. • Built-in virtual Bank Reconciliation
• Recurring Card Payments
• Refunds, Reversals & Chargebacks: all processed from within HeyCentric.

Financial leaders, are you still juggling spreadsheets and siloed data? Imagine streamlining processes, boosting transparency, and making data-driven decisions with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance. HSO, your trusted Microsoft Public Sector partner for over 30 years, brings you expertise and proven accelerators to fast track deployment allowing you to optimise budgets, make data-driven decisions, and serve residents with greater efficiency. And a familiar Microsoft user experience ensures rapid adoption. Visit the Public Sector team on stand 11 and discover how Microsoft and HSO can be your secret weapon to enhance fiscal predictability.

ICAEW represents over 208,000 members and students globally, with 99 of the top 100 global brands employing ICAEW Chartered Accountants.* Founded in 1880, ICAEW works with governments, regulators and business leaders worldwide. As a world-leading improvement regulator, we supervise and monitor around 11,500 firms, maintaining high standards of professional competency and conduct. We promote inclusivity, diversity and fairness, equipping professionals with skills and values to build resilient businesses and societies, while ensuring our planet’s resources are managed sustainably. We believe that chartered accountancy can be a force for positive change. By sharing our insight, expertise and understanding we can help to create sustainable economies and a better future for all. * includes parent companies. Source: ICAEW member data February 2024, Interbrand, Best Global Brands 2023

Ivy Rock Partners provide search and recruitment support to organisations with social purpose wanting only the very best service. Using our experience, it is our goal to proactively find ways to help you, with a consistent long term objective in mind. We are not a ‘volume’ agency, our clients and candidates are selected with equal care.

LG Futures works exclusively with the public sector to help deliver improved and more cost-effective services.  

Specialising in financial management, funding and accounting, we support clients through a blend of bespoke advice, training and instant access subscriber tools. Since being established in 2004, we have worked with over 91% of local authorities, in addition to major central government departments and public sector bodies.

In particular, our support focuses on: understanding current and future cost pressures; navigating the complexity of the funding system; dealing with the ongoing impact of economic uncertainty; and overcoming unprecedented demands on resources.

Liberata is one of the UK’s leading managed services providers and innovative solutions to the Government; the wider public sector and commercial organisations. For over 45 years we have been offering Customer Services, Finance & Accounting, Payroll and Revenues & Benefits support. Liberata can help you redefine your services; reinvent technology and reshape outcomes. we are trusted to do this on behalf of over 800 organisations.

Link Treasury Services: the best resourced and most experienced treasury advisor in the UK Public Sector.

Link Treasury Services is the market leading provider of independent treasury and capital finance (including asset finance) advisory services to UK public sector organisations.

Our team is drawn from both the public and private sectors, combining extensive skills and deep industry knowledge with a strong public service ethos.

Our specialist advisory teams offer an unrivalled breadth and depth of experience providing an independent and responsive service to over 350 organisations.

The quality of our service is supported by the largest and most experienced treasury, technical accounting and asset finance, team in the UK Public Sector.

KnowledgeBus enables IT buyers to quickly benchmark purchases against daily trade guide price and stock levels on over 150,000 products from more than 2,500 manufacturers. Our range of spend analysis tools also helps buyers identify, track and forecast market dynamics more efficiently, saving users up to 24% on IT procurement.

Oxygen Finance is the UK’s leading provider of Early Payment programmes to the public sector. Since 2004, our focus on payments control and the procurement process has created financial benefits and improved social value outcomes for the NHS, local and central government, and FTSE 100 companies. Our products include FreePay which lets organisations pay their small and micro suppliers early for free. We also provide public sector market insight, including supplier spend and carbon emissions data, and tender intelligence through BidStats, the UK’s top tender search platform.

CIPFA and Penna have come together to offer a unique recruitment and career service. This partnership between the leading people management business and the world’s only public sector accountancy body offers unrivalled access to the best finance professionals across the UK. Having the right people, with the right skills, to get the job done is key to overcoming the financial challenges that face the public sector. CIPFA-Penna consultants specialise in both interim and permanent appointments, providing a quality recruitment service which focuses on financial management and corporate services across the public sector. We have an extensive network of finance professionals with experience gained across a range of organisations, sectors and disciplines.

Resonance is a social impact property fund manager.

Launched in 2002 with the mission of connecting capital to social enterprise.

We are proud to be a B Corp and of our track record of impact investing.

We provide life changing homes and solutions for people and communities facing crisis.

Through our pioneering social impact residential property funds, we work with institutional investors and expert housing partners to provide safe, affordable homes with wrap around support. Since our first property fund launched in 2013, we have helped to provide homes for over 3,500 individuals and families in over 1,100 properties, in major UK cities.

Sellick Partnership is a market-leading recruitment provider, specialising in the public sector finance and accountancy industry. Our expert Consultants are equipped to match skilled professionals with the right organisation, guaranteeing the best outcome – for candidates and clients. For over 20 years, our dedicated Consultants have specialised in supporting recruitment needs up to the senior and executive level, on an interim, contract and permanent basis, working with clients throughout the UK. Our team has a proven track record of delivering real, added value, and has built an unrivalled reputation for excellence, supporting CIPFA and the wider public sector.

Socitm Advisory is a transformation partner, working with public service leaders to improve the services they deliver. It specialises in ERP Advisory & Delivery, Digital & Service Transformation and Technology & Infrastructure Modernisation, providing independent and expert strategic advice and delivering solutions.

With more than 100 customers across local government and the wider public sector, it has a proven track record of delivering change programmes that improve public services for the benefit of not only the organisations, but also the communities they serve.

Tullett Prebon is a world-leading intermediary in the wholesale financial markets with a proud heritage stretching back over 150 years.

We are leaders in the building society, corporate, institutional and UK local government markets with particular expertise in long-term public sector funding.

With our partnered Platform we have access to a deep pool of local authority focused forward long-term lenders, providing the easiest and most competitive route to market.

We also provide a bespoke investment service tailored to our client’s needs, enabling access to highly competitive money-market and ESG rates and offering diversity when placing fixed term deposits.

Unit4 has a 40 year track record of successfully helping public sector organizations to achieve their digital transformation goals. Unit4 ERP (formally known as Agresso) is the market leading digital operating platform for over 400 Public Sector organisations.

Today Unit4 ERP brings together the capabilities of Finance, Procurement, Contract, Spend Management, Project Management and HCM, offering an agile, modular, intuitive portfolio of solutions built to deliver your digital transformation agenda, enabling efficiency, collaboration, productivity, and innovation.

Our customers state up to 50% reduction in procurement cost, 80% reduction in manual administrative tasks and £100’000’s saving in IT costs.

“Improved visibility, workflow, flexibility, time and costs savings mean that we are ideally placed to meet the challenges we face today and in the future.” – Mark Pearson, Business and Corporate Applications manager at Hoople.