diff --git a/core/frontend/helpers/index.js b/core/frontend/helpers/index.js
index f6b4185d7c..a949aa6761 100644
--- a/core/frontend/helpers/index.js
+++ b/core/frontend/helpers/index.js
@@ -1,10 +1,4 @@
-const register = require('./register');
-
 const coreHelpers = {};
-const registerThemeHelper = register.registerThemeHelper;
-const registerAsyncThemeHelper = register.registerAsyncThemeHelper;
-
-let registerAllCoreHelpers;
 
 coreHelpers.asset = require('./asset');
 coreHelpers.author = require('./author');
@@ -45,49 +39,4 @@ coreHelpers.title = require('./title');
 coreHelpers.twitter_url = require('./twitter_url');
 coreHelpers.url = require('./url');
 
-registerAllCoreHelpers = function registerAllCoreHelpers() {
-    // Register theme helpers
-    registerThemeHelper('asset', coreHelpers.asset);
-    registerThemeHelper('author', coreHelpers.author);
-    registerThemeHelper('authors', coreHelpers.authors);
-    registerThemeHelper('body_class', coreHelpers.body_class);
-    registerThemeHelper('cancel_link', coreHelpers.cancel_link);
-    registerThemeHelper('concat', coreHelpers.concat);
-    registerThemeHelper('content', coreHelpers.content);
-    registerThemeHelper('date', coreHelpers.date);
-    registerThemeHelper('encode', coreHelpers.encode);
-    registerThemeHelper('excerpt', coreHelpers.excerpt);
-    registerThemeHelper('foreach', coreHelpers.foreach);
-    registerThemeHelper('ghost_foot', coreHelpers.ghost_foot);
-    registerThemeHelper('has', coreHelpers.has);
-    registerThemeHelper('is', coreHelpers.is);
-    registerThemeHelper('img_url', coreHelpers.img_url);
-    registerThemeHelper('lang', coreHelpers.lang);
-    registerThemeHelper('link', coreHelpers.link);
-    registerThemeHelper('link_class', coreHelpers.link_class);
-    registerThemeHelper('meta_description', coreHelpers.meta_description);
-    registerThemeHelper('meta_title', coreHelpers.meta_title);
-    registerThemeHelper('navigation', coreHelpers.navigation);
-    registerThemeHelper('page_url', coreHelpers.page_url);
-    registerThemeHelper('pagination', coreHelpers.pagination);
-    registerThemeHelper('plural', coreHelpers.plural);
-    registerThemeHelper('post_class', coreHelpers.post_class);
-    registerThemeHelper('price', coreHelpers.price);
-    registerThemeHelper('raw', coreHelpers.raw);
-    registerThemeHelper('reading_time', coreHelpers.reading_time);
-    registerThemeHelper('t', coreHelpers.t);
-    registerThemeHelper('tags', coreHelpers.tags);
-    registerThemeHelper('title', coreHelpers.title);
-    registerThemeHelper('twitter_url', coreHelpers.twitter_url);
-    registerThemeHelper('facebook_url', coreHelpers.facebook_url);
-    registerThemeHelper('url', coreHelpers.url);
-
-    // Async theme helpers
-    registerAsyncThemeHelper('ghost_head', coreHelpers.ghost_head);
-    registerAsyncThemeHelper('next_post', coreHelpers.next_post);
-    registerAsyncThemeHelper('prev_post', coreHelpers.prev_post);
-    registerAsyncThemeHelper('get', coreHelpers.get);
-};
-
 module.exports = coreHelpers;
-module.exports.loadCoreHelpers = registerAllCoreHelpers;
diff --git a/core/frontend/helpers/link.js b/core/frontend/helpers/link.js
index 54a2fcd684..b1da160f7c 100644
--- a/core/frontend/helpers/link.js
+++ b/core/frontend/helpers/link.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // # link helper
 const _ = require('lodash');
-const {config, SafeString, errors, i18n} = require('../services/proxy');
-const {buildLinkClasses} = require('./utils');
+const {config, SafeString, errors, i18n, localUtils} = require('../services/proxy');
+const {buildLinkClasses} = localUtils;
 
 const managedAttributes = ['href', 'class', 'activeClass', 'parentActiveClass'];
 
diff --git a/core/frontend/helpers/link_class.js b/core/frontend/helpers/link_class.js
index 2ba6d2aedf..a9f30846d3 100644
--- a/core/frontend/helpers/link_class.js
+++ b/core/frontend/helpers/link_class.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // # link_class helper
 const _ = require('lodash');
-const {config, SafeString, errors, i18n} = require('../services/proxy');
-const {buildLinkClasses} = require('./utils');
+const {config, SafeString, errors, i18n, localUtils} = require('../services/proxy');
+const {buildLinkClasses} = localUtils;
 
 module.exports = function link_class(options) { // eslint-disable-line camelcase
     options = options || {};
diff --git a/core/frontend/services/apps/proxy.js b/core/frontend/services/apps/proxy.js
index 52a2e0cdc0..ca4d6a2e12 100644
--- a/core/frontend/services/apps/proxy.js
+++ b/core/frontend/services/apps/proxy.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-const helpers = require('../../helpers/register');
+const helpers = require('../../services/themes/handlebars/register');
 const routingService = require('../../services/routing');
 
 module.exports.getInstance = function getInstance() {
diff --git a/core/frontend/services/proxy.js b/core/frontend/services/proxy.js
index f6cff22527..d4d46ea29c 100644
--- a/core/frontend/services/proxy.js
+++ b/core/frontend/services/proxy.js
@@ -57,12 +57,12 @@ module.exports = {
     },
 
     // The local template thing, should this be merged with the channels one?
-    templates: require('../helpers/template'),
+    templates: require('./themes/handlebars/template'),
 
     // Various utils, needs cleaning up / simplifying
     socialUrls: require('@tryghost/social-urls'),
     blogIcon: require('../../server/lib/image/blog-icon'),
     urlService: require('./url'),
     urlUtils: require('../../server/lib/url-utils'),
-    localUtils: require('../helpers/utils')
+    localUtils: require('./themes/handlebars/utils')
 };
diff --git a/core/frontend/services/themes/handlebars/helpers.js b/core/frontend/services/themes/handlebars/helpers.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f738506a5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/frontend/services/themes/handlebars/helpers.js
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+const register = require('./register');
+const coreHelpers = require('../../../helpers');
+const registerThemeHelper = register.registerThemeHelper;
+const registerAsyncThemeHelper = register.registerAsyncThemeHelper;
+
+let registerAllCoreHelpers;
+
+registerAllCoreHelpers = function registerAllCoreHelpers() {
+    // Register theme helpers
+    registerThemeHelper('asset', coreHelpers.asset);
+    registerThemeHelper('author', coreHelpers.author);
+    registerThemeHelper('authors', coreHelpers.authors);
+    registerThemeHelper('body_class', coreHelpers.body_class);
+    registerThemeHelper('cancel_link', coreHelpers.cancel_link);
+    registerThemeHelper('concat', coreHelpers.concat);
+    registerThemeHelper('content', coreHelpers.content);
+    registerThemeHelper('date', coreHelpers.date);
+    registerThemeHelper('encode', coreHelpers.encode);
+    registerThemeHelper('excerpt', coreHelpers.excerpt);
+    registerThemeHelper('foreach', coreHelpers.foreach);
+    registerThemeHelper('ghost_foot', coreHelpers.ghost_foot);
+    registerThemeHelper('has', coreHelpers.has);
+    registerThemeHelper('is', coreHelpers.is);
+    registerThemeHelper('img_url', coreHelpers.img_url);
+    registerThemeHelper('lang', coreHelpers.lang);
+    registerThemeHelper('link', coreHelpers.link);
+    registerThemeHelper('link_class', coreHelpers.link_class);
+    registerThemeHelper('meta_description', coreHelpers.meta_description);
+    registerThemeHelper('meta_title', coreHelpers.meta_title);
+    registerThemeHelper('navigation', coreHelpers.navigation);
+    registerThemeHelper('page_url', coreHelpers.page_url);
+    registerThemeHelper('pagination', coreHelpers.pagination);
+    registerThemeHelper('plural', coreHelpers.plural);
+    registerThemeHelper('post_class', coreHelpers.post_class);
+    registerThemeHelper('price', coreHelpers.price);
+    registerThemeHelper('raw', coreHelpers.raw);
+    registerThemeHelper('reading_time', coreHelpers.reading_time);
+    registerThemeHelper('t', coreHelpers.t);
+    registerThemeHelper('tags', coreHelpers.tags);
+    registerThemeHelper('title', coreHelpers.title);
+    registerThemeHelper('twitter_url', coreHelpers.twitter_url);
+    registerThemeHelper('facebook_url', coreHelpers.facebook_url);
+    registerThemeHelper('url', coreHelpers.url);
+
+    // Async theme helpers
+    registerAsyncThemeHelper('ghost_head', coreHelpers.ghost_head);
+    registerAsyncThemeHelper('next_post', coreHelpers.prev_post);
+    registerAsyncThemeHelper('prev_post', coreHelpers.prev_post);
+    registerAsyncThemeHelper('get', coreHelpers.get);
+};
+
+module.exports = coreHelpers;
+module.exports.loadCoreHelpers = registerAllCoreHelpers;
diff --git a/core/frontend/helpers/register.js b/core/frontend/services/themes/handlebars/register.js
similarity index 90%
rename from core/frontend/helpers/register.js
rename to core/frontend/services/themes/handlebars/register.js
index b401caf835..67e67fc4a7 100644
--- a/core/frontend/helpers/register.js
+++ b/core/frontend/services/themes/handlebars/register.js
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 const Promise = require('bluebird');
-const {config, hbs, errors, logging} = require('../services/proxy');
+const hbs = require('../engine');
+const config = require('../../../../server/config');
+const {errors, logging} = require('../../../../server/lib/common');
 
 // Register an async handlebars helper for a given handlebars instance
 function asyncHelperWrapper(hbs, name, fn) {
diff --git a/core/frontend/helpers/template.js b/core/frontend/services/themes/handlebars/template.js
similarity index 91%
rename from core/frontend/helpers/template.js
rename to core/frontend/services/themes/handlebars/template.js
index 0c9d5476ac..9dd922f882 100644
--- a/core/frontend/helpers/template.js
+++ b/core/frontend/services/themes/handlebars/template.js
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 const templates = {};
 const _ = require('lodash');
 const errors = require('@tryghost/errors');
-const hbs = require('../services/themes/engine');
-const i18n = require('../../server/lib/common/i18n');
+const hbs = require('../engine');
+const {i18n} = require('../../../../server/lib/common');
 
 // Execute a template helper
 // All template helpers are register as partial view.
diff --git a/core/frontend/helpers/utils.js b/core/frontend/services/themes/handlebars/utils.js
similarity index 100%
rename from core/frontend/helpers/utils.js
rename to core/frontend/services/themes/handlebars/utils.js
diff --git a/core/frontend/services/themes/index.js b/core/frontend/services/themes/index.js
index 3bea4bde91..c21084a3fa 100644
--- a/core/frontend/services/themes/index.js
+++ b/core/frontend/services/themes/index.js
@@ -105,5 +105,6 @@ module.exports = {
             });
     },
     storage: require('./storage'),
-    middleware: require('./middleware')
+    middleware: require('./middleware'),
+    loadCoreHelpers: require('./handlebars/helpers').loadCoreHelpers
 };
diff --git a/core/server/web/site/app.js b/core/server/web/site/app.js
index ca43a8e668..581038335d 100644
--- a/core/server/web/site/app.js
+++ b/core/server/web/site/app.js
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ module.exports = function setupSiteApp(options = {}) {
     // We do this here, at the top level, because helpers require so much stuff.
     // Moving this to being inside themes, where it probably should be requires the proxy to be refactored
     // Else we end up with circular dependencies
-    require('../../../frontend/helpers').loadCoreHelpers();
+    themeService.loadCoreHelpers();
     debug('Helpers done');
 
     // Members middleware
diff --git a/test/unit/services/apps/proxy_spec.js b/test/unit/services/apps/proxy_spec.js
index cea8e495ee..ff95c3aaac 100644
--- a/test/unit/services/apps/proxy_spec.js
+++ b/test/unit/services/apps/proxy_spec.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 const should = require('should'),
     sinon = require('sinon'),
-    helpers = require('../../../../core/frontend/helpers/register'),
+    helpers = require('../../../../core/frontend/services/themes/handlebars/register'),
     AppProxy = require('../../../../core/frontend/services/apps/proxy'),
     routing = require('../../../../core/frontend/services/routing');
 
diff --git a/test/unit/helpers/index_spec.js b/test/unit/services/themes/handlebars/helpers_spec.js
similarity index 86%
rename from test/unit/helpers/index_spec.js
rename to test/unit/services/themes/handlebars/helpers_spec.js
index 40e2f2c18c..015b18f810 100644
--- a/test/unit/helpers/index_spec.js
+++ b/test/unit/services/themes/handlebars/helpers_spec.js
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-var should = require('should'),
-    _ = require('lodash'),
-    hbs = require('../../../core/frontend/services/themes/engine'),
+const should = require('should');
+const _ = require('lodash');
+const hbs = require('../../../../../core/frontend/services/themes/engine');
 
-    // Stuff we are testing
-    helpers = require('../../../core/frontend/helpers');
+// Stuff we are testing
+const helpers = require('../../../../../core/frontend/helpers');
 
 describe('Helpers', function () {
     var hbsHelpers = ['each', 'if', 'unless', 'with', 'helperMissing', 'blockHelperMissing', 'log', 'lookup', 'block', 'contentFor'],
diff --git a/test/unit/helpers/template_spec.js b/test/unit/services/themes/handlebars/template_spec.js
similarity index 63%
rename from test/unit/helpers/template_spec.js
rename to test/unit/services/themes/handlebars/template_spec.js
index dbd1fff477..ece2189e62 100644
--- a/test/unit/helpers/template_spec.js
+++ b/test/unit/services/themes/handlebars/template_spec.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-var should = require('should'),
-    hbs = require('../../../core/frontend/services/themes/engine'),
-    template = require('../../../core/frontend/helpers/template');
+const should = require('should');
+const hbs = require('../../../../../core/frontend/services/themes/engine');
+const template = require('../../../../../core/frontend/services/themes/handlebars/template');
 
 describe('Helpers Template', function () {
     it('can execute a template', function () {