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Press Releases from CONNECT DERBY (9 total)

CONNECT DERBY PROVIDES TEMPORARY HOME FOR GLOBAL IT FIRM BAM BOOM CLOUD AT FRIAR …

Connect Derby, the city’s primary manged workspace provider, has stepped in to provide global IT company Bam Boom Cloud with short term accommodation in its new furnished office space at Friar Gate Studios while its new HQ is being refurbished. Earlier this year, Bam Boom Cloud, formerly Cooper Parry IT, announced it was relocating from its offices near East Midlands Airport to a 6,500 sq ft, Grade II listed property in…

Connect Derby Launches Furnished Offices at Friar Gate Studios

Connect Derby, the city’s primary managed workspace provider, is expanding its offering with the launch of new fully furnished Covid-secure office accommodation at its Friar Gate Studios headquarters. The building on Ford Street, which was launched in 2007, has furnished nine of its offices, which will be available to rent on a short-term basis of up to six-months. The move comes as a result of the changing working environment since the advent…

Cactus Images celebrates 10 years at Connect Derby

Cactus Images, one of the region’s best known commercial photographers, is celebrating its tenth anniversary at Connect Derby, the city’s leading managed workspace provider. The company was founded in 2008 by Angela Jenkins and Chris Howard when they were in their third year studying for a degree in commercial photography at Derby University and started life at the university’s Banks Mill creative studios. In 2010, they moved to Friar Gate Studios, home…

ARISTOTLE FINANCIAL PLANNING SETS UP HOME AT FRIAR GATE STUDIOS

Aristotle Financial Planning is the latest professional services business to take space at Friar Gate Studios, the flagship building of the Connect Derby managed workspace scheme. The company was founded earlier this year by James Wallis, an independent and Chartered Financial Planner who has a decade’s experience in delivering financial advice and planning for clients across the East Midlands. He specialises in working with small business owners and clients who are planning…

Derby video production company launches remote video service

Derby-based video production and animation company Future Proof Films has launched an innovative new remote filming service which enables it to deliver professional quality video despite the current lockdown. The company, which is based at Connect Derby’s Sadler Bridge Studios, has launched its ‘Pro Remote Video’ service for those businesses that still need professional video content to support their marketing effort. The idea is simple – the team at Future Proof…

Derby lacemaker raises £500 after a pre-lockdown charity swim

A Derby lacemaker, who completed a 5k charity swim just days before the lockdown started on 23 March, has raised ?500 for Cancer Research UK and Marie Curie. Louise West, who is based at Connect Derby's Friar Gate Studios, was one of more than 21,000 swimmers who pledged to swim between 400m and 5k in 600 swimming pools across the country between 27 and 29 March. After hearing that the event had…

Exciting New Pop-Up Restaurant Opens its Doors at the iHub

An exciting new Asian and British themed pop-up restaurant has opened its doors at the iHub innovation centre on Infinity Park in Derby. Tiffin Break is an exciting new concept launched by keen home cook Nayer Raj from Littleover. The word Tiffin means ‘lunch box’ in Punjabi and Nayer has developed an extensive menu which combines the best of ‘Eastern and Western’ cuisine to create healthy, nourishing meals. All dishes are created…

Occupancy Levels At Historic Marble Hall Managed Workspace Scheme Exceed 93%

The iconic Marble Hall managed workspace scheme on Nightingale Road in Derby remains one of the city’s most popular managed workspace schemes for SMEs and microbusiness, with occupancy levels now exceeding 93%. The grade-two listed former Rolls-Royce building was the subject of a £4m refurbishment in 2016 to transform it into a vibrant managed workspace facility, with a range of complementary facilities, including a day nursery and training café. Since its official…

Paskett PR Celebrates 10 Years at Friar Gate Studios

Gardening and horticultural public relations specialists Paskett PR is celebrating its tenth anniversary at Friar Gate Studios, the managed workspace scheme for the creative industries. The firm, which was founded in 1976 by Graham Paskett, relocated to Friar Gate Studios in 2008 from 50/51 Friar Gate – a space dubbed the ‘most haunted offices’ in England by one TV programme. Paskett PR became specialists in the gardening world due to Graham’s…

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