Client Spotlight: Vivo Body Studio
Tenant Spotlight: VIVO Body Studio – Advanced Aesthetics with a Personal Touch
We’re delighted to welcome one of our newest tenants at Clavering House: VIVO Body Studio, the UK’s next-generation aesthetics clinic. Whether you're looking to tone muscle, reduce fat, or refresh your appearance, VIVO offers innovative, non-invasive treatments delivered with exceptional care.
Putting Clients First
Ethical, Expert-Led Aesthetics
A Range of Non-Invasive Treatments
- Fat Freezing and Lemon Bottle fat-dissolving injections
- Ultrasound and shockwave for body contouring
- HIFU Facelifts, Plasma Eye Lifts, and Radiofrequency Skin Tightening
- Cellulite Reduction, and even HIFU Vaginal Tightening treatments
Client Spotlight: Apollo Blinds Newcastle
Client Spotlight: Apollo Blinds Newcastle
Apollo Blinds is Newcastle’s go-to for superior, made-to-measure window treatments. Owned by Derek and Oli, their team is dedicated to transforming your home with an extensive range of blinds, shutters, awnings and curtains; designed to add style and function to every room.
A Tradition of Quality and Expertise
Since 1972, Apollo Blinds has been at the forefront of not only creating stunning window coverings but also ensuring they are installed to perfection. Their expert installation teams, trained the "Apollo way", are continually honing their skills through regular professional development. This commitment means every product, from elegant Roman and Venetian blinds to versatile vertical, roller and wooden options, is fitted with precision, ensuring lasting performance.
Innovative Collections for Every Home
Apollo Blinds offers a wide variety of collections that cater to diverse needs:
- Popular Blinds: Choose from Roller, Roman, Venetian, Vertical and Wooden blinds.
- Specialist Options: Discover solutions for conservatories, Duette®, Special Shapes, Pleated blinds, or even bespoke designs featuring your own photo or artwork.
Visit the New Showroom
Experience the quality firsthand by visiting their new showroom in Whitley Bay at 225 Whitley Road, NE26 2SY. With welcoming opening hours (Tue-Fri: 10AM to 4PM, Sat: 10AM to 2PM), it is the perfect opportunity to explore their collections and see demonstrations on how their products work, complete with tips for care and smart home integration.
Connect with Apollo Blinds
Whether you are looking for a free, no-obligation home visit or want to chat about your next home transformation project, Apollo Blinds Newcastle is ready to help you every step of the way.
- Call: 0191 204 9073
- Email: newcastleandtyneside@apollo-blinds.co.uk
Apollo Blinds is not just about beautiful window coverings, it is about delivering an experience where style meets reliability. Discover how they can bring your vision to life, ensuring your new window treatments work flawlessly for years to come.
Is your business being talked about?
Here at Clavering House Business Centre in Newcastle we're not exclusively about providing great serviced offices and meeting rooms - we're also working hard to help our business customers to grow. So we've been talking to local suppliers of high impact business services and, even better, negotiating special offers and discounts to help our customers to take advantage of them.
We're pleased to now be able to introduce you to Gosforth-based PR and Marketing company HFPR, run by Gosforth-based Hilary Florek who has over 20 years of experience and a great track-record of helping organisations across lots of different sectors to get talked about.
Hilary explains "PR support can sometimes be thought of as a luxury, particularly for smaller businesses, so we want to make sure that, if you want it, you can get it. To quote Bill Gates, 'If I was down to my last dollar I would spend it on public relations'. We're so pleased to be able to offer Clavering House customers a special package costing only £250 to get them started with PR and marketing, to make sure their business is being talked about!"
HFPR can support you to develop a PR strategy, either for you to then deliver yourself, or HFPR would be happy to get involved in implementing it for you. They'll help you to come up with lots of ideas around what you want to achieve from PR, to identify your stories, and to work out how to get your business talked about on social media. For a one-off fee of only £250 you will get:
- Meeting to discuss PR objectives
- Basic PR strategy document
- Press release
- Social media strategy document and help managing your social media
- Plan and ideas on how we can help you on and ongoing basis
To take advantage of this great offer just get in touch with Hilary direct at
http://www.hilaryflorekpr.co.uk/#contact
To secure your special offer just make sure you mention that Clavering House Business Centre sent you!
Special offers for Newcastle Start-up Week
When we were approached to support the first ever Newcastle Start-up week we were of course privileged to be asked, and it was a massive thumbs up from us! At Clavering House Business Centre we support hundreds of businesses every year, and as small business owners ourselves we know how much it means to have the opportunity to step outside of the day job to be helped and inspired!
Hats off to Paul Lancaster for getting this off the ground, and for what looks like a great programme of support for the Newcastle small business community.
Take advantage of free Clavering House hospitality
Much of the Start-up week activity is taking place at our neighbour The Boiler Shop. Clavering House is literally a stone's throw away, so we're offering Start-up Week patrons the chance to take advantage of free hospitality throughout the week. From Monday 15th May to Friday 19th May if you present your Start-up week ticket you can call in and use our hot-desks and superfast broadband *for free* as many times as you like.
You can book in advance or just call in any time to reserve your desk!
40% discount off NE1 mailing address for start-up week participants
For business owners with a Start-up Week ticket we're also offering you a huge 40% discount on our virtual office mailing address service. If you sign up by 31st May you'll pay only £15 + vat per month until the end of November 2017. After that you still get a great deal at only £25 + vat a month!
Find out more about our virtual office services here.
This is a huge benefit if you want the convenience and profile of a city centre office (Clavering House is a great place to virtually locate your business!) without the cost of hiring an office while you're getting started. You can also use our address as your registered office, removing lots of headaches associated with using your home address for your start-up.
Get in touch if you'd like to find out more.
Full details of the packed Newcastle Start-up Week schedule can be found here https://newcastlestartupweek.com/schedule/
***SOLD*** Train spotters will love this central office to let!
Truly a room with a view! This serviced office to let in Newcastle City Centre is soon to be vacant.
When we describe the location of Clavering House Business Centre we explain that our Grade II listed building is located right behind the station, which it is, but we don't often reveal that the track heading for the station is actually in clear view - we've had the privilege of waving at Orient Express passengers more than once!
This bright and spacious open plan office is available for immediate let
- 600 sq ft office located on 2nd floor
- Ideal space for up to 10 people
- Superfast 100 mg broadband
- Air conditioning
- Easy access to kitchen and toilets
Parking
- Optional parking spaces for tenants in a secure gated car park (subject to availability)
- Access to pre-bookable visitors parking
- Excellent city centre parking in the immediate vicinity
Flexible Terms
- 12 months flexible licence agreement (can be extended)
- Only 2 months notice
Telecommunications
- Superfast 100 mg broadband at no extra cost
- Free WiFi for visitors
- Easy access to professional IT and comms support
Business services
- Meeting rooms for hire with tenant discounts
- Friendly and professional reception service
- Mail and parcel delivery handling
- Telephone call handling at no extra cost
- Promotion of your business to other tenants and customers
- Admin support such as document scanning
Tenants services
- Kitchen with microwave and fridge
- Cleaning services
- Utilities at no extra cost
- Pay as you go car valeting service
Promotional video for Clavering House
Clavering House Business Centre may wish to commission a Newcastle-based video production company to produce a promotional video to showcase what we have to offer.
Here's what we need (and what we don't need!)
We're not looking for a Hollywood blockbuster (with a budget to match!) - just a simple, honest , well produced video of no more than 3 minutes that matches our branding, and that clearly illustrates the following:
- Where we are located
- The features of our beautiful Grade II listed building
- Examples of meeting rooms for hire and service offices to rent
- Very short soundbite testimonials from 6 customers (max 10/15 seconds each) filmed within the customers' office or the meeting room they hire
- An interview with the MD, Helen Reed, to explain the features of our 4 core services - serviced offices, meeting rooms, virtual office services and hot-desks - partly to camera, but mainly as the narrative for the video (ie we want it to be real and accessible, avoiding elevator music).
If you're interested in pitching for this work can you please email by no later than 4 pm on Tuesday 7th February with your responses to the following questions, and we'll get back to you to let you know if we'd like to take it further.
(Please don't spend your valuable time attaching or including any additional information over and above what we've specifically asked for at this stage - if we want to know more we'll let you know - we'll make a short-list from the responses to the questions listed first - thanks)
To pitch please email your responses to the following 10 questions to helen@claveringhouse.co.uk
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Your Name / Company Name?
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Your Website?
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Contact Email address and phone number?
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Your Location?
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In one sentence what is your impression of Clavering House?
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Please list 2 or 3 links to examples of videos you've produced along the lines we've set out in our brief
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Based on the brief what will be the ballpark cost, and please state whether this includes VAT (we cannot shortlist any company that doesn't provide this information)?
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What is your usual lead-time for producing this type of video?
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In a couple of sentences maximum, what would be your usual process for producing the video?
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In one sentence, why should we choose you?
We'll look forward to hearing from you by 4 pm on 7th February
Thank you!
Helen Reed, Managing Director
When we say flexible business space we really mean it!
Here at Clavering House Business Centre we provide space for just every type of business you can imagine, and we've always prided ourselves on being flexible, adjusting space pretty much to suit our customers' often exacting requirements. Well if you're paying for business space, it stands to reason you need it to be as near to perfect as you can get it!
So it was a real pleasure recently to receive an enquiry for the type of business space that, on the surface, seemed like a pretty unlikely fit for our Grade II listed building on the fringe of Newcastle's Stephenson Quarter, providing us with the ideal opportunity to show exactly what we're made of! When we say flexible business space we really do mean it, and as a result, alongside our resident lawyers, architects, pharmaceutical company and events organisers, we're now home to two professional make-up artists who have set up their brand new start-up small business at Clavering House.
Karina Bellfield and her business partner Lisa Dunbar chose Clavering House Business Centre as the perfect place for their new make-up studio, Dollicious Studio, because we were able to provide exactly the type of space they needed in the ideal location, just a couple of minutes' walk from the railway station and metro, making us easy for their customers to reach.
We're so pleased to welcome Dollicious Studio, and our resident photographer Sarah Deane Photographic is also over the moon, as she sees our new addition to be perfectly complementary to her own portraiture business in her 'cave' studio in the Clavering House basement. We're now on the look out for a fashion business looking for premises to make the perfect set!!
Exciting announcement from our resident IT business
We welcomed hospitality IT experts Avenue9 as our newest residents in our offices at Clavering House Business Centre in Newcastle City Centre in January this year. Almost a year on, we are so pleased to congratulate them on the recent announcement that their rapid growth since start up will now accelerate even further following their acquisition by Hotel & Hospitality Group JLL.
Co-founders of Avenue9, Philippa Witheat and Kevin Edwards, have been making serious inroads into the leisure and hospitality sector with their growing team here at Clavering House, and this latest move really confirms that they are doing some impressive and innovative work that's really making a difference to the business performance of businesses in the sector. We're so proud to have such a dynamic company located here at Clavering House, and long may that continue!
You can read the full press release with details of the JLL acquisition here. http://www.jll.eu/emea/en-gb/
It's great to see a local Newcastle-upon-Tyne based company go from strength to strength and we can't wait to see what the New Year will bring. We wish them the team at Avenue9 the best of luck and look forward to seeing further growth for such lovely customers!
Who rings your bell if you work for yourself?
As the Founder of Colleagues on Tap I've worked for myself for over ten years, and I've found that one of the best things about self employment is that if you achieve success it's down to you. You don’t need to flag wave for the sales team, the customer services department, the marketing director or that person in operations that apparently made it all happen – because you wear all of those hats yourself, so success is down to you.
But the flipside has to be that when you work for yourself you're usually working by yourself too, so there's no one around to get excited for your successes - not just the huge ones that you might think about tweeting about, but just those day to day achievements that almost go unnoticed as you move on to the next challenge - every item ticked off the ‘to do’ list, each time you eat a frog (you know the phrase), the regular occasions you talk business with a new prospect, the emails and comments you receive to say thank you from a satisfied customer – these achievements all add up to making you and your business a success every day, so they need to be celebrated
So celebrate!
If you work for yourself, don't forget to give yourself a pat on the back, and do it regularly, and find someone (probably someone who also works for themselves) to celebrate the little successes with you too. When I set up in business I was bought a brass bell – the type you’d probably hear alongside a call for “shop”. Whenever something goes right in my business I ring that bell - it takes me back to my days in the recruitment industry when the bell would be rung whenever someone’s candidate was accepted for an interview, and you wouldn’t believe the chaos when there was a job offer! But that open expression of “I’ve done it” gives you such a buzz – it drives you through to the next challenge, and just importantly it just sets aside the moment that you’ve done something that makes a difference to your business – no matter how small it may seem.
If you're motivated by praise, find praise!
I know that endorsement and praise are real motivators for me. Some people are driven by money – I make money, but I’m driven by doing a great job that’s acknowledged. So I need those pats on the back – they give me energy and keep me focused. So a couple of years ago, when an Associate called me one day to tell me about something she’d achieved because she didn’t want to lose the moment, we agreed that we’d be the person each would call to have a ‘bell ring’ when we did something we were proud of. We still do it now, and ‘ring the bell’ has evolved into a metaphoric way of conveying that things are good.
If you keep your little successes to yourself you’ll get no acknowledgement, no praise or endorsement to drive you on. So why not talk about what you’ve achieved? We all have networks and peers around us – tell them what you’ve achieved so they can ring the bell for you. I’m not talking a press release every time you’ve received some great feedback, but if you have a network on social media, or amongst your business peers, actively support each other with endorsement and praise - for the small day to day achievements as well as the biggies.
Also it's important to remember that working for yourself doesn’t need to mean working by yourself all of the time. Through the Colleagues on Tap Coworker Community (you could call that a network, but in the loosest sense), there’s a huge amount of support and camaraderie, and we’re all in the same boat. Talk about your successes – don’t be concerned that you’ll be seen to be ‘bragging’ (someone said that to me the other day) – just put it out there and we’ll get behind you. And if you let me know, I’ll ring my bell for you too. Get in touch