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Posted by Robyn Russell at 07:47 Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Rent Serviced Offices on The Headrow - Leeds Offices

The Headrow
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS1

This Leeds business centre offers fully furnished offices for 1 - 5 people and Meeting rooms available, plus air conditioning. Full reception and secretarial services, personalised telephone answering & voicemail. ISDN telecomms, Internet and e-mail & DDI unique telephone numbers to each office. Commissionaire, restaurants and shops nearby. Secure car parking facilities available within the building.

Workstation Cost:	Call for instant Serviced Offices pricing
Virtual Office Cost:	Offers Virtual Offices
Minimum Licence Term:	Flexible terms
Max Office Size:	Call 0113 222 4696 to view Leeds offices
Min Office Size:	1 person
Nearest Train:	Leeds City
Nearest Motorway:	M1/M62; A1

Features include:

24 hour access	Furnished offices
Access Control	High speed Internet
Admin support	ISDN
Air Conditioning	IT Services
Alarm security	Lift/elevators
All inclusive licence fee	Meeting rooms
AV Equipment	Modern building
Break out areas	Parking on-site / nearby
Cafe/Cybercafe	Personal signage
CAT 5/6 cabling	Photocopying
Catering facilities	Postal services
CCTV	Secretarial services
Centre call answering	Staffed reception
Cleaning Services	Telephone answering
Conference Calls	Telephone system
Courier	Virtual offices
Fax: Centrally Located	Voicemail
Flexible terms

The Mint

Posted by Robyn Russell at 04:15

The Mint

Situated on Sweet Street in the southern corner of the urban village, The Mint offers Grade A office space over seven floors.

The building also boasts a full height atrium and entrance hall leading to public amenity space.

This 115,000 sq ft development incorporates a large allocation of parking including secure cycle parks at basement level. This eco-conscious development lives up to its BREEAM excellent rating, using solar panels to provide energy for a domestic hot water and heating system.

Office workers also benefit from an excellent location at the end of the M621 motorway and just five minutes walk from the city centre and railway station with regular trains direct to London, Manchester and Glasgow.

The ground floor of the development offers opportunities for restaurants, bars and cafes serving the area’s growing business population, centred around a landscaped public square.

Images (top & middle): Courtesy of Deltalord
Image (bottom) by: Guzelian

Location - Marshall Mill

Posted by Robyn Russell at 04:15

Marshall’s Mill

Comprising of the self-contained Marshall’s Court and the main Marshall’s Mill building, this development offers some of the largest floor plates in the urban village on flexible terms allowing you to up or downsize, with minimum effort.

The impressive Grade II Listed Mill building was refurbished extensively in 2001 and can offer commercial office space from 3,960 sq.ft up to 9,085 sq.ft. From the contemporary reception area to open and airy suites, the original character of the mill buildings come through ready for your company to create its own individual space. This historic space is now home to a mix of creative, digital and design agencies and public sector services.

The neighbouring Marshall’s Court building was once a warehouse for the flax and textile industry that grew up in Holbeck. Offering three floors of self contained office space, this building can be let as a whole or as smaller units starting from just 1,193 sq. ft on flexible terms.

The Marshall’s Mill complex is owned and managed by Igloo Regeneration who plan to retain and further renovate Marshall’s Mill and Marshall’s Court. Future plans include a major new regeneration scheme utilising land around Marshalls Mill to create a new neighbourhood with a mix of residential, business space, offices, workshops, cafes, galleries and small local retail. This will turn currently unused land into a creative, environmentally sustainable new addition to the already established communities in Marshalls Mill and Round Foundry.

Igloo Regeneration are strongly committed to supporting the arts and cultural industries in the area. In 2004 local artist Antonia Stowe was commissioned to develop a permanent sculpture reflecting the areas history and heritage. The Holbeck sheep now stands guard over the mill, which plays host to networking events and has provided a series of artists residencies over recent months.

Location - Round Foundry

Posted by Robyn Russell at 04:08

ROUND FOUNDRY

"The Round Foundry Media Centre provides high quality, contemporary serviced office space specifically for creative, digital and media businesses on very flexible terms. Located in Leeds city centre within one of the most dynamic business and residential developments in the UK, it is well served by a range of independent shops, cafes, restaurants and bars and is just 8 minutes walk away from the central train station."

Location: Situated south of Leeds city center. Easily accessible from main ring road and inner city travel. Perfect for travel from all over the country as well as reaching places within Leeds easily.

For us:
Work Pods. The Round Foundry provides work pods which you can rent out for meetings with clients, which would be great for us if we didn't want to rent a huge office space for 4 of us.

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Everywhere you go people are working in cafes, coffee houses or on the move. Some people don’t need an office but they do need a place to base themselves from, whether it’s to check emails, make an important business call, finish writing that proposal or to hold a vital client meeting. Our stylish work pods offer the ideal flexible work space solution.

With integrated lighting, adjustable work area, integrated filing, high speed internet and telephony, these self contained units open up when you are using them and securely lock shut when you are not, proving an environment that is both social and conducive to work. They are available to rent on an all inclusive monthly basis and are ideal for one person start-up businesses, mobile workers
or contractors. And of course, we’ll also make sure that you are invited to all of our networking and social events.

Monthly rental terms
High profile reception and extensive communal space
Inclusive high speed Internet and telephony including call answering
Toilets, shower and kitchen facilities
Free use of meeting rooms
Free visitor parking and dedicated parking spaces availability
Access to a range of high quality bureau services
Access 24 hours a day 7 days a week
High level of security with CCTV and 24/7 on site security
Heating, electricity, water and business rates, waste collection and recycling
Building insurance, maintenance and management"

£30 per hour or £150 per day Seats up to 8 people in a board room style and is perfect for team meetings, presentations or as a break out space for the larger rooms.

£30 per hour or £150 per day. Seats up to 8 people and with a full wall of external glazing it is ideal for team and project meetings.

The Round Foundry Media Centre has a range of unique and feature office spaces suitable for between 1 and 24 people. All of our offices are let on flexible terms so that you can give just one month’s notice at any time.

With a wide range of office sizes to allow you to upsize and downsize depending on the individual needs of your business our environment is designed specifically to nurture small, medium and fast growing companies with a supportive dedicated team, regular networking events and a mixture of like-minded businesses.

Serviced office space is ideal for start-up companies, growing small or medium size businesses, as a regional office or a short term project space.

One month minimum commitment
High profile reception and extensive communal space
Air conditioning, lighting, alarm system, carpeting and CAT 5e structured cabling
Toilets, shower and kitchen facilities
Free use of meeting rooms
Free visitor parking and dedicated parking space availability
Access to bureau, internet and telephone services with call answering
Access 24 hours a day 7 days a week
High level of security with CCTV, alarm monitoring and 24/7 on site security
Heating, electricity and water rates, waste collection and recycling
Building insurance, maintenance and management
Bookable car rental by the hour

For a range of larger office spaces available within the Round Foundry estate see -www.weloveholbeck.com

VMOS - Vision, Mission Statement, Objectives and Strategy

Posted by Robyn Russell at 03:59

Here is the basic VMOS strategy for our company:

Vision - The vision for the company is to create a Hi-End print company that covers the design for print and everything that entails. We want to become the company that people turn to when they want reliable and sophisticated design work, with a variety of expertise in all areas.

Mission Statement - Our mission is to become the top design for print agency, with hands on interaction with clients. We will take projects from the start and see them through to the finish, making sure that there is a high level of quality with the work we do and the interaction with our clients.

Objectives - Our objectives are to becomes the top design for print agency within 5 years of the company being opened. We will have relations with print agencies in Leeds such as Duffields and TEAM.

Strategy - Our strategy is to compete on the small studio market, competeing with similar companies offering a larger range of services and proving we will have a lot of hands on interaction with clients, building up trust and more relations. We will also be focusing on the 'Annual Reports' market, this is a wide market and fairly lucrative, providing companies with sophisticatedly designed report and accounts.

So far..

Posted by Robyn Russell at 03:27 Labels: OUPD201 Monday, 4 April 2011

Sooo...
I have emailed a variety of companies and I am still waiting to hear from them. I have stagard my emails so that i have more control over when they contact and visits etc. I have put together my portfolio, the birthday card for 23ccc and my business cards. So I am prepared to hear from the companies.
I also managed to speak with my sister over the weekend and she has some contacts in London, well the graphic designers that work for her who is a close friend and she is going to forward my details to get into contact with them. This is great because it means if i do get a placement with them i will be able to stay with my sister, she also said that she would get in contact with other designers she knows and hopefully i will be able to get some more visits down in London.

Emails

Posted by Robyn Russell at 05:36 Labels: OUPD201 Friday, 1 April 2011

I have put together a skeleton email that I intend to use to email some of the companies I am interested in visiting over the next few weeks, or the summer period. I didn’t want to put too much information in them because I wanted it to be quite a short email, and then later we could discuss my work further. Hopefully I will get some feedback from these companies. If not I do plan to follow up with phone calls.

Dear

I am a graphic design student studying at Leeds College of Art. I am contacting you because I would really appreciate your feedback on the samples of work that I have sent you. I am very interested in type and design for print. I would really appreciate the opportunity to have some feedback from experienced professionals such as yourselves. What I really like about your design work is… . Any response would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Robyn Russell

Contact:

Telephone: 07711884585

Email 1: rrusselldesigns@hotmail.com

Email 2: rr83299@student-leeds.ac.uk

(The basic skeleton email)

Dear Mark,

Regards,

Robyn Russell

Contact:

Telephone: 07711884585