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BUSINESS NEWS

Business Centre Celebrates 15 Years

SHORTLISTED FOR NATIONAL AWARD

The Regus centre on Swindon’s Windmill Hill Business Park opened
its doors for business 15 years ago and has seen the profile of its
customer base change dramatically over that time, as companies
demand more flexible facilities to reflect modern ways of doing
business. Today hundreds of local start-ups, growing businesses
and international corporations use the centre, which offers services
including offices on a permanent, shared or part-time basis,
meeting rooms, Virtual Office services and a business lounge.

Alison Edgar, managing director of
Chippenham based Sales Coaching Solutions
has been nominated for a national, Women
Inspiring Women award, in the category of
Women Role Model/Advocate.
The company specialises in sales and
customer service training and business
coaching. Alison employs an all woman team
and has seen exceptional business growth,
taking the annual turnover from £27k to
£123k in just one year.
Sales Coaching Solutions delivered the
government’s Growth Vouchers scheme locally
and created 10 new jobs in the county for
their clients and generated £1m in revenue
Alison was nominated by employee Alex
Elliott after she found the awards promoted
on Twitter. To the team’s delight Alison has

Across its 320 UK locations, Regus has
witnessed the trend for companies to turn
away from traditional leased offices as
they strive to keep overheads down and
work in more productive, modern and
environmentally-conscious ways.
One local firm which has harnessed this
modern approach to workspace is Hoffman
Male, a specialist property law firm based in
offices at Regus in Swindon. Partner Mary
Hoffman said: “We’ve been with Regus for
three years now and one of the greatest
benefits of being based here is flexibility –
we can easily scale up the business, adding
extra desk space when we need it, (which
we have done twice now, due to business
growth,) or use meeting rooms on demand
– only paying for them when we need them.
You don’t have that reassurance with your
own premises.“Regus is absolutely brilliant
for established businesses like us, and it

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is particularly good for start-up and small
businesses. It’s just that one invoice coming
in each month and it’s no hassle. We know
it’s going to be £x every month and that
covers absolutely everything so it’s nice and
easy.”Chris Pullen, managing director of Field
Operations at Regus, said: “We are proud
that the Swindon centre has reached its
fifteenth birthday and I extend my thanks to
the fantastic centre team, who I know are all
incredibly dedicated.
“Attitudes to work and the office have
changed so much over the past 15 years
and we certainly see this reflected by our
customers who are increasingly turning their
backs on the old -fashioned model of long
leases and fixed overheads, in favour of more
agile ways of working. Flexibility has become
the cornerstone of successful business and as
a company we have adapted our services to
accommodate this.”

been shortlisted. The results are entirely votes
driven and Alison and the team are calling
for local support, so that she can represent
Wiltshire in Birmingham this June. To vote for
Alison visit: http://ow.ly/NyoPd

Learn About Mindfulness At Work
Mindfulness is on the agenda at the Swindon
Marriott on Friday June 22 at a gathering of
the Swindon Mindful Employer Network.
Mindfulness@Work explores the
emerging evidence of the workplace
benefits of mindfulness including clearer
thinking, improved decision making, greater
concentration, enhanced creativity and
problem solving, and improved resilience
and reduced stress. Guest speaker is Byron
Lee who is a leadership trainer, coach and

mindfulness teacher. Byron has spent the past
25 years working in the field and his clients
include organisations in the public, voluntary
and private sectors. The Swindon Mindful
Employer Network is managed by Swindon
Mind and the event is sponsored by Swindon
Marriott.
The Business Exchange is a proud media
partner and will be present on the day.
To book your space email
[e-mail]

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