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Serviced offices in London put you at the global hub of business

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Serviced offices in London give you maintenance-free workspace in the nation’s capital, with all of the benefits a London postcode brings.

It doesn’t get much more central than Serviced Office Company‘s own serviced offices in London, which you’ll find adjacent to Canary Wharf on the Isle of Dogs – an E14 postcode on-demand.

With a business base in London, your office hours overlap with those of Europe, Asia and the US, which means in a typical day, you’ll be trading for at least some of the same hours as 99% of the planet’s GDP.

And even within the UK, there are millions of customers, commuters and investors within easy reach of London, so there’s plenty of opportunity to drive profits and achieve business growth.

The UK on your doorstep

London alone has a combined workforce of over four million people, with most, if not all of the world’s languages represented among its inhabitants and employees.

ONS data shows there are more than half a million registered business enterprises based in London at any one time – equivalent to around one in five of all active companies in the UK – and its new start-up rate eclipses that of any other region, with the surrounding South East in second place.

Whatever your business – whether it’s domestic or has an international focus – serviced offices in London give you access to the audience you need for recruitment, sales and investment alike.

And it’s also home to Crossrail, one of the UK’s most ambitious rail infrastructure projects of recent years, which puts a further 1.5 million people within a 45-minute rail travel time to the capital.

With all of this in mind, serviced offices in London really do put you at the heart of the action, and Serviced Office Company’s location on the Isle of Dogs is among the most prestigious and well connected.

No more north-south divide

Although serviced offices in London are in the south-east of the country, the stronger transport links mean they can still be faster and easier to reach than locations elsewhere in England.

Research by the TUC in 2014 found that nearly 800,000 people who worked in the capital had a two-hour commute – an indication of how many people are willing to travel in order to work there.

But if you are meeting with investors and buyers from the north, you might want to consider hiring a meeting room in Manchester instead.

Manchester Piccadilly is just a two-hour direct train journey from London Euston, with only one stop at Stoke along the way. From Piccadilly it’s a direct Metrolink tram service to our Exchange Quay and MediaCity meeting rooms for hire on an hourly, half-day or daily basis.

The flexibility of serviced offices in London and Manchester, along with meeting rooms to hire in both cities, means you can have a national presence in two of the UK’s biggest business districts.

And thanks to their excellent onward transport connections, including air travel links to every major economy in the world, there’s nothing to stop you conducting business with your customer base, wherever you find growth opportunities.

Rent easily accessible serviced office space in Manchester

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Renting serviced office space in Manchester does not have to mean navigating the city centre every day on your commute to and from work – there are locations that are just minutes away from all of the central transport hubs, yet much more easily accessible.

If you are looking to rent easily accessible serviced office space in Manchester, our locations on Salford Quays are the ideal solution, and are some of the best connected premises you’ll find anywhere in the city.

We have buildings on Exchange Quay and Clippers Quay, both serviced by the Exchange Quay Metrolink stop, and via Trafford Road for anyone arriving by car.

Manchester office space with public transport links

No matter how far your visitors are arriving from – or where your morning commute begins – you’ll struggle to find Manchester office space with public transport links better than ours.

The Metrolink stop is just seconds away from both of our Salford Quays premises, and from there it’s just a few minutes into the city centre for Market Street and Piccadilly Gardens.

You can catch a cab at any time of day or night, travel onwards across Greater Manchester by bus from Piccadilly Gardens, or go via Piccadilly Station for rail travel.

From there it’s a shade over two hours to get to London Euston, while both trams and trains will get you to Manchester Airport for domestic and international flights.

And if you’re commuting locally, we even provide on-site shower rooms so you can freshen up after a morning bike ride into work, whatever the weather conditions outside.

Serviced offices in Manchester with nearby amenities

If the transport links aren’t enough, then again, you’ll find it hard to rent serviced offices in Manchester with nearby amenities that rival those of Exchange Quay and Clippers Quay.

There’s an Ibis hotel adjacent to both – so if you’re not able to travel home you can easily book in to spend the night a stone’s throw away from the office.

And, of course, the MediaCity area is under ongoing development, offering everything from the Lowry Outlet Mall’s shops and restaurants, to the tourist attractions including Imperial War Museum North and the Lowry Theatre.

But there’s no need to go off-site throughout the day, with a kitchen area, complimentary tea and coffee, breakout rooms to relax in, and serviced meeting rooms you can rent by the hour.

Is Salford Quays near Manchester city centre?

Yes it is – closer than much of Manchester, in fact. On the Metrolink it’s just a few minutes, and you can even reach Castlefield and Deansgate on foot by walking along the canal in around 15 minutes.

Exchange Quay is in the M5 postcode district as it’s very slightly closer to the city centre, while Clippers Quay, which is the other side of Trafford Road, gets an M50 MediaCity postcode.

But in a practical sense it is no further away – the M50 district was created relatively recently, because as MediaCity grew, it needed its own postcode within the larger M5 area.

That fact alone is testament to how well established this development has become over the past decade or more, making it a hugely desirable postcode for serviced office space in Manchester.

How big is a serviced meeting room?

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Serviced meeting rooms are a handy way to get some space when you need it to hold job interviews, investor meetings, training seminars and other occasional business events.

But how many people can you fit in a serviced meeting room? If you’ve hired meeting rooms from other providers in the past, you might be used to cramped surroundings where you can barely fit past the other occupants’ chairs.

Serviced Office Company meeting rooms are very different from that grim picture, providing you with a choice of capacity to suit the event you have planned, in spacious, comfortably furnished and completely private rooms.

One on One

For intimate meetings, our smallest meeting rooms are ideal for anywhere from two to four people and are available on an hourly basis – perfect for a job interview or for one or more short sessions with employees.

All meeting room clients also get access to our breakout spaces – less formal areas where you can continue the conversation, so if you run out of time, it doesn’t have to mean the end of your session.

These areas are also available to tenants of our serviced office space, making them a great place to meet fellow entrepreneurs and potentially capitalise on networking opportunities.

Medium-Sized Groups

For medium-sized groups, our ten-person boardroom style meeting rooms are available, giving you a little more space to carry out team meetings or to get all of your managers together in one place.

These are also good areas to hold recruitment days for groups of candidates or to host any visitors who arrive en masse for any reason.

Airy and with attractive views of the surrounding area, these rented meeting rooms are very much not a compromise over our even larger facilities mentioned below.

Conferences and Board Meetings

For the largest groups, we have serviced conference room and boardroom facilities with even greater capacity and a range of equipment to help your session or seminar run smoothly.

Take our Exchange Quay meeting room facilities in Manchester as an example:

  • 30-person boardroom or 70-person theatre-style rooms.
  • Available on half-day and full-day hire.
  • Complimentary refreshments included.
  • LCD projector or plasma screen in each room.
  • Additional audiovisual equipment available to hire.

As with all of our serviced offices and meeting rooms in Manchester and London, these spaces come fully furnished with designer office furniture, so your guests should feel comfortable even over the course of a full-day meeting.

What size meeting room do I need?

As you may have guessed, it really depends on the number of people you expect to attend; however, there’s nothing to stop you from choosing a ten-person boardroom-style space for smaller meetings.

While we have made sure every room has sufficient space and comfortable furnishings, ‘trading up’ in this way can help to make a statement to your visitors, as well as giving everyone a little extra breathing space.

If you’re still not sure what size meeting room to hire, just get in touch and let us know what you have planned, and we will be happy to advise on the right size of rented meeting room space for what you need.

Find the perfect serviced office in Canary Wharf, London

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If you want prime real estate in central London, you might expect to pay a premium – but with a serviced office in Canary Wharf, London is on your doorstep without the same upfront costs or ongoing maintenance.

Serviced Office Company’s Davenport House location is a great way to get office space on the Isle of Dogs with plenty of competitive features, but also at competitive rates.

We provide you with office space furnished to a high standard and with the essential fixtures and fittings you would expect to be able to move in immediately, but we don’t put our own branding on your space, which means you are free to complete the look with your own signage and logos.

This means when you rent a serviced office in Canary Wharf, London, you really do get a central London office that you can welcome clients and investors to as though it were owned outright.

Where are our serviced offices in Canary Wharf, London?

You’ll find us at Davenport House, 16 Pepper Street, Glengall Bridge, London E14 9RP – and you’re more than welcome to look us up on Google Maps or put our postcode into your satnav.

We offer close proximity to Canary Wharf, which is also the nearest Tube station, while the DLR stops two minutes away at Crossharbour.

For investors arriving from further afield, there’s London City Airport just a few miles to the east, and the chance to pay a visit to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park a short distance to the north of Canary Wharf.

As a location, it’s hard to beat. You get an E14 postcode and proximity to some of the world’s biggest businesses at Canary Wharf, all with the economic advantages of serviced office space and a great waterfront position.

What do I get in a serviced office in Canary Wharf, London?

We aim to provide you with the best possible office space, taking into account the priorities that modern businesses face in the 21st century.

That means we are able to offer carbon-neutral offices – some of the ‘greenest’ in the capital, while still being equipped with comforts like air conditioning.

Along with the unbranded interiors, you get direct telephone numbers, so callers don’t have to go through a communal reception desk, and the option to rent meeting rooms and conference facilities as and when you need them, on-site.

There are free refreshments on-site too, as well as a good number of coffee shops, pubs, restaurants and shops in the surrounding area, so you’re never far away from food or drink, or other essential supplies.

When it comes down to the hard work itself, you get non-BT telecommunications fully capable of keeping pace with future developments in ultra-fast business broadband.

And with office furnishings from Mirra Chairs, Sense Desking and Herman Miller, plus conference rooms furnished by Sedus and Humanscale, our interiors not only look the part, but provide ergonomic workspaces that will help to keep your team feeling comfortable over the course of a long hard day at work.

It’s our ten-year anniversary!

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Serviced Office Company are proud to celebrate a full decade of providing well-appointed serviced office space in London and Manchester, along with meeting rooms in MediaCity, Salford Quays and our Canary Wharf location on the Isle of Dogs.

As we celebrate our ten-year anniversary, it’s a good time to look back on how things have changed around our serviced offices in Manchester and London.

Our serviced offices in Salford Quays

Up north, Exchange Quay – where you’ll find our serviced offices in Salford Quays – has seen quite the transformation.

In the summer of 2015, the roads and parking around the Quay were redesigned to make them much more pedestrian-friendly, including the addition of verges, trees and other greenery.

The result is a much more welcoming approach whether you arrive by car or on foot – and with the Metrolink just moments away, plenty of people choose that option when travelling via Manchester city centre.

Our meeting rooms in MediaCity

Our Clippers Quay location provides our serviced offices, conference facilities and meeting rooms in MediaCity, and while the location itself hasn’t changed too much, MediaCity as a whole continues to go from strength to strength.

The BBC officially started filming at MediaCity in early 2011, with ITV following shortly after, and of course this is where you will now find the outdoor set for Coronation Street, having moved from its previous location at Granada Studios in Manchester city centre.

MediaCity has been served by its own spur of the Metrolink network since autumn 2010, with links into Manchester city centre and to nearby Cornbrook, where passengers can change services if required.

Our location in London

Finally in London, one of the biggest developments during the past decade was the redevelopment of Stratford for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

At about three miles north of our serviced offices in Canary Wharf, the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is a valuable addition to the local landscape, with the stadium and the ArcelorMittal Orbit both serving as signposts for anyone trying to navigate to our Pepper Street building on the Isle of Dogs.

We’re thrilled to be able to continue to offer such desirable locations, with Davenport House delivering not just proximity to Canary Wharf and the Olympic Park, but some timeless views across the River Thames too.

Here’s to the next ten!

Finally, a thank you to our loyal customers and readers of our news posts, which we have published throughout the past ten years.

From tips on how to improve your office chair, to keeping your cup of coffee warm for longer, to some of the weirdest ideas for how to hold meetings with colleagues, we’ve brought you insights you just wouldn’t get from anywhere else.

As we look to the future, we aim to continue to offer this unique mix of expertise and excellent office spaces, conference facilities and meeting rooms in some of the UK’s most desirable city locations.

This past decade has been a true pleasure – and one we hope to see continue for many more years to come, thanks to the support of our hard-working tenants and customers.

What makes our serviced offices in Manchester such a flexible solution?

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If you’re looking for serviced offices in Manchester, the Serviced Office Company have flexible solutions for you, ranging from virtual offices and serviced office space, to meeting rooms and conference facilities on a case-by-case rental basis. Continue reading “What makes our serviced offices in Manchester such a flexible solution?”

Be part of the action with a serviced office in MediaCityUK

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A serviced office in MediaCityUK puts you at the heart of an area that is both well established and yet still rapidly developing all the time – one of the hallmarks of the wider Salford Quays business community over many years now. Continue reading “Be part of the action with a serviced office in MediaCityUK”

Why choose our Meeting Rooms in Manchester?

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What do you look for when you book meeting rooms in Manchester? A city centre location, perhaps, or an M1 postcode, but in fact these things can make your venue less easily accessible – and much of the city’s big business doesn’t take place in the heart of the city centre anyway.

For a more welcoming meeting room in Manchester’s up-and-coming areas, look to our premises on Salford Quays, with a choice between a desirable M5 postcode on Exchange Quay and our stunning MediaCity facilities at Clippers House on Clippers Quay.

Both offer excellent access via private and public transport alike, with Metrolink stops moments away, and are much more conveniently placed for the ring road when arriving by car along the M60 and M602.

Why force your guests to navigate the awkward one-way streets of Manchester city centre, the ever-decreasing number of road routes that actually allow you to cross the central business district, and the practically non-existent free parking?

Our meeting rooms in Manchester give you the spacious views of Salford Quays, looking out over the water, with well appointed interiors that include formal spaces for business meetings and comfortable, plush waiting areas so nobody is irritable by the time the meeting gets underway.

And we’re easy to find on Google Maps, so there’s no need to worry about giving people directions to the venue – you can even take a virtual tour of our Clippers Quay interiors with Google StreetView ‘Photo Spheres’ of our reception areas and some of our meeting rooms and serviced offices.

MediaCity or Exchange Quay?

Ultimately your choice of the best meeting rooms in Manchester is down to what suits your business – for obvious reasons, a MediaCity meeting room will sound better on paper for companies in media, marketing and similar industries.

But it’s worth taking a look at Clippers Quay and Exchange Quay on a map as, despite the very different M5 and M50 postcodes, they are just moments away from each other, either side of Trafford Road, and visitors using the Metrolink will get the Exchange Quay stop either way.

Exchange Quay is perhaps the slightly easier to find, as we’re in the glass Imperial Court Building 2 right alongside Trafford Road, so there’s no need to navigate the roads of the Quay itself.

On Clippers Quay, opposite our serviced offices and meeting rooms are in Clippers House, right on the spur of the Quay looking out over South Bay and the quirky local landmark Gnome Island – a definite icebreaker if one is needed!

Having two locations in close proximity means we are doubly likely to have meeting rooms available in Manchester when you need them most – so if one address is unavailable, we may still be able to accommodate you just across Trafford Road.

You may even want to book meeting rooms in both locations for different times of day – giving you a prime M5 postcode for meetings with a firm Manchester focus, before crossing the road to the MediaCity venue for discussions with broadcasters, producers, media and marketing clients.