Welcome to our February 2014 newsletter. This month, we announce the opening of the new gym in our Fulham Green offices, so our clients can continue their New Year's resolutions in style. As usual, we feature more success stories from our resident clients, but, this month, these really show the different ways that we help our clients: We have a client who has been based in one of our Business Centres for over seven years, a client who only needed us for a few months, and a client who uses our Virtual Office facilities - we have something for everyone! Don't miss our cost busting Meeting Room Offer in our Special Offer section this month and remember to enter our competition - this month, you may win the £25 voucher! Please call us for a chat on 0845 0780370 or email us at: oxford@clarendonbc.co.uk. Chris Hooton Editor, The Clarendon Natasha Turner Oxfordshire Area Tia Colledge (for Sian) Bournemouth & Poole Simon Goldsmith Bracknell Centre Charlene Gunn Bromley Centre Angela Jude Fulham Centre Candy Woodington Operations Director Julian Cooper Managing Director

"Fulham Fit" - The New Gym At Our Fulham Green Site Is Open! Clarendon Business Centres are delighted to announce the opening of "Fulham Fit", the new gym at our Fulham Green site. Situated in the spacious loft of Chester House with spectacular views across London, Fulham Fit offers an escape from office life to Fulham Green's tenants. Whilst the traditional gym provides a cutting-edge urban workout space, we are also offering a wide range of classes from calming yoga to high-energy spin. Fulham Fit has been kitted out with the ultimate Technogym equipment (the highest specification 'Artis' range) and Technogym's brand spanking new spin bikes are installed and raring to go in our very own spin studio. Gym Membership is completely free of charge to all of our current Fulham Green customers - new and old! There are also a wide range of attractively-priced classes on offer within the separate 'studio' space. These classes are led by Fulham Fit's experienced and friendly instructors and are held at convenient times to suit your busy lifestyles. Group sizes will be limited to 5 to 8 clients, depending on the type of class. "This is a welcome addition to our current offerings for the Roof Terrace, Garden Breakout areas, Putting Green, Croquet Lawn and Open Air Cinema," says Angela Jude, Clarendon's Fulham Centre Manager. "And now we all have the perfect opportunity to continue those healthy New Year's Resolutions!" To enquire about space in Fulham Green please contact Angela Jude on: 0203 542 1300 or email her at: fulhamgreen@clarendonbc.co.uk. Don't Miss Out! There is so much more going on at Clarendon than we can communicate in a monthly newsletter! So for more offers, competitions and news snippets, please make sure that you are following us on our various social media platforms... Click below!

Bromley Focus: Mansfield & Chaston Limited Mansfield & Chaston Limited is a new law firm set up to target the Defendant Insurer market and small to medium sized enterprises. They provide a specialist and comprehensive dispute resolution service for the insurance sector in relation to high value and catastrophic injury claims. These claims will be handled by Mark Chaston, the Owner and Director, Claire Horne, his Assistant Solicitor, and Lisa Richards, Chartered Legal Executive, who have specialist expertise in running the most complex of high value cases. They also offer tailored business packages for small and medium sized enterprises to include HR advice, employment law advice and company law advice, for example. These packages are designed to help businesses access affordable legal advice specifically designed to suit their needs. "As we are a new firm, we needed a professional image from day one," says Mark Chaston, the Owner and Director, "and Clarendon Business Centres provided the perfect solution with the office address, post collection and telephone answering services in our own firm's name." "Furthermore, the potential to be able to move into an office unit when the time is right for our firm also appealed and reduces additional costs such as redirecting telephones and amending our stationery." To find out more about our services, please call Mark and the team on 0208 315 6526. This Month's App Workdays Free Workdays Free is the ad supported version of Workdays for the iPhone. It is the essential date calculator for any working professional. Another App next month!

Bournemouth Focus: Document Archive, Retrieval or Shredding Services Maidman's offer secure paper shedding and document destruction services, protecting your business from identity theft and fraud, and also an archive storage & retrieval facility for documents you need to keep safe and secure. They provide shredding sacks with numbered security seals for their clients to fill. These sacks are then collected and transported directly to their secure shredding area nearby in Castlepoint where they are destroyed. Once this has been completed a "Certificate of Destruction" is issued, providing a complete audit trail. They are a local company and all shredded paper is sent for recycling so it is a completely green solution and reduces the impact on the environment. They also have an archive storage & retrieval facility, which stores files and paperwork on behalf of many and varied clients such as solicitors, accountants, doctors surgeries and other organisations, where paperwork has to be kept for a certain period. They also provide a file retrieval service and deliver and collect files free of charge for their clients. "The Clarendon set up is so professional", says David Mayell of Maidman's, "The offices are modern and impressive and the staff are really friendly. We really like being here!" This month, Maidman's have a special promotion for Clarendon readers. Costs start from only £4 plus VAT per sack for shredding and from only £10 plus VAT per week for storage of up to 80 cartons! This offer expires on 31/04/2014 so please contact David for more information on 01202 530 901, or email him on: david.mayell@maidmans.com. Did You Know...? In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who would be their Valentine. They would wear this name pinned onto their sleeves for one week for everyone to see. Apparently, this was the origin of the expression "to wear your heart on your sleeve." More pearls of wisdom next month!

Bracknell Focus: PrecisionPoint Celebrate Seven Years In Abbey House Anyone involved with closing the month or year-end accounts knows how painful the process can be. Financial Professionals need to reduce the time spent processing routine data, get meaningful and accurate data out of Microsoft Dynamics, and deliver the key information to the people who influence the business results. PrecisionPoint is the only BI and Reporting solution that has been designed and built to address these issues. The solution was created by accounting professionals who are also experts in Microsoft Dynamics. The primary objective is to empower finance and business users with accurate and consistent information that they can trust and use to make better decisions. Therefore, time consuming manual processes, that are prone to error, can be automated and streamlined and business queries can be answered quickly, inexpensively and with complete confidence in the data. "It a clean, unpretentious and well maintained office that is extremely well run", says PrecisionPoint's David Stokes. "The Clarendon team are friendly, efficient and prompt in dealing with issues and are keen to go the extra mile to fulfil any request - when you work in a fast growing business (our customer base has quadrupled in the last five years) you have enough to worry about!" "Clarendon takes care of our customer calls, meeting facilities, parking, postage, message taking, technology infrastructure, food, drink and a whole heap more. It's the Clarendon people based in the building that turns a good office into a great one." To find out more about PrecisionPoint, please visit www.precision-point.com or email David at: David.Stokes@precision-point.com. Where's The Bear? If you know where Barney the Bear is, email us at: oxford@clarendonbc.co.uk and one lucky person will win a bottle of wine!

Oxfordshire Focus: Helping Family First Solicitors On A Month By Month Basis Family First Solicitors is a law practice offering specialist family law advice and is committed to the constructive resolution of family disputes. In April 2013, they moved into Oxfordshire's Belsyre Court Business Centre temporarily as part of their planned migration into their conventional new office space. They were only expecting to stay with Clarendon for a few months. However, there were delays with their new offices and Clarendon were able to support and help Family First Solicitors on a month by month basis. We provided a backbone and stability in a time where they needed it the most. "We needed office space quickly when the business was able to start earlier than anticipated," said Ursula Rice. "Clarendon sorted us out within 24 hours and, from the very first point of contact, I felt I was in capable, competent but friendly hands. They are very professional and organised but the family-run feeling is evident in all they do - from Esme's warm welcome to the impeccably clean offices and public rooms." "As a law practice, a certain level of presentation is essential. Clarendon Business Centres fulfil that and more, at an extremely reasonable price. I have no hesitation in commending the offices to other businesses." To find out more about their family dispute resolution services, visit their website at: www.familyfirstsolicitors.co.uk To view our beautiful Oxfordshire offices, call Natasha and her team on: 0845 0780370 or email us at: oxford@clarendonbc.co.uk.

Clarendon Wine Club: Spectacular Bargains In Our Bin End Sale! We have teamed up with specialist wine importers Trailblazing Wine to create the Clarendon Wine Club! We always have stock over from Christmas that we're keen to sell through at the beginning of the year to make way for the new wines! So this month, we have an exciting promotional offer from now until the end of February 2014. The wine quantities indicated are stocks we have available at time of publication. Where a wine is marked "bin-end" these quantities indicated are all that is available. Where a wine is not marked "bin-end", there may be plenty more wine available but not at these amazingly Special Prices! Click here to browse the PDF of our spectacular Bin-End Bargains! Bottoms Up!

Clarendon Special Offer: 50% Off Your First Meeting Room Booking! For this month's special offer, when you book your first meeting room (at any centre) you will receive: 50% off the normal fees on production of this Meeting Room Voucher. Click here to download your Meeting Room Voucher. This offer is available during February 2014, so book your meeting room now. For other offers, please contact the Business Centre of your choice and ask for their current promotions.

Competition Time: Valentine's Competition! Last Month's Competition Results: Thank you for your entries to our Auld Lang Syne Competition and congratulations to Helene Schaefer based in Oxford's Prama House, as she correctly answered that the phrase "auld lang syne" means "old long-since" - in other words "a long time ago..." This month, if you would like to win a £25 M&S voucher to spend on ickle teddy bears and mountains of chocolate, you need to answer the following question... "In which year did Richard Cadbury produce the first box of chocolates for Valentine's Day?" Email the answer to: oxford@clarendonbc.co.uk and we'll draw the winner on Friday February 14th 2014.

About Clarendon Business Centres Clarendon Business Centres provides emerging and established businesses with friendly, hassle free, and cost-effective office space. Clarendon has grown significantly since 1998, and now supplies serviced, managed and virtual office space with modern and well equipped meeting and conference facilities across Oxfordshire, Bournemouth, Bracknell, Bromley and Fulham. Our offices offer instant availability and are fully furnished and cabled. Our flexible approach means that you only pay for space you use, you only commit for the length of term you want, there's no upfront capital expenditure and you can upsize and downsize as needed. Clarendon has a solution for every type of business and every budget, so call us on 0845 0780370.