Welcome to the latest newsletter from Clarendon Business Centres. This month, we report on our Spring Party at Fulham Green and we welcome back some previous clients and feature a number of newer client success stories. Don't miss our amazing free Remote Office Service in our Special Offer section this month and remember to take advantage of another excellent Clarendon Wine Offer. Also you should enter our "Spring Growth" competition further down this newsletter - someone always wins so this month it may be you! 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 Sian Davis Bournemouth & Poole Simon Goldsmith Bracknell Centre Manny Aduteye Bromley Centres Candy Woodington Operations Director Julian Cooper Managing Director

Spring Party Is A Great Success At Fulham's Chester House On the 25th of April we held a Spring party at Fulham Green. As part of a themed barbecue, we transformed some of the outside area into a farm, with lambs and chicks making an appearance in their own hay bale area. There was a steady flow of our tenants and some external clients who stopped by to enjoy a light snack and to network with each other. We had great weather and the sunshine and daffodils really added to the atmosphere. Simon and Ernesta from Hawki commented: "It was so pleasant to come to in the morning" and "it was brilliant... when's the next one?!" "It was great to see our clients mixing with each other in such a relaxed and informal setting in their own grounds", says Clarendon's Ammisha Shepherd. "We know from our experience at our other venues, that our clients sharing serviced offices form lasting partnerships and can do a great deal of business with each other. With such great outdoor space, Fulham Green has added appeal to business owners who wish to join a community of likeminded entrepreneurs." As well as a fabulous refurbished outside terrace with great grounds for networking and relaxing, Clarendon's Fulham Centre also has an on site Café Plum & Bar and a Gym with changing rooms and showers for your regular work-out sessions. If you are interested in an office at Fulham Green, you will need to act fast, so do telephone Ammisha Shepherd on 0203 542 1300 or email us 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!

Oxford Focus: Inspired Search & Selection Return To Clarendon House Inspired Search & Selection is the premier specialist recruitment consultancy dedicated to serving the publishing industry across all markets - including trade, professional, academic, educational, STM, B2B magazines and Medical Communications, as well as Corporate, Charitable and Society Publications - both in traditional print and digital media. They have been active in the book, journal and digital publishing market since 1999 and place candidates at all levels from entry-level to senior management, including headhunting CEOs, MDs and FDs. Inspired Search & Selection operates in the 'heart' of the publishing industry with dedicated, experienced staff based in offices in London, Oxford and Madrid, serving the global publishing market. They help prospective candidates find the right role in the publishing industry and, at the same time, ensure that their publisher clients find the best talent available for their vacancies and the people who best fit their organisation. Donald Smith, Deputy Managing Director of Digital & Print Publishing Recruitment, comments: "Our company opened its first office here and we are delighted to be back in Oxford's Clarendon House. As a returning client, we have found the levels of service offered by Clarendon Business Centres to be extremely helpful and professional. The reception staff will always 'go the extra mile' and are first class representatives of the services we provide to our candidates and clients. We are looking forward to a long and successful association with Clarendon Business Centres." For more information about Inspired Search & Selection, please visit their website at www.inspiredselection.com or call the Oxford office on 01865 304 029. This Month's App 123D Design Create amazing 3D printable designs, right on your iPad! With Autodesk 123D Design, you can make your own products, parts, or creations. What you design is up to you! Another App next month!

Bracknell Focus: Eurolan Move Into Clarendon's Serviced Offices Eurolan is a leading European full service provider of high performance structured cabling systems, intelligent enclosure technology and data centre solutions. In 2012, Eurolan celebrated their ten year anniversary and is firmly established as the leading structured cabling solution providers within the Northern and Eastern European communication sectors. Eurolan are renowned for both performance and ease of installation. Their core range of products/solutions are: Cat5e/Cat6/Cat6a copper solution combing a full manufactures warranty Fibre OM1,2,3 and 4 full range of components coming with full manufactures warranty 19" enclosures to house all IT equipment, various sizes Alex Hall from Eurolan comments: "During the early part of 2012, Eurolan launched within the UK. Due to the success of the first 12-18 months, we have now taken office space within the Clarendon Business Centre in Bracknell. We chose Clarendon because of their team, who showed the ability to deliver according to our immediate needs as well understanding our longer term vision for EuroLan." To find out more about Eurolan, please contact the UK team on +44 (0)203 603 4099 or visit their website at: www.eurolan.co.uk Did You Know...? Venetian blinds were invented in Japan and French Fries are originally from Belgium...! More pearls of wisdom next month!

Bournemouth & Poole: Seeker News Relaunches As A Free Fortnightly Newspaper Seeker News, the monthly magazine, is making the move to newsprint as it relaunches as a free fortnightly newspaper. Seeker News will print an initial 20,000 newspapers a month to be distributed through major supermarkets in the Bournemouth and Poole area and an existing network of leisure centres, hotels, business parks, entertainment venues, shops, restaurants, cafes, hospitals and libraries. "We're also taking the news on to the high streets, shopping centres and sports grounds to hand out copies and put the news into our readers' hands," says editor Steve Cook, who has built the Seeker brand over the last five years. He launched Seeker News as a website three years ago and published the first issue of the monthly Seeker News magazine in February 2012. "Seeker News will be bright, busy and bubbly. We'll have a smile on our face, but we won't shy away from the big issues that matter to us all. We'll support local businesses, triumph the area's many good causes and continue to offer the same great mix of news, sport, arts and lifestyle stories and features that readers have come to expect from us." As a regular attendee at our business networking events in Voyager House, Steve Cook can recommend Clarendon and our venue and is looking forward to helping our clients promote their businesses across Dorset. For more information about Seeker News, please visit their website at: Seeker News or contact Steve Cook on: 01202 649811. 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!

Bromley Focus: FREE Training Workshops Clarendon Business Centres and Genistar Bromley have teamed up to provide FREE Workshops for small businesses and local people at our Bromley Business Centres. These workshops will include such subjects as Presentation Skills, Communication Skills, Telephone Techniques, the Sales Cycle, Personality Types, Basic NLP for Business, and How Money Works, among many others. On the 26th of April, we held an introductory event over a few glasses of wine and nibbles to encourage our clients to meet and network with their neighbours in both Devonshire House and Kingfisher House. We also took the opportunity to announce the forthcoming training dates that have been organised with Genistar. "It was great to be able to come in and meet the residents," said Andrew Norman of V-Bos, who is currently a remote client but is in the process of upgrading to a Clarendon serviced office. "Our business has grown with Clarendon and we have received good service since we signed up." To enquire about the Bromley training events, call 0208 315 6666 or email us at: bromley@clarendonbc.co.uk.

The Clarendon Wine Club - The Sommelier's Choice! We have teamed up with specialist wine importers Harlington Wine to create the Clarendon Wine Club! Every month, you will receive a superb discount on a selection of wines from award winning growers, exclusively available to our Clarendon clients. As well as monthly deals, all Clarendon clients will receive a permanent 10% discount on all purchases through Harlington Wine, by using this coupon code on the website: CBCWINE Selecting wines to try can be a bit of a minefield so this month we've put together a mixed case selected by some of our top restaurant clients (these are mainly Michelin starred restaurants) and we've called it "The Sommelier's Choice". To claim your Clarendon discount, first click here to go to "Enter Coupon Code" on the Offers webpage. Then enter the code SCC and press "submit", and the website will acknowledge that you've entered a valid code. Now, you can click here to buy The Sommelier's Choice for only £99 including delivery! Cheers!

Clarendon Special Offer: One Month Remote Office - Free! A Clarendon Virtual Office gives you an instant, low cost business presence in one of our 12 locations in Oxford, Abingdon, Bournemouth, Poole, Bromley, Bracknell or Fulham. With a range of Virtual Office Services on offer, including mail handling, overflow telephone answering and inclusive meeting room use, our services can give you a big business image from a small budget. For this month's special offer, you can experience our Remote Office Service free of charge for one month. This offer is available during May 2013, so call us NOW on 0845 0780370 or email: oxford@clarendonbc.co.uk.

Competition Time: Spring Growth Competition! Last Month's Competition Results: Thank you for your entries to our April Fool Competition and congratulations to Thia Braithwaite from Poole to Wool in Voyager House, as she correctly answered that BBC Panorama's April Fool featured spaghetti growing on trees! This month, now the weather has warmed up, if you would like to win a £25 M&S voucher to spend on barbecue charcoal, simply answer the following question? "What is the name of the Greek Goddess of spring growth?" Email the answer to: oxford@clarendonbc.co.uk and we'll draw the winner on Friday May 17th 2013.

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 Poole. 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.